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Originally Posted by 427 S/O
Quote Wes: In other words, fill a glass of water and suspend an ice cube above the glass with a couple of toothpicks. When the cube melts, the glass will flow over. By how much the rise, well that depends on the size of the cube, I guess.
Down here we call that.............Rain!!
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Good one, Perry.
I didn't make myself too clear. The principle you first listed above is that any floating ice doesn't displace any more floating volume when it melts because it weighs the same, frozen or not.
The ice that sits on land or is stacked higher than float level on the
continental shelf does increase sea level ...if it actually melts.
I've always thought of this snowmelt (cubemelt) as run-off and rain derived from condensed vapor.
But, although some things fall out of the sky
...the whole sky is not falling.
Like you, I find it hard to believe that sea water would rise very dramatically.
How much "tall" ice can there be?
Wes
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Originally Posted by Fred Douglass
...that tube-steak AlGore is shovelling.......shovelling millions into his offshore* accounts!
*oh C'Mon, you didn't think he was going to pay taxes on all that filthy lucre, didja?
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.......there's toot'picks holding those above-sea-level glaciers up? Krikeys! They must be HUGE toot'picks!!!!!! Wait, lemme check my notes......
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Freddie,
Wouldn't doubt off-shore accounts. Al-Baby has never lifted more than a piece of paper nor pushed that more heavy than a pencil.
His forte is apparently benefitting off ways to make mouth-money while somebody else pays. Link?
...must be HUGE toot'picks!!!!!!
The toothpicks don't have to be large, just two for every cubic inch of ice. We can buy the wood from Scott.
Wes
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