I feel like I should point out that this wasn't caused by climate change. It was a natural occurrence that happens every so often. Climate change is a serious problem but it didn't cause this one.
Actually as the ice was already floating in the ocean and not on the shelf, the sea levels didn't rise at all. Similar to how if you have ice in a cup, when the ice melts the water level is the same. Ice floating in water displaces as much as it contains.
ugh... the iceberg isn't the direct problem. The problem is, the berg broke off of a shelf that is holding back land ice. The berg breaks off, destabilizing the shelf, which lets the land ice flow into the ocean faster; increasing sea levels faster. The iceberg itself is really only going to bother people shipping stuff and a few research vessels.
Ice on land... not the actual land. Glaciers. The ice sheet acts like a natural dam that keeps the ice on land ON LAND. There is a natural regulation where the size of the ice sheet dictates how much land ice can build up before it forces itself into the ocean. If the sheet becomes thinner, the ice that is ON LAND flows into the ocean faster.
Yet this ice flow is somewhat natural - the amount that flows into the ocean will be replaced by rainfall at somewhat of the same rate. The ice that flows into the ocean may also begin to freeze causing it to harden, upon which more ice will flow/precipitate onto it until a new shelf is built - albeit a weaker one.
You are assuming there will be ice for it to snow on. Snow on ice is the most reflective surface we naturally have... but when the snow gets displaced and melts closer to the equator you get a fraction of that reflection. Ice itself actually sucks at it... since most ice is dirty ice. Soil is dark so obviously it just absorbs it... and snow is much easier to melt closer to the equator so it can't actually reflect anything when it melts before the sun even comes up.
"At somewhat the same rate" no... no it wont. If there are a pool of 100 lego and I'm taking from the pool and making my own pile while you take from my pile and put them back in the pool it should work at the same rate... but the moment I can take lego faster...
Do you have any idea how long it takes to build a glacier? They can't be rebuilt with snowfall when snowfall rates are plummeting. Even right now it would take 500 years of -10 degree F climate to even get glaciers back to what they were in the 60's and 70's.
I know it takes quite a bit of time, but the point is that it will reform over time. My point is that it was a natural occurrence - not necessarily a good one.
This provides some insight. However, it's just one source.
"At somewhat the same rate" no... no it wont. If there are a pool of 100 lego and I'm taking from the pool and making my own pile while you take from my pile and put them back in the pool it should work at the same rate... but the moment I can take lego faster...
Do you have any idea how long it takes to build a glacier? They can't be rebuilt with snowfall when snowfall rates are plummeting. Even right now it would take 500 years of -10 degree F climate to even get glaciers back to what they were in the 60's and 70's.