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Originally posted by TheRedneck
The ocean surface is roughly 2/3 of that, or 130,000,000 square miles, leaving 66,000,000 square miles of land. In order for the ocean levels to rise by 4.5 feet worldwide, an amount of ice equal to the water in 110,800 cubic miles would have to melt....
...There's not that much land-based ice in Antarctica!
Now, someone is saying that Greenland (smaller than Antarctica) is going to melt and raise sea levels by 7m instead of 1.5m. It's not physically possible!
Originally posted by TheRedneck
This is why I state that Global Warming is bull. There is no science involved in such ludicrous claims, and I can disprove them with hard math in a few moments without the aid of multi-million dollar governmental grants and fancy computer models. All I need is a calculator (or a pen and paper, really), and a moment to think. And I'm a redneck!
Source: en.wikipedia.org...
Averaging at least 1.6 km thick, the ice is so massive that it has depressed the continental bedrock in some areas more than 2.5 km below sea level; subglacial lakes of liquid water also occur (e.g., Lake Vostok). Ice shelves and rises populate the ice sheet on the periphery.
Originally posted by TheRedneck
Greenland still cannot raise the sea levels by 23 feet.
BSIBSO
TheRedneck
The ocean surface is roughly 2/3 of that, or 130,000,000 square miles, leaving 66,000,000 square miles of land. In order for the ocean levels to rise by 4.5 feet worldwide, an amount of ice equal to the water in 110,800 cubic miles would have to melt....
Originally posted by Demandred
oh its getting colder i hear you say .. so thats why i was walking around in shorts and a singlet in what was supposed to be the middle of winter .. actually what winter the temp barley droped below 35/c
colder ... heh its the biggest joke ive heard in a long time
Originally posted by majestictwo
reply to post by melatonin
Mel - did i read recently where a submerged mountain range was found under what was thought to be floating ice? I think there is a expedition on a field discovery trip to check it out. This ice may be land based. I’ve no idea where I read this perhaps someone else knows