Posted on 10/01/2009 9:09:02 PM PDT by JmyBryan
There is no drop in sea leave due to melting of floating ice.
Beats the heck out of an ice age.
BTW whats wrong with having a few more Venices, Huh?
Woo hoo! I’m at 5500 feet above sea level!
Why not, since ice is less dense than liquid water?
By definition, a floating object displaces exactly its own weight in water. Thus the floating ice weighs exactly the same as the displaced water is is occupying.
When it melts it will be water and fill exactly the volume that it had displaced.
It’s odd how the envirowhackos always have us in an unstable equilibrium that will accelerate us into catastrophe once perturbed.
I would think they would expect nature to have already perturbed us out of such unstable equilibria, leaving us in only stable equilibria, that resist change.
But thinking always gets me in trouble.
(not soon enough!)
When it melts it will be water and fill exactly the volume that it had displaced.”
Actually, that is wrong as water expands when it freezes and would displace more than it’s volume.
why is it that real scientists dont pipe up and say.. “this guy is an idiot. why isnt he flipping burgers at McDonalds?”
The seas will rise 2 meters huh?
I’d like to know, have they risen even a single inch?
Ah yes, Archimedes, how could I forget that! So the floating ice would be a net zero, it’s only the runoff from ice on land you would have to worry about. Thanks for the correction.
Actually it is right. But I don't have time tonight to bring you up to speed. Go google it.
No, he’s right. Because the extra volume that the water gains by freezing should be exactly the same as the volume of the floating ice which is above the water line, due to the principle of buoyancy.
That would be a consideration if the icebergs were artificially held below the surface of the water, so that the entire volume of the iceberg was displacing an equally-sized volume of water. However that is not the case, as icebergs float, displacing a weight of water equal to the weight of the iceberg (but not equal to the entire volume of the iceberg)...
That's a good start. But to truly avoid calamity, we must reduce the human population by two thirds, abandon all use of fossil fuels and modern farming methods, and return to the forests.
Then we'll be okay.
curses,foiled again!
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