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To: gondramB

How Stuff Works indicates there are 326,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water on earth. If one assumes that the majority is in the oceans, and if the oceans temperature increased by 1 degree, then an additional 32,600,000,000,000,000 gallons by volume would be added. It is estimated 1.6% of all earths water is in the polar ice caps or 5,216,000,000,000,000,000 gallons. Seems like a 1 degree rise in water temperature would raise the oceans a considerable amount.


70 posted on 10/17/2005 2:55:01 PM PDT by Ben Mugged (Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. - Thomas Mann)
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To: Ben Mugged

"How Stuff Works indicates there are 326,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water on earth. If one assumes that the majority is in the oceans, and if the oceans temperature increased by 1 degree, then an additional 32,600,000,000,000,000 gallons by volume would be added. It is estimated 1.6% of all earths water is in the polar ice caps or 5,216,000,000,000,000,000 gallons. Seems like a 1 degree rise in water temperature would raise the oceans a considerable amount."


I'm not convinced that the warming is all the way down to the bottom of the ocean but other than that I follow your math.


71 posted on 10/17/2005 3:01:07 PM PDT by gondramB (Conservatism is a positive doctrine. Reactionaryism is a negative doctrine.)
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