The global warming, and sea level rise being "debated" ignores one simple fact; so I determined to bring it up. Water, like most materials expand when heated; each material has what is called it's coefficient of thermal expansion (C). in the case of water, that coefficient is 0.000207. So, if no more ice melts, we would experience a rise of:
0.000207 X depth in feet For all present depths, assuming an average depth is deeper than 5000', and experiences a temperature rise of five degrees C; each water column then would grow (rise) by 1.0128 feet by just warming alone.
Now you're sayn lookie here Joe, the land would heat too, would it not rise along? Nope, alas, the C for silicon is .000009, 4.34% of water's. The thermal balance (the point were heat radiating from the core matches surface heating along what engineers call "the whiplash curve") is typically at a depth of 10', so the land surface would only rise 0.00009 foot resulting in a relative sea level rise of 1.012791 feet.
And thats the way it goes...