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To: outofsalt

Do you know how many tons of ice have to melt to raise the sea level 1 mm? 1 ton? 100 tons? 1,000,000 tons? 100,000,000? 1,000,000,000? Well if you said none, you are right. It takes 360,000,000 tons of melted ice to raise the sea level 1 mm.


16 posted on 02/24/2019 12:45:34 PM PST by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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To: Kozy

I think you meant 350 billion, not 350 million. Even then, it would have to be ice sitting on land running into the water let us, otherwise my iced tea would overflow everytime the ice melts.


22 posted on 02/24/2019 12:50:13 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Kozy

It takes 360,000,000 tons of melted ice to raise the sea level 1 mm.


Assuming that no where in the world does an equal amount of water freeze

“The average weight for a Grand Banks-area iceberg is 100,000-200,000 tonnes” That’s a lot of bergs ...


25 posted on 02/24/2019 12:54:12 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Kozy
It takes 360,000,000 tons of melted ice to raise the sea level 1 mm.

Presuming that all that ice melted because it got 'hotter', the atmosphere would absorb the extra moisture and the net result would be zero.

37 posted on 02/24/2019 1:11:18 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Kozy
Well if you said none, you are right. It takes 360,000,000 tons of melted ice to raise the sea level 1 mm.

Yeah, and all that ice has to come from the land, because all the ice currently in the water will have no effect whatsoever if it melts.

41 posted on 02/24/2019 1:22:02 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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