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Nerdy Fish5/20/2017 3:48:55 pm PDT

re: #78 freetoken

The seed vault is in the Arctic, and while ice loss from Greenland doesn’t raise the sea level in that area - because of gravity redistributing the water southward - the problem eventually for the seed vault will be persistent above freezing temperatures in the summer.

And then the big problem for sea level will be ice loss in Antarctica. Gravity will distribute the water around the world northward. Eventually enough ice will melt from Antarctica to submerge anything less than many meters above current sea level.

Fair enough, and apologies for the misunderstanding - I thought we’d be smart enough not to put a seed vault in the middle of a frickin’ ocean (even one that is usually icebound), just on the principle of security against apocalyptic planetary changes.