re: #206 jaunte

I think what he’s saying is that the mass of the Antarctic ice sheets exerts a gravitational pull on the seawater surrounding, so that it is pulled ‘up’ by a certain amount (not defined in the article). When the ice melts, less mass= less gravitational attraction, resulting in lower local sea-levels, but the water then goes elsewhere around the globe, raising the level.

Ice is less dense than water.