Okay, let's take a closer look at each of your explanations...
1) thermal expansion of sea water as it warms up...
There is absolutely no credible evidence that the entire water surface of this planet rises at all other than the daily in and outgoing tides... there have been tsunamis and underwater earthquakes that temporarily move enormous amounts of water, but there is absolutely no evidence anywhere that so called thermal expansion exists anywhere...
Kindly show me any credible evidence, I doubt you can...
2) changes in the amount of water stored on land...
Kindly explain to what you're referring???
Are you suggesting that lakes, rivers, streams, and so on causes the planet's surface waters to rise to such a degree that coastal cities and towns are flooded???
Sure, rivers and streams empty into the oceans, but the ocean waters also evaporate and then come down in the form of rain on both sea and land... that water is constantly being recycled and widely dispersed...
There is no logic or any credible evidence to support such an unfounded claim that land water causes oceans to rise...
Believing such a thing is more of a religion, it's believed only on faith and without any credible evidence...
3) melting of land ice...
I can PROVE right here and now that melting land ice does not raise the ocean levels, not even by one single drop of water, and here's the proof:
Take a large (or small) empty glass and fill it up with ice, you can use ice cubes or crushed ice, it makes no difference... fill it over the top so the ice rises well above the rim of the glass... be sure to keep adding more and more ice until you have a small mountain of ice rising well above the rim of the glass...
Now, set that glass on the kitchen table and let the ice melt completely, this may take several hours...
If your claim is true and valid, then when all the ice melted we should see the water spill over the rim of that glass...
But, when you return to that glass which was overloaded with ice which is now completely melted, you will find that not one single drop of melted ice spilled over the top of that glass, in fact the glass in not even full of water...
The theory that melting land ice raises the level of ocean water is completely debunked...
When water is frozen and forms into ice, that water expands, so the volume of water is much larger when it freezes...
As ice melts, the volume of water contracts, therefore no matter how over full you stack the ice in that glass, when the ice melts it will never overflow that glass and the melting land ice will never increase, not even by one single drop, the level of any of the great oceans... that's just an absurd notion and has now been debunked with an elementary school experiment...
Kindly tell me the defect in the above experiment which I suggest you try at home to test for yourself...
I await your reply...
GZ |
