Re: Radio 5 (Was Arctic ice 'disappearing fast' ?)

Felly sgrifennodd Dave Wheeler <dave.wheeler@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>A floating body displaces its own weight of liquid.

Yes, but it doesn't displace its own volume. That was the point of the
original:

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>> On my drive home from work around 5:15 pm a reporter tried to state
>> that a given volume of water would be exactly the same as the same
>> volume of Ice if melted. So much bad science in the media.

Adrian
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