And the Antarctic ice shelf? Or the Greenland ice sheet? Baffin Island, Ellesmere Island, and other such places, with huge ice shelves breaking off ("An ancient ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields that broke off Ellesmere Island could be dangerous when it starts to drift in the spring, a scientist says."--CNC News, Dec. 2006)? Alaskan glaciers such as the Mendenhall?

When these bodies of ice melt, the water goes directly into the oceans.

Don Firth