It will outlast us. and then it will take over the world again. And if it doesn’t wipe out human societies, it will transform them in such a profound way that they will be nothing like what they are now.
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Ice moves to lower regions of the ice sheet and towards the margins where it melts or flows into the sea. So the ice flows into the ocean as water or as ice. There, it can cause a rise in sea level.
H.G.The interaction between the ocean + the ice sheets. → The biggest uncertainty concerning future changes in sea level is related to how the ocean would influence the ice sheets, especially under the current conditions of global climate change.