To improve the French economy, Colbert recommended a program that historians have labeled mercantilism, in which French placed heavy taxes on imported goods and used state money to support the creation of new manufacturing companies. How would this program address Colbert’s concerns?

Well , the volume of water they displace as ice is the same as the volume of water they add to the ocean when they melt so it does NOT rise when the sea ice melts. So I believe it’s the second one and all scientists agree that global warming is caused mainly by human active so I do not know about everyone else since there are some stubborn people out there that believe it’s not there fault.