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With COP26 fast approaching, a new children's book which celebrates the life of a Scotsman whose discoveries shed new light on climate…

Matt Palmer/Unsplash The gravitational changes when Antarctica melts do indeed affect sea levels all over the world – but not enough to save New Zealand from rising seas. “First, the addition to the sea occasioned by the melting of the ice from off the Antarctic land would tend to raise the general level of the sea. “Secondly, the removal of the ice would also tend to shift the Earth’s centre of gravity to the north of its present position – and as the sea must shift along with the centre, a rise of the sea on the northern hemisphere would necessarily take place.”

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz I’ve heard the gravity changes when Antarctica melts will lower the seas around New Zealand. Will that save us from sea level rise? The gravitational changes when Antarctica melts do indeed affect sea levels all over the world — but not enough to save New Zealand from rising seas. The ice ages and their effects on sea level, geology, ...