If water expands when it freezes and ice contracts when it melts, shouldn’t icebergs/ice caps melting bring the water level down?

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Especially since most of an iceberg is under water.

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Sea ice melting doesn’t change the sea level, it’s already accounted for since it’s floating in the water.

The concern is that large volumes of glacier ice on Greenland and Antarctica will melt on land and then flow into the ocean.

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