One simple fact that the global warming crowd ignores, Ices expands and when it warms up it’s volume decreases.
If all the ice in the world melted the sea level would go down not up. Not to mention the higher temperatures would cause more water to be vaporized.
It is just bad science from someone that failed to get a degree in theology.
Gallons? Too easy. How about teaspoons? ;’)
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I posed this to my grandson, who has his Masters in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan. He offers the following:
Let me begin by saying that I am using the following rough assumptions.
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/HannaBerenblit.shtml has a reasonable estimate of the volume of polar ice caps (33 million cubic kilometers)
Ice is about 9% less dense than water (source: wikipedia)
So let’s start.
It was previously computed that 29 quadrillion gallons of water would raise sea level 1 foot. Cool. That’ll never happen, I mean that’s a ton of water right?
Let’s see what the Ice Caps have to say about that.
As stated as an assumption, we will assume 33 million kilometers of frozen ice.
converting that to cubic meters of ice, we get 3.3*10^16 cubic meters of ice.
Now we melt that to WATER, which is 9% less dense
that leaves us with 3.003*10^16 cubic meters of WATER.
Converting cubic meters to gallons (264.1721 gal/cubic meter)
gives us 7.933*10^18 gallons of water.
Divide that by the amount of water to raise sea level 1’ (29 quadrillion) gives us
7.933*10^16 / 2.9*10^16 = 273.55476
or about 274’ of raised sea level.
now, take three case
The Ice caps are all above sea level already, in which case ALL of this water would raise the sea level (answer = 274 feet)
The Ice caps are like icebergs, with 90% underwater, already (answer = 27.4 feet)
Most likely, a lot but not all ice is above water, call it 50/50 (137 feet)
Case 1 and Case 3 probably drown all of Miami, Manhattan, New Orleans, Netherlands, most of the Caribbean, never mind what it does to the climate and weather.
Case 2 still destroys New Orleans, probably the Netherlands, and probably seriously hurts Manhattan and miami. If nothing else it is going to mess with the weather to have all that extra water in places like Mexico and Africa, and Southeast Asia.
Oh yeah Southeast Asia probably gets hit pretty hard by Case 1 and Case 3 as well. I wonder what all that water does to the deserts of the Middle east.
Anyway there you go.
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