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As Earth becomes warmer, there is more melting of glaciers and polar ice caps. How do you think the melting of these fresh water sources might affect ocean currents?
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As Earth becomes warmer, there is more melting of glaciers and polar ice caps. How do you think the melting of these fresh water sources might affect ocean currents?

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The water will double and it would be flooded
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Melting land ice, like mountain glaciers and the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, will change the Earth's rotation only if the melt water flows into the oceans. ... Melting sea ice, such as the Arctic ice cap, does not change sea level because the ice displaces its volume and, hence, does not change the Earth's rotation.

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