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Article: Global warming is definitely not a myth!(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
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- Earth Focus One Planet-One Community
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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One of the most common misconceptions about Polar seas is the idea that if ice shelves or icebergs melt, the sea level will automatically rise. This is not true, and 1 will soon explain why. If you are already seething at this point and crying out, well then just let me justify this point first. When I first read about this, even I did not believe a word of it. So I did the experiment and to my surprise it proved the theory correct.
Here is the theory, which might be a little hard to understand if you have not studied this topic in science:
1. Water expands when it freezes, making it less dense. in fact its volume is a little over 9% greater (or density ...