Posted on 12/27/2016 6:49:29 AM PST by rktman
If all of Greenland's ice melted, it would raise sea level ~23 ft. That's enough to put coastlines throughout the world under water. pic.twitter.com/0C5fpTRhdl
— NASA Climate (@NASAClimate) December 13, 2016
The tweet above is from @NASAClimate, a real official account from the real government organization that shoots rockets. (By the way, serious question: does anyone know why NASA does this instead of NOAA?)
If all of Greenland's ice melted, it would raise sea level ~23 ft. That's enough to put coastlines throughout the world under water.
As a bald statement, it sounds fairly reasonable. I wouldn't disbelieve it if it said anything from 20 to 40 feet; I'd get a bit doubtful if is said 100 feet.
But that said, that's a lot of ice, and melting ice takes a lot of energy. Let's just think about how much.
Ice, along with pretty much everything else, requires a certain amount of heat energy for the solid to turn into a liquid (or must lose a certain amount of heat energy to turn from a liquid back to a solid). This is called the enthalpy of fusion, which is a Greek-root phrase meaning "the amount of energy to turn a solid material into a liquid." It's also sometimes called the latent heat: it's the amount of heat energy lurking in water just by virtue of the water being liquid.
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Frankly, nearly ALL of NASA’s funding should be pulled and the money that was being spent programmed for bounties on measureable successful performance goals and accomplishment set forth as bounties paid to commercial participants who succeed in these goals.
No more funding of lofty goals and wishlists because somebody else (taxpayer) has the money (or doesn’t). Make them spend their own money and reap the rewards after they succeed. Screw NASA.
So what? It has happened before. It will happen again.
Sheesh!
I didn’t know the US and Most of the World was UNDER WATER when the Vikings were Farming in Greenland.
Most of the world is under water today.
They BOTH do it along with any number of other Feral Gov't agencies. Most of these organizations need to be re-purposed to building the Southern Wall.
Did anyone ever thing that if Greenland was warm enough for the ice to melt it would freeze up someplace else?
And during the last ice age, sea levels were 400 feet lower than today. So?
We are ALL GONNA DIE!
LOL, And not just Financially....
As Zwally (2015)found in the Antarctic, and given Cohen (2013) it’s likely that the ‘gains in the interior, exceed the losses on the coast’ on Greenland.
i.e.: Global warming causes more snow, causes more ice, causes bigger glaciers.
Negative feedback.
Cooling.
Show the long-hand math proving the cubic feet of all Greenland frozen cover versus cubic feet of the entire planets connected salt waters up to the shoreline. I detect some dropping of a several decimal places here and there to cause alarm and panic.
Yes, and if all the volcanoes on earth erupted it would be bad. If the sun went nova, it'd be really bad. If aliens landed, it would be bad (the technologically inferior typically suffer in these kinds of encounters). If there were massive underwater quakes there'd be tsunamis and it would be bad.
The point is, there are a lot of bad things that *could* happen. This smacks of sensationalism just to keep the fear up.
One only has to ask if the coastlines of Europe disappeared at the time when the “Vikings” settled in Greenland? They didn’t.
The NASA calculations seem to impute every drop of “melt” as landing in the sea, and none in the air, none becoming rain clouds, none becoming rain over land that fills landlocked lakes, and underground aquifers; all just melted into the seas. They are not scientists.
Trump will kick all the muslims and climate changers out of NASA
This Crap will be wiped away when Obama is flushed
Yup. Like the good business man he is, Trump is success oriented and looking to get things accomplished on or ahead of schedule for the least amount of expenditure. Provide results and you’ll probably avoid “You’re fired!”
Uh, ya and if grasshoppers had machine guns birds wouldn't mess with them.
I read a liberal climate crap article that the sea levels have risen “significantly” but we cannot perceive it because those pesky continents keep absorbing the water
I’m not kidding
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