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To: Magnum44; crusty old prospector

Please pardon my interrupting your virtual hug, but there is a boo boo somewhere. Magnum44, in the post you referenced, you estimate there to be:

160,138,201,500,000 cubic ft of worldwide glacial ice

If the dimensions given by “scientists” are accurate, there are:

8,252,006,400,000,000 cubic ft of ice in the Twaites Glacier alone, better known as the “Doomsday” Glacier (74,000 sq mi by 4000 ft thick).

If that whole chunk of ice somehow slid off of dry land into the ocean, there would in fact be a little over 25 inches sea level rise.


140 posted on 02/15/2022 7:53:58 PM PST by Btlg
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To: Btlg

I’m not going to check your numbers now, but please provide references. I did simple googles to find references for my numbers. If your doomsday glacier is floating, then 87% of it is underwater already. So no farther displacement from that. And based on my earlier check of this, I doubt any single glacier, even yours, would amount to a significant rise given the massive ocean surface area.


141 posted on 02/15/2022 9:44:02 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Btlg

Well, I did find a mistake in my back of the envelope calculation, squaring instead of cubing ft/mile when converting cubic miles to cubic feet. I can’t find references for your glacier volume, but I concede my estimate assuming complete melting of all glaciers to be off. That was of course not realistic to assume 100% melt off. But my half inch estimate is also a low ball.

Big numbers get messy.


142 posted on 02/15/2022 10:47:45 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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