Re:Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong
by chrischen on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @08:47AM
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It floats, so it bulges out from the earth, shifting that mass away from perfect center. Given that it’s not liquid, it bulges out non uniformly in one direction and biases center of mass in one specific direction. It also doesn’t matter too much that it’s not particularly high, as it it covers a large area in the general direction. Anything on the northern hemisphere would bias center of mass in that direction.
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