Posted on 03/20/2007 8:16:51 PM PDT by DouglasKC
Tha majority of Greenland's interior is 1000 feet BELOW sea level (land surface that is.)
The weight of 15 million years of glaciers has depressed the land mass so much that if the ice melted, Greenland would be archipelago ring of land and islands.
So all the numbers on "if Greenland melted" do not take into account the sea which would fill in the interior of the continent.
Throw that one in everytime some global warmer talks about Greenland melting. It gives them a brainfreeze and a brain melt-down.
And the Greenland glaciers cannot "slide-off" the way Al Gore likes to talk about it.
The interior glaciers are locked in place due to the land surface being lower in the interior than the coast. They cannot slide into the sea.
I like Bass fishing, but they're a fresh water species.
I don't have enough years left to wait for them to evolve into a salt water species.
Maybe my ancestors will cast for Bass in the NY Canyons several thousand years from now.
Ah yes, but here is an inconvenient truth... it is getting colder in Antarctic.
Right on! That will increase my property value dramatically. I'll have beach front property for a change. Can't wait.
Thanks for that info....I wasn't aware of the slight difference of ice on salt water. A 1.5 inch rise if all sea water ice melted is pretty insignificant....someone needs to inform Gore!
After NYC get flooded all we need is for an earthquake to drop Hollyweird into the Pacific.
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