re: Climate alarmists warn that rain in Greenland would raise sea levels by 7 meters.

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Don't we want more seals??

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Don't you know how much it costs to train them baws?

The New Greenland Deal! AOC will be so proud!

So all the rivers that run into the ocean don't make the sea level rise but some ice in Greenland is going to kill everyone? Makes sense.

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question the math here, not saying it is wrong, but the numbers dont make since

area of ocean: 361,900,000 square miles
area of Greenland: 836,300 square miles

ratio of area of ocean to Greenland: 433:1

so for every 433' of ice thickness in greenland that melts, the ocean will rise 1'. So for the ocean to rise 23 feet, nearly 10,000 feet of ice (nearly 2 miles high) would need to melt.....

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I ran the math. It seems correct. I'm getting 8 meters but I'm assumed current water surface area. Of course water surface area will increase so the height will decrease to approximately 7 meters.

But this is not the issue. The issue is making the assumption that the Greenland Ice Sheet is melting at a faster rate than ever and implying that 100% of the Greenland Ice Sheet will melt away.

This article demonstrates why that is not true: LINK

Here's the TL:DR version:



25,000 years ago the Greenland Ice Sheet was at it's lowest estimated/calculated volume.

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Conclusion

From this geological perspective, the Greenland Ice Sheet is not behaving badly.

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And if all of that ice melted, the sea level would rise by seven metres, threatening coastal population centres around the world.

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Ya gotta love "if" statements like this with literally NO reference to the likelihood of it occurring.

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Ya gotta love "if" statements like this with literally NO reference to the likelihood of it occurring.

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Like what if everyone urinated in the pacific ocean at the same time?

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And if all of that ice melted, the sea level would rise by seven metres, threatening coastal population centres around the world.

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This would take 3,000 years to happen. Solutions would arise.

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I understand how they arrived at the 7 meter rise in sea levels. But the fact that the article implies that 100% of the Greenland Ice Sheet will melt is complete bull shite.

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Well that's the funny part. They just kinda throw in that "if" statement and let the reader do the implying in their own head.

It would be like having a toddler reach up and pull one of your hairs out and someone said, "if she kept doing that, you'd be bald".

Well no frick. But that's kinda irrelevant!

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You can reduce that 7 meter rise by 1/5 then.

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