i was wondering if any of you heard this on Rush's show last week, any way here it is:
what would it take to melt the antarctic ice?
You first calculate the volume of it to find the weight, and it turns out that there's 26.5-thousand-billion cubic meters of ice down there, and the specific heat required to raise the temperature of all that ice one degree would take 51 trillion-trillion joules of energy just to raise the temperature of all of it one degree Celsius. Not even to melt it, just to raise the temperature one degree.
OK libs, try..., really, REALY try to imagine exactly what 51 trillion-trillion joules of energy is.........,
HINT
think beyond the Sun