Discussion
State whether the following is true or false.
Melting of floating sea ice raises global sea level substantially.
Answer: D
Floating ice already displaces its own weight of water, so its melting changes the level hardly at all. Land based ice is the component that matters for sea level. Archimedes settles the question. Expansion dominated the twentieth century rise.
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