It seems to me that I remeber from grade school science that if you melt ice, the volume decreases by about 10%.
So if polar ice melts, wouldn’t the volume of the water be less?
In that case, melting the polar ice caps would possibly lower the sea level, wouldn’t it?
GMTA
I’m not too worried about sea rise...
Jer 5:22
Should you not fear me?” declares the LORD.
“Should you not tremble in my presence?
I made the sand a boundary for the sea,
an everlasting barrier it cannot cross.
The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail;
they may roar, but they cannot cross it.
“It seems to me that I remeber from grade school science that if you melt ice, the volume decreases by about 10%.”
Isn’t that why forgotten cans of soda explode in the freezer?
DING DING DING! We have a winner!
The sea level would only change if there was a VERY substantial amount of the ice that was perched on land.
Sea ice melting adds NO volume - its displacement is part of the sea level. Try filling a glass with ice and water. When the ice melts, compare the level. It will be the same or less, as you have already noted. This nonsense about a catastrophic rise of the sea because an ice shelf broke up is garbage. Ice hazard to shipping? Sure. But it won’t raise sea levels by a centimeter.
What I want to know though, is where will the water’s NEW edge be? I want to buy property there. Oceanfront property in waiting. Show us the inundation map!
Only for the part that is already underwater (most of the North Pole). The part above land would seemingly rush into the ocean. Of course, gw believers never bother to account for the water uptake of any plants that might thrive in that region when the permafrost melts. Only ridiculous dooms day prophecies get any government funding from the mental midgets in DC.
OK, one more time, THE REASON ICE FLOATS is because water expands when it freezes. Thus, the amount of water ice displaces weighs LESS than the ice.
Mr Wizard experiment: Fill a glass with ice cubes. Fill it with water to the brim. Let it melt. No change in level. {The water on the counter is condensation from the outside of the glass.)
Albore is telling you that he is hoping the ice on Greenland and the Antarctic land masses will melt by 2014, so he can avoid living under a bridge when he gets out of jail for fraud.
Based on your experiment, what are his chances?
Not if it rests on land that is above sea level.
And besides that, let me offer a question even a grade-schooler could come up with: (first the premise) at what temperature does ocean water begin to evaporate? Is evaporation a process that is continuous, except in “cold” conditions? Is evaporation (by definition, the LOWERING of the level of seas and oceans) ever figured into the “science” of predicting what sea levels are likely to do?(rise, fall, or maintain equilibrium)Isn’t a certain degree of evaporation always to be expected? Is it assumed that that big bugaboo, ‘the melting of the polar ice caps’ ,
going to be SO overwhelming that no amount of evaporation would be equal to the increased water put into the oceans
by the global warming that, essentially, starts the whole thing going by melting those polar ice caps?
I have lots more questions, teacher..........
Well just fill a glass with ice cubes and wait for them to melt. What happens? Does it overflow the glass onto the table? Enough said.