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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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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Most of the ice we are worried about is ice that is on land.

That’s actually what an ice *cap* means as opposed to an ice*berg*

Ice thats currently on land melting into the ocean means there’s now more water in the ocean.

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