Posted on 04/23/2019 9:16:02 PM PDT by EdnaMode
The Greenland Ice Sheet is the worlds second-largest reservoir of fresh water sitting on the worlds largest island. It is almost mind-bogglingly huge.
If Greenland were suddenly transported to the central United States, it would be a very bad day for about 65 million people, who would be crushed instantly. But for the sake of science journalism, imagine that Greenlands southernmost tip displaced Brownsville, Texasthe states southernmost cityso that its icy glaciers kissed mainland Mexico and the Gulf thereof. Even then, Greenland would stretch all the way north, clear across the United States, its northern tenth crossing the Canadian border into Ontario and Manitoba. Kansas City, Oklahoma City, and Iowa City would all be goners. So too would San Antonio, Memphis, and Minneapolis. Its easternmost peaks would slam St. Louis and play in Peoria; its northwestern glaciers would rout Rapid City, South Dakota, and meander into Montana. At its center point, near Des Moines, roughly two miles of ice would rise from the surface.
Suffice it to say: The Greenland Ice Sheet, which contains enough water to refill the Great Lakes 115 times over, is very large. And it is also falling apart.
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Oops. Here research replaces misrecollection.
http://www.ancientdestructions.com/greenland-once-a-viking-paradise/
Let's imagine ourselves as Vikings visiting the place during the Medieval Warm Period. If it got warmed up a bit, then you would have glacial runoff water keeping things moist, and the summer days would have been long. That would have made the coasts VERY green.
But would Greenland tip over the US?!?
Indeed. And The Atlantic has form, in terms of publishing colourful scare stories. Here is an example from 2015, predicting the unfreezing of the Arctic, which did not happen:
It was warm enough so that parts of it could be farmed.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/11/why-did-greenland-s-vikings-disappear
If Greenland were suddenly transported to the central United States, it would be a very bad day for about 65 million people, who would be crushed instantly.
How was it measured? Mettler or Toledo?
*hotness hoax ping*
*hotness hoax ping*
Well, that settles it. We’re all going to die.
Thanks fieldmarshaldj.
As long as it don’t tip over.
Biggest Pina Colada EVER
Personally I'd use a postage scale for accuracy. One handful at a time or you might miss something.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanology_of_Iceland
from link:
The volcano system in Iceland that started activity on August 17, 2014, and ended on February 27, 2015, is Bárðarbunga.
The volcano in Iceland that erupted in May 2011 is Grímsvötn.
The volcanoes of Iceland include a high concentration of active ones due to Iceland’s location on the mid-Atlantic Ridge, a divergent tectonic plate boundary, and its location over a hot spot. The island has 30 active volcanic systems, of which 13 have erupted since the settlement of Iceland in AD 874.[1]
Of these 30 active volcanic systems, the most active/volatile is Grímsvötn.[2] Over the past 500 years, Iceland’s volcanoes have erupted a third of the total global lava output.[3]
Good Point!
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