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jeepinmatt said:
"These two ice masses combined hold enough frozen water to raise global mean sea level by 65 meters if they were to suddenly melt."
Uh, wut?
That's 213ft. And there's a metric shit ton more surface of the earth that is sea instead of land. Without doing any math, this is clearly way off, and total fear mongering.
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Apparently it is true.

How would sea level change if glaciers melted?

There are mountains of ice 10,000 ft high on Antarctica.
 
jeepinmatt said:
"These two ice masses combined hold enough frozen water to raise global mean sea level by 65 meters if they were to suddenly melt."
Uh, wut?
That's 213ft. And there's a metric shit ton more surface of the earth that is sea instead of land. Without doing any math, this is clearly way off, and total fear mongering.
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Actually thats about right.
Those two masses hold something like 90% of all of the fresh water in the world. Remember, we are talking about a continent of mass, with peaks miles high, and the majority of it hidden beliw the ocean surface.
Sea level rise from melting glaciers is a very real thing.

Now.... its not going to happen all at once, as that statement implies; every year, some melts, thenvsone re-freezes back on, so thecshort term loss is much worse than the long term.
Also, theres clearly been some conflation between melting of a specific ice shelf body, as originally described in the article, and the whoke continental body.
 
drkelly said:
Apparently it is true.

How would sea level change if glaciers melted?

There are mountains of ice 10,000 ft high on Antarctica.
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RatLabGuy said:
Actually thats about right.
Those two masses hold something like 90% of all of the fresh water in the world. Remember, we are talking about a continent of mass, with peaks miles high, and the majority of it hidden beliw the ocean surface.
Sea level rise from melting glaciers is a very real thing.

Now.... its not going to happen all at once, as that statement implies; every year, some melts, thenvsone re-freezes back on, so thecshort term loss is much worse than the long term.
Also, theres clearly been some conflation between melting of a specific ice shelf body, as originally described in the article, and the whoke continental body.
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If I find some time, I'll crunch some rough order of magnitude numbers, but I believe Antarctica is something like 5 million square miles, and the oceans are 150 million. Plus, if sea level rises even a few feet, the surface area of the ocean expands, requiring more volume to effect the same rise. I guess the bottom line is that I just don't trust agenda science.
 
jeepinmatt said:
If I find some time, I'll crunch some rough order of magnitude numbers, but I believe Antarctica is something like 5 million square miles, and the oceans are 150 million. Plus, if sea level rises even a few feet, the surface area of the ocean expands, requiring more volume to effect the same rise. I guess the bottom line is that



" .......I just don't trust agenda science."
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...especially when the scientists and politicians are seeking to make $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ off the regulations and bans etc. and using scare tactics to force it on the peons. The world has had booms and busts forever w climate,plagues,disease,famine,wars,deforesting,droughts,floods etc.I think the earth can only sustain a finite # of humans, and now and then the there comes a reset.
 
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jeepinmatt said:
If I find some time, I'll crunch some rough order of magnitude numbers, but I believe Antarctica is something like 5 million square miles, and the oceans are 150 million. Plus, if sea level rises even a few feet, the surface area of the ocean expands, requiring more volume to effect the same rise. I guess the bottom line is that I just don't trust agenda science.
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I bet if agenda science told you that motorboating some tig ol' bitties every day made you live longer you'd trust it.
 
Falko said:
I bet if agenda science told you that motorboating some tig ol' bitties every day made you live longer you'd trust it.
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Confirmation bias me to death!
 
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