Sea Level Rise – Why It Isn't the Same Everywhere

Podcast: Talking Science · Stavros kinnas

Opublikowano: 2026-08-20

In some coastal cities, ordinary high tide on a clear, calm, cloudless day is now enough to send seawater bubbling up through the drains and into the streets, with no storm in sight at all. This episode explains what's really driving global sea level rise, from the warming ocean simply expanding to ice sheets and glaciers adding new water, why melting sea ice doesn't raise sea level at all but melting land ice does, the surprising "gravitational fingerprint" left by shrinking ice sheets, why some coastlines are sinking or rising independently of the ocean itself, how scientists actually measure...