Massive Antarctic Glacier Has Entered Irriversible Melt, Could Add Up To 1 Centimeter

[orogenicman]

Do you really want to stick with your claim that melting 192 cubic miles of glacial ice would have NO effect on sea level? Really? REALLY? What drugs have you been taking?

That would be approximately .001% of the earth's yearly rainfall. Just to put it into some perspective.

Perhaps you can show us your math.

 

[SwimExpert]

Do you really want to stick with your claim that melting 192 cubic miles of glacial ice would have NO effect on sea level? Really? REALLY? What drugs have you been taking?

That would be approximately .001% of the earth's yearly rainfall. Just to put it into some perspective.

Perhaps you can show us your math.

Sure. Mind you, I did a little bit of rounding.

--200 cubic miles ~ 8 x 10^11 cubic meters
--Surface area of Earth ~ 5.1 x 10^14 square meters
--Average yearly rainfall on Earth = 1.05 meters

Volume of yearly rainfall = (5.1 x 10^14) * 1.05 = 5.36 x 10^14 cubic meters

(8 x 10^11) / (5.36 x 10^14) = 0.001

 

[flacaltenn]

That would be approximately .001% of the earth's yearly rainfall. Just to put it into some perspective.

Perhaps you can show us your math.

Sure. Mind you, I did a little bit of rounding.

--200 cubic miles ~ 8 x 10^11 cubic meters
--Surface area of Earth ~ 5.1 x 10^14 square meters
--Average yearly rainfall on Earth = 1.05 meters

Volume of yearly rainfall = (5.1 x 10^14) * 1.05 = 5.36 x 10^14 cubic meters

(8 x 10^11) / (5.36 x 10^14) = 0.001

Close enough for Climate Science eh ????
But that would be 0.1%... Not 0.001%.. No worries. That's the penalty for using the tools..

 

[SwimExpert]

Perhaps you can show us your math.

Sure. Mind you, I did a little bit of rounding.

--200 cubic miles ~ 8 x 10^11 cubic meters
--Surface area of Earth ~ 5.1 x 10^14 square meters
--Average yearly rainfall on Earth = 1.05 meters

Volume of yearly rainfall = (5.1 x 10^14) * 1.05 = 5.36 x 10^14 cubic meters

(8 x 10^11) / (5.36 x 10^14) = 0.001

Close enough for Climate Science eh ????
But that would be 0.1%... Not 0.001%.. No worries. That's the penalty for using the tools..

*facepalm*

 

[orogenicman]

That would be approximately .001% of the earth's yearly rainfall. Just to put it into some perspective.

Perhaps you can show us your math.

Sure. Mind you, I did a little bit of rounding.

--200 cubic miles ~ 8 x 10^11 cubic meters
--Surface area of Earth ~ 5.1 x 10^14 square meters
--Average yearly rainfall on Earth = 1.05 meters

Volume of yearly rainfall = (5.1 x 10^14) * 1.05 = 5.36 x 10^14 cubic meters

(8 x 10^11) / (5.36 x 10^14) = 0.001

Thank you for being honest, but you forgot to multiply the result by 100 to get the percentage. Now, you do realize that not all of that rainfall reaches the oceans, right? So shouldn't you limit your comparison to annual rainfall that actually does reach the oceans?

 

[SwimExpert]

No, because I was only trying to offer some quick quantitative perspective. Not a detailed analysis.

But, if you prefer a more detailed analysis, here's one for you: You are talking about 0.0000599% of the ocean's total volume.

--Volume of Earth's oceans = 1,335,000,000 cubic km

8 x 10^11 cubic meters = 800 cubic km
800 / 1,335,000,000 = 5.99 x 10^-7 = 0.0000599%

 

[SwimExpert]

Oh, and we should remember that the volume of water decreases as it melts from solid to liquid.