Posted on 01/18/2010 2:47:33 PM PST by Former MSM Viewer
There are 140,000,000 sq miles of oceans.
I want to calculate how many acre/feet or in this case sq mile/ft of water would be needed to raise the level of the sea 1'.
One acre/foot is the amount of water it takes to cover 1 acre 1' deep, which is about 323,000 gallons.
There are 640 acres in 1 sq mile.
To raise 1 sq mile 1', it would take 323,000 X 640= 206,720,000 gallons.
There are approximately 140 million sq miles of ocean on our Blue planet.
To raise 140 million sq miles 1' it would take 140,000,000 X 206,720,000=
28,940,800,000,000,000 gallons.
This is where I need some mathematical help.
What is the volume in cu ft or how many Mt Everests = almost 29 quadrillion gallons of water.
Remember, 29 qualdrillion gallons will only raise the seas 1'. The Global Warming crowd says the seas will rise over 6' if we dont pay up...
Now, if you look at Antarctica, you will find that most of the continent never gets anywhere close to 32 degrees. With that in mind, how does warming Antarctica from -5 to -4 or even -1, melt the ice cap?
Great info! I never thought about this aspect before.
The forgotten item in all these calculations is that most of the ice is floating on water displacing the same amount of water by weight as it weighs. Ice is less dense than water if it were not then the bottoms of lakes would freeze first killing al the fish. When ice melts the water level stays the same. Check it out with a brimful glass of ice water.
Also remember Ice has more volume than water. So, as it melts, it will result in a lesser amount of liquid water by about 8%. (Mass density of ice is .92 g/ml vs 1 g/ml for water)
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Ask the makers of the movie Waterworld.
The sea level would not increase instantly. So they would have a chance to move inland. As well as everyone else that lives near the ocean.
One simple fact that the global warming crowd ignores, Ices expands and when it warms up it’s volume decreases.
If all the ice in the world melted the sea level would go down not up. Not to mention the higher temperatures would cause more water to be vaporized.
It is just bad science from someone that failed to get a degree in theology.
Gallons? Too easy. How about teaspoons? ;’)
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I posed this to my grandson, who has his Masters in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan. He offers the following:
Let me begin by saying that I am using the following rough assumptions.
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/HannaBerenblit.shtml has a reasonable estimate of the volume of polar ice caps (33 million cubic kilometers)
Ice is about 9% less dense than water (source: wikipedia)
So let’s start.
It was previously computed that 29 quadrillion gallons of water would raise sea level 1 foot. Cool. That’ll never happen, I mean that’s a ton of water right?
Let’s see what the Ice Caps have to say about that.
As stated as an assumption, we will assume 33 million kilometers of frozen ice.
converting that to cubic meters of ice, we get 3.3*10^16 cubic meters of ice.
Now we melt that to WATER, which is 9% less dense
that leaves us with 3.003*10^16 cubic meters of WATER.
Converting cubic meters to gallons (264.1721 gal/cubic meter)
gives us 7.933*10^18 gallons of water.
Divide that by the amount of water to raise sea level 1’ (29 quadrillion) gives us
7.933*10^16 / 2.9*10^16 = 273.55476
or about 274’ of raised sea level.
now, take three case
The Ice caps are all above sea level already, in which case ALL of this water would raise the sea level (answer = 274 feet)
The Ice caps are like icebergs, with 90% underwater, already (answer = 27.4 feet)
Most likely, a lot but not all ice is above water, call it 50/50 (137 feet)
Case 1 and Case 3 probably drown all of Miami, Manhattan, New Orleans, Netherlands, most of the Caribbean, never mind what it does to the climate and weather.
Case 2 still destroys New Orleans, probably the Netherlands, and probably seriously hurts Manhattan and miami. If nothing else it is going to mess with the weather to have all that extra water in places like Mexico and Africa, and Southeast Asia.
Oh yeah Southeast Asia probably gets hit pretty hard by Case 1 and Case 3 as well. I wonder what all that water does to the deserts of the Middle east.
Anyway there you go.
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You cheated!
Your numbers and the original poster’s numbers are all we need to know to come to the conclusion that there’s nothing humans could possibly do to create the disaster that the liberals fear, even if we all tried our best to bring it about.
The earth is simply too big and we humans are too miniscule a part to be a factor in that way.
But if it evaporated we would quickly run out of water!
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Al Gore flunked out of divinity school. I suspect he can't balance his checkbook without removing his shoes & socks, let alone do simple mathematical calculations to figure the rise in sea levels.
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