evidence: Almost all of the water on Earth is stored in two places: in the oceans (currently 97 percent of all water) and in glaciers (currently about 2.7 percent). How much water is in the oceans—and thus how high sea level is—largely depends on how much water is trapped in glacial ice. [...] Fifth Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [...] Probabilistic reanalysis of twentieth-century sea-level rise – Carling C. Hay, Eric Morrow, Robert E. Kopp and Jerry X. Mitrovica