Better predictions on rise of oceans on warming Earth – The Harvard Gazette
![Early Melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet (by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center CC BY 2.0 via Flickr)](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/33354485670_2f05567deb_c.jpg)
When glacial ice sheets melt, something counterintuitive happens to sea levels…they fall…Why? The answer is that water disperses away owing to the loss of gravitational pull toward the ice sheet.