Ice has a lower density than water, and salt water has an even higher density.
About 10% total. 2.9 million cubic km of ice, so 2.6 million of water. Divided by the area of oceans 360 million square kilometres (plus a small amount for inundated areas) and you get 7.2 metres. Who knows how you get 3.2m? Assuming a flat earth? Nobody is saying the whole thing will melt soon, but it gives scale to the possibilities.
Antarctica has nearly ten times the ice. So even 1% of that melting would have severe costs.
the Greenland ice sheet alone holds enough water to raise sea levels 7 metres.
About 3.2 meters. That's the real figure.
Why are ACs so stupid? The 7m is a simple theoretical number, from dividing the volume of Greenland's ice by the area of the oceans. Hardly controversial.
Here on the other side of the planet, I was taught that the US is a representative democracy, with Rule of Law. So the president must obey the law, and the congress passes the law. Therefore, if congress opposes the wall, that should be the end of it. Surely the talk of emergency powers is a bluff, and it would never survive a court challenge?
So why doesn't Trump just give up, and blame the awful congress for its failure? Surely all his advisers have told him it was a stupid idea that would never work? If he is serious about the problems of illegal immigration, why not look for more effective strategies? Whatever you think about migration, walls just don't work. Even the Soviets only walled Berlin, not the entire east-west border, which is a lot smaller than the US-mexico one.
So what do you think? I'm skimmed your recent comments and not found it. Are you denying AGW?
Climate modelling is hard, when there are so many feedback mechanisms, positive and negative.
But I've already seen long-term rainfall decline dramatically here, due to climate shift. We are now dependent on desalination for our water supply. So maybe that makes us a little more open minded to the risks.
One of the hardest elements to predict is the pace of ice-sheet melting. This should be the message here.
It will probably be tolerable in my lifetime, but the Greenland ice sheet alone holds enough water to raise sea levels 7 metres. And it is melting, it is just a question of how fast.
It is really "toddler mode", they just can't call it that for legal reasons.
On a related note, I know some parents who put their baby in the car and drove laps just to get the baby to sleep. Now they can stay home while the car does that!
"Lazy" is a word used by lazy people. It has no useful meaning, except as a pejorative. Women and men, in aggregate, are motivated differently, and tend to make different choices.
Love how you quoted that article, as though it supported your claims.
Perhaps you should quote Jordan Peterson instead, he's far more your speed.
"So you are saying..." nothing, come to think of it. Not even a counter-claim let alone a rational argument. What is the point of posting if you have nothing worthwhile to say?
(In case anyone forgot just how fucked liberal logic truly is today...)
You were doing well, until you got into that false dichotomy. That "All liberals are vegan gender-fluid Social Justice Warriors", and "all conservatives are gun-toting racist climate-change-deniers" bullshit.
Well, no, some are. You can't generalize from what is actually a tiny minority.
Men are not a tiny minority, and of course you can generalise. You must be unfamiliar with what the word means? "Men in general have shorter lives than women. " Does that context help you understand what "generalise" means?
(And can I be mansplaining if I don't know your gender?)
It is true. Men are manipulated by testosterone to work harder, and take more risks than women. Men are highly motivated to engage in behaviours that attract a reproductive partner.
But if men are castrated, they live much longer, longer even than women. They stop doing so many silly dangerous things, and stop working so hard.
My phone was upgraded today with the new beta and I am enjoying the new speeds.
This is no more silly than people getting excited about their awesome new 4K TV, when they sit 10 foot or more away, and so cannot possibly tell the difference.
Never mind sales numbers, all Apple has to do is keep increasing the price of new models in proportion to falling sales numbers. Revenue stays the same, and costs even go down! Shareholders happy. How can the plan fail?
We have the same stereotype where I live: poor, dumb, single-parent, welfare, expensive shoes and chunky gold necklace, drugs and crime. Except I'm not in America, and there are few blacks, so that whole description here is about social class and not tied to race. Not like in most of the US, anyway.
It was a bit racist of the AC grandparent to make the connection, but I suppose it is hard to live where he is, without automatically associating class and race.
You already are. But it remains to be seen if the US stays as the foremost global power as long as the UK did, or handles the transition as well. Though I'm sure the US will do better than Portugal or Russia, post empire.
It's absolutely nuts to train the smartest people in the world at the best schools in the world... and then ask them to kindly leave.
The British have done well by educating many of the next generation of world leaders, for centuries. It helps develop the economy of their home countries, creates an elite that are sympathetic to western values and interests, and facilitates trade.
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Ice has a lower density than water, and salt water has an even higher density.
About 10% total.
2.9 million cubic km of ice, so 2.6 million of water. Divided by the area of oceans 360 million square kilometres (plus a small amount for inundated areas)
and you get 7.2 metres. Who knows how you get 3.2m? Assuming a flat earth?
Nobody is saying the whole thing will melt soon, but it gives scale to the possibilities.
Antarctica has nearly ten times the ice. So even 1% of that melting would have severe costs.
the Greenland ice sheet alone holds enough water to raise sea levels 7 metres.
About 3.2 meters. That's the real figure.
