We all would be watch this every night on the nightly news> LOL 24 hour cable outlets would be leading with this story! New reports from airplanes flying by recording the damage to the oceans! Brackish water killing off all marine life. The question which will close the argument is! Show me the water?
Just start shoveling dirt into the oceans.
Using the previous post calculations
Off topic, but I read recently that there are more hydrogen atoms in a single teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water on Earth (including all oceans, lakes, rivers, streams, ponds, glaciers, icecaps, in the atmosphere, etc.
That’s cool.
There are two types of ice. Floating ice and ice on top of land. Only the later melting will raise the sea level.
Well, the calculations for rainfall over surface area could be used— if one could determine the total surface area of the worlds oceans. but like your Niagra Falls based calculation for the visual effect of 2,620 connected Falls output... to produce one inch raising.
Notionally, of course the very concept of melting ice caps raising water levels (but only in certain places... heh) is absurd. If they completely melted, both of them, and the ice quantity accurately figured— maybe 3, 4 inches and that would have to be everywhere— all shorelines.
Just take Algore down for a swim. That’s how he got started down this very profitable road.
You would at least need more than enough
I think if you throw Rosie O’Donnell into the ocean it will rise by at least two inches.
Sounds right. But only takes 1/1024 of possible DNA relationship to be a Cherokee.
Ican’t Tell you how much water would be required but I CAN tell you how many dollars the Democrats will claim they need to prevent it.
I hear that sea levels are rising the fastest in Florida!
I’m not kidding, I had people in my family asking about it on FB after reading it was true.
Archimedes rolls in his grave.
Have you controlled for the rise and fall of various land masses due to seismic shifts and volcanic activity during the period you’re trying to raise the oceans - have you accounted for differential ice formation and melt during the same period - how ‘bout spikes in sunspot activity while you’re trying to get that raise - and don’t forget the inaccuracies in the calculation of the temperature rise equilibrium sensitivity that suggests the CO2 effect is only half what the warmists are trying to peddle......
If I am understanding what you wrote, you are calculating how many falls similar to Niagara it would take to raise the oceans one inch IN ONE YEAR.
Another way of saying that is that it would require 2,620 years for enough water to flow down Niagara Falls to raise the oceans one inch.
The catch there would be that I don't know that the watershed feeding Niagara contains that much water. If not, then the watershed would have to be replenished by rain occasionally. That rain water would then have to come from, you guessed it, the oceans.
This then suggests that one way to stop the rise of the oceans would be to build a dam to stop Niagara Falls. I'll let you calculate how large the lake behind the dam would have to be.
Who knew that solving global warming could be so much fun.
You would have to include some factor for land area.
The land surface is not impenetrable. Water can seep in and raise the water table.
“Say I want to raise the sea level one inch, how much water do I need?”
Climate “scientists” claim the oceans are rising not so much from melting ice but from thermal expansion caused by warming waters.
In terms of time it would take the Niagara flow rate roughly 30,000 years to raise the oceans 1 inch. By then we’ll be in another ice age.
For the ice to melt there must be warming. There was warming during the Middle Ages, which Michael Mann conviently omitted from his temperature graphs. The Earth warmed between 1 and 1.5 degrees Celsius.Yet the human population prospered in those years. There were no reports of coastal towns going under water.
Here’s another angle for you to this question since you got me interested in playing with some math….specifically as it relates to the thermal expansion of water.
A temperature of 39.2 happens to be the point where water is the most dense (8.3452 lb/gallon). This also happens to be very close to what various scientists have determined is the overall average temperature of the oceans. Let’s assume the ocean average temperature climbed 0.8 degree to an even 40 degrees F. At this temperature, the weight of the water would be 8.3450 lb/gallon or to put it another way, if a gallon of water was originally at 39.2 degrees F and it was allowed to warm to 40 degrees F, it would occupy a volume that is approximately 1.00002 x larger than its original volume of one gallon. The average depth of the ocean per NOAA is 12,080 feet. Let’s say the entire ocean went up in temperature by 0.8 degrees F. This would increase the volume such that it would rise to an average height of 12,080.24 feet….. in other words, about 3 inches. This of course does not take into account that any rise in water would be spread out so it actually would be less.
So to follow up my post 29,if you want to raise the entire ocean by 1 inch, you would need to increase its average temperature by 0.8/3 or approximately 1/4 degree F....
Would the Earth’s circumference go up 6” if the oceans rose 1”?