On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Jim Dettman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stephen, > > The Arctic and Antarctic are a LOT bigger then you think. The Antarctic > is > roughly 4.5 million square miles with an average ice depth of almost > 8000'. > That is a heck of a lot of ice. > > When you start talking about ice sheets the size of some small states > splitting off > ( > http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-antarctic26mar26,0,4061120.story > ), I don't doubt that see levels could rise. > > The US by the way is roughly 3.5 million square miles. > ------------------------------------------------ Now how Tall is that ice sheet? I don't care how deep the sheet is for this purpose because that volume is all part of the current sea level today. I have a glass of rabbit pellet ice and added water to fill it. I place that on the table. Will it overflow when the ice melts? will there be a huge puddle on my table? I take same glass, and an icicle in the glass. I add the water to full and now what happens. that polar caps are not the primary issue here as compared to the glaciers that exist today. That river of ice that is 200 ft thick and a half a mile wide. It happens to be at 20,000 ft in China. this is what I am considering as the only real itmes that could make a noticeable change in sea level. YMMV -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Mimeo.com Memphis TN 901.246-0159 --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
