Two common assertions: melting sea ice has no effect on global sea level, and alarmists will grasp at every straw in trying to scare us all.
It turns out that they are both wrong.
Robert Grumbine has the details on why melting sea ice does in fact raise sea levels. In a nutshell, what is frozen and what it floats in are not the same. Fresh water is less dense than sea water.
Now the effect is small, but if the scientists who are aware of this are truly just out to scare us out of our research funding, shouldn’t they be scrambling to correct this common misconception?