Why would ice caps melting cause sea levels to rise? Wouldn’t the water just be replacing what the caps were displacing?
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First, a bunch of the world’s ice is on land, not on water, so it’s not just replacing ice water with liquid water, it’s actually adding more water to the ocean. Second, and this is not directly part of your question, but heat makes things expand, so increased global warming (which is what’s causing ice caps to melt) will cause all the water in the world’s oceans to expand which means sea level rise.
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