Why are ACs so stupid? The 7m is a simple theoretical number, from dividing the volume of Greenland's ice by the area of the oceans. Hardly controversial.
It is not a forecast.
Not saying it did. I just saw you standing over the dead body with a gun. I did not see you shoot.
Can't prove it, but I'm going to be careful.
Here on the other side of the planet, I was taught that the US is a representative democracy, with Rule of Law.
So the president must obey the law, and the congress passes the law.
Therefore, if congress opposes the wall, that should be the end of it.
Surely the talk of emergency powers is a bluff, and it would never survive a court challenge?
So why doesn't Trump just give up, and blame the awful congress for its failure? Surely all his advisers have told him it was a stupid idea that would never work?
If he is serious about the problems of illegal immigration, why not look for more effective strategies? Whatever you think about migration, walls just don't work. Even the Soviets only walled Berlin, not the entire east-west border, which is a lot smaller than the US-mexico one.
So what do you think? I'm skimmed your recent comments and not found it.
Are you denying AGW?
Climate modelling is hard, when there are so many feedback mechanisms, positive and negative.
But I've already seen long-term rainfall decline dramatically here, due to climate shift. We are now dependent on desalination for our water supply. So maybe that makes us a little more open minded to the risks.
Easy boy, you seem to be mistaking me for someone else. I did not make the claims you wish to attack.
I sense a lot of anger in this one.
One of the hardest elements to predict is the pace of ice-sheet melting. This should be the message here.
It will probably be tolerable in my lifetime, but the Greenland ice sheet alone holds enough water to raise sea levels 7 metres. And it is melting, it is just a question of how fast.
It is really "toddler mode", they just can't call it that for legal reasons.
On a related note, I know some parents who put their baby in the car and drove laps just to get the baby to sleep. Now they can stay home while the car does that!
So women are lazier than men and live longer.
"Lazy" is a word used by lazy people. It has no useful meaning, except as a pejorative.
Women and men, in aggregate, are motivated differently, and tend to make different choices.
Love how you quoted that article, as though it supported your claims.
Perhaps you should quote Jordan Peterson instead, he's far more your speed.
"So you are saying ..." nothing, come to think of it. Not even a counter-claim let alone a rational argument. What is the point of posting if you have nothing worthwhile to say?
(In case anyone forgot just how fucked liberal logic truly is today...)
You were doing well, until you got into that false dichotomy.
That "All liberals are vegan gender-fluid Social Justice Warriors", and "all conservatives are gun-toting racist climate-change-deniers" bullshit.
Most people are not on those extremes.
Well, no, some are. You can't generalize from what is actually a tiny minority.
Men are not a tiny minority, and of course you can generalise. You must be unfamiliar with what the word means?
"Men in general have shorter lives than women. " Does that context help you understand what "generalise" means?
(And can I be mansplaining if I don't know your gender?)
It is true.
Men are manipulated by testosterone to work harder, and take more risks than women. Men are highly motivated to engage in behaviours that attract a reproductive partner.
But if men are castrated, they live much longer, longer even than women. They stop doing so many silly dangerous things, and stop working so hard.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/men-ca...
My phone was upgraded today with the new beta and I am enjoying the new speeds.
This is no more silly than people getting excited about their awesome new 4K TV, when they sit 10 foot or more away, and so cannot possibly tell the difference.
a trove of features, such as a built-in GPS tracker, built-in microphone and speaker, a calling and SMS text function,
So like a phone except you cannot airdrop dick pics?
Never mind sales numbers, all Apple has to do is keep increasing the price of new models in proportion to falling sales numbers.
Revenue stays the same, and costs even go down! Shareholders happy. How can the plan fail?
We have the same stereotype where I live: poor, dumb, single-parent, welfare, expensive shoes and chunky gold necklace, drugs and crime.
Except I'm not in America, and there are few blacks, so that whole description here is about social class and not tied to race. Not like in most of the US, anyway.
It was a bit racist of the AC grandparent to make the connection, but I suppose it is hard to live where he is, without automatically associating class and race.
School shootings have become a regular occurrence in the USA. A "normal" part of everyday life. How did this happen?
A culture of individualism over collectivism, and easy access to deadly weapons. And the US is a very big country. Next question.
Nuclear is less popular in China since the movie came out "Miguó zònghé zhèng" (The America Syndrome).
Did they ask the people of Ghana if they were even wanted there in the first place?
Well, they asked online, and nobody clicked "Dislike".
Oh boy! We can be the next UK!
You already are. But it remains to be seen if the US stays as the foremost global power as long as the UK did, or handles the transition as well.
Though I'm sure the US will do better than Portugal or Russia, post empire.
In unrelated news, PC uptime and productivity sets record high.
It's absolutely nuts to train the smartest people in the world at the best schools in the world... and then ask them to kindly leave.
The British have done well by educating many of the next generation of world leaders, for centuries.
It helps develop the economy of their home countries, creates an elite that are sympathetic to western values and interests, and facilitates trade.
Yeah, it's almost as if opinions vary from person to person. Shocking!
Yes, but not randomly. There is some critical consensus, and those movies, while not bad, are surprising to see in an all-time top list.
Commonsense unsurprising article. Shame on slashdot editor.