There are 43,560 square feet in an acre; 640 acres in a square mile and 140,000,000 square miles in the Earth's oceans.
So, to raise sea level by one foot, this glacier would only have to contain 39,000,000,000,000,000 cubic feet of water (give or take).
How does it feel to be smarter than a climate scientist?
It feels great! Found this on Quora:
“The land area of the earth is 510.1 trillion km² = 510,100,000,000 km².
This translates to 126,048,455,086,401 acres”
139 million square miles of the Earths surface is covered by ocean.
Or 71% of the world is ocean. Thanks for the workup.
A HELL of a lot of Ice— in fact ALL THE ICE ON BOTH POLES- would not be enough, and never ever be enough. These clowns are real idiots— and they call themselves “scientists”.
“Math Class is hard”— so said Barbie, and so said Ken. Good thing their “model” have no sexual organs to replicate this knowledge-— heh.!
You have an extra zero, it would require 3.9e+15. Thwaites Glacier has an estimated above float volume of 9.1e+15. But since it's geologic/geothermal activity melting the glacier, there's not much we can do to change the rate of outflow/melt. Notice the OP article never mentions climate change or global warming. They leave it up to the reader to apply that preconceived (brainwashed) notion.
Maybe we can throw cars into a volcano to appease Gaia. Or Democrats. AOC could volunteer and save the earth through her sacrifice.