DrafterX
12 years ago
I don't see Florida underwater or anything close to that.. as the ice is melting the water is also evaporating and will redistribute itself over land... 😟
Gene363
12 years ago

I don't see Florida underwater or anything close to that.. as the ice is melting the water is also evaporating and will redistribute itself over land... 😟

DrafterX wrote:



Yup, monster tornadoes, record snowfall and super-storms don't run on dry ice.

HockeyDad
12 years ago

Define significant.

victor809 wrote:



Studies have already been done that show that if all ice on the planet melted, sea levels would rise by 16 inches.
victor809
12 years ago

I don't see Florida underwater or anything close to that.. as the ice is melting the water is also evaporating and will redistribute itself over land... 😟

DrafterX wrote:



... redistribute itself over land.

Huh... that's kind of what I'm talking about. You know, the ocean redistributing itself over some land.
victor809
12 years ago

Studies have already been done that show that if all ice on the planet melted, sea levels would rise by 16 inches.

HockeyDad wrote:



I don't think that's correct.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/rising-seas/if-ice-melted-map 

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/question473.htm 
"If all of the Antarctic ice melted, sea levels around the world would rise about 61 meters (200 feet). "
HockeyDad
12 years ago

... redistribute itself over land.

Huh... that's kind of what I'm talking about. You know, the ocean redistributing itself over some land.

victor809 wrote:



A lot of places could use the rain. Puffins and penguins are hogging all that fresh water.
victor809
12 years ago

A lot of places could use the rain. Puffins and penguins are hogging all that fresh water.

HockeyDad wrote:



Probably hogging oil too
DrafterX
12 years ago


"If all of the Antarctic ice melted, sea levels around the world would rise about 61 meters (200 feet). "

victor809 wrote:




gotta throw the Bullsh^t flag on that one.... 😟
HockeyDad
12 years ago

I don't think that's correct.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/rising-seas/if-ice-melted-map 

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/question473.htm 
"If all of the Antarctic ice melted, sea levels around the world would rise about 61 meters (200 feet). "

victor809 wrote:



So one source say 216 feet. One source says 16 inches, one source says 63 meters. Who to believe!?

Besides, 5000 years is a long time away. We would have to not nuke everything or get invaded by aliens to get that far.
victor809
12 years ago

gotta throw the Bullsh^t flag on that one.... 😟

DrafterX wrote:



Why?
Just because you don't like it? You can't throw a BS flag randomly. Give a reason.
victor809
12 years ago

So one source say 216 feet. One source says 16 inches, one source says 63 meters. Who to believe!?

Besides, 5000 years is a long time away. We would have to not nuke everything or get invaded by aliens to get that far.

HockeyDad wrote:



Two sources estimate close to 200ft, and one Hockeydad says "16 inches"... Wow... there's just no way whatsoever to know the answer... 🙄

Anyway, the math could be done pretty easily. We have volume estimates on the antarctic ice, greenland ice. We have area of the ocean. That's pretty easy. The only tricky part is how the area changes as the sea level rises, as more area becomes ocean. That can be modeled pretty easily. As the surface area is already close to 2/3 water, it likely won't have too much impact on the nubmers.

The calculations I've seen have been closer to the 200ft mark.

As for the 5000 years... yeah, who really cares about anything that far out. I'm simply trying to point out that the phrase "never gonna happen" is blatantly wrong 98.2% of the time.
HockeyDad
12 years ago
I've got many sources that say 16 inches of ocean rise.

Another factor not even considered is the extra water weight displacing the crust and causing the continents to rise at an accelerated rate. This could result in a sea level drop at least in certain regional cases.
victor809
12 years ago

I've got many sources that say 16 inches of ocean rise.

Another factor not even considered is the extra water weight displacing the crust and causing the continents to rise at an accelerated rate. This could result in a sea level drop at least in certain regional cases.

HockeyDad wrote:



Remember HD, we're talking about the navel gazing concept of "total glacier melt". Your "sources" may be calculating something different. Seeing as we've gotten a 7" rise in about 100 years, it's pretty unlikely that a full dump of all remaining ice into the oceans is only going to give us another 16". That would imply that close to 1/4 of the glaciers have already been melted.

As for extra water weight displacing the crust... you're suggesting we'll see an increase in ocean depth resulting in a raising of land continents in other areas... an interesting proposition. Certainly destructive, but interesting.
HockeyDad
12 years ago
We have not had a seven inch rise. My sources say we have had a two inch rise as we emerge from the last Ice Age
victor809
12 years ago

We have not had a seven inch rise. My sources say we have had a two inch rise as we emerge from the last Ice Age

HockeyDad wrote:



Well, you personally may have had a 2" rise, but a 7" rise is pretty much what the rest of the world has.

(see what I did there?)
HockeyDad
12 years ago
Like Asia could have a seven inch rise...

Nope. Gotta throw the BS flag.

It is all scare tactics to generate revenue and profit. Trillions to stop a few inches. It is the new military industrial complex.
victor809
12 years ago

Like Asia could have a seven inch rise...

Nope. Gotta throw the BS flag.

It is all scare tactics to generate revenue and profit. Trillions to stop a few inches. It is the new military industrial complex.

HockeyDad wrote:



I'm throwing a BS flag on that. If you truly believed it was the new military industrial complex, you'd have invested heavily in it by now.
jetblasted
12 years ago

... you're suggesting we'll see an increase in ocean depth resulting in a raising of land continents in other areas... an interesting proposition. Certainly destructive, but interesting.

victor809 wrote:



Does this mean that Guam will tip over ??

8-[
HockeyDad
12 years ago
Who said I wasn't invested in it?
HockeyDad
12 years ago

Does this mean that Guam will tip over ??

8-[

jetblasted wrote:




Guam has tipped over twice. That is why it looks normal.
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