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DarkAngel900 t1_iuqb57k wrote
Still gonna fuck shit up!
marto17890 t1_iuqdhzf wrote
Still caused by greenhouse gases though.
cutelyaware t1_iuqkhuf wrote
Warming ice makes it contract
CarelessHisser t1_iuqnulf wrote
Relative to displacement the expansion of the ocean is much greater than the contraction from ice. Especially with how much ice we've lost so far.
cutelyaware t1_iuqpzzc wrote
You miss the point. I'm saying that not all physical objects expanded when heated, which you should have learned in high school physics or chemistry.
MuhnYourDog t1_iuqqwcd wrote
Wouldn't that be volume displacement or measured in deadweight tonnage (DWT)?
GoGaslightYerself t1_iuqtbng wrote
And then there's land subsidence, like in southeast Virginia, where a bolide created a crater deeper than the Grand Canyon and bigger than Rhode Island, into which all the land has been sinking for the past 35 million years...
Barachan_Isles t1_iur209w wrote
Just wait until our sun dies and becomes a red giant, that's gonna cause some fun thermal issues too.
TechnocraticWardance t1_iur2dlc wrote
I've already been waiting 40 damn years for it! Can we please get on with the show?!
NorthantsBlokeUK t1_iurj5ai wrote
We'll have already fucked the planet WAAAAAAAYYYY before the sun has a go!
SpottedPineapple86 t1_ius1eay wrote
Ice melt is not really a contributor... the ice is already in the water.
Put an ice cube in a cup, then fill it up until the water is just about to spill over. Wait awhile, then observe that after the ice completely melts, the water still hasn't dripped over.
This is a concept known as "displacement"
jippyzippylippy t1_ius1r3k wrote
Hotter water is bigger water.
whipfinish t1_ius7lp5 wrote
Most ice in question is not yet in the water.
GuybrushThreepwoot t1_ius81q9 wrote
But why did the obamas buy a waterfront mansion, we will never know. For the rest of us living inland, the world will drown in 8 years, or something like that.
deck_hand t1_iusanne wrote
The person you replied to didn’t say sea ice melt. Land ice melting and then flowing into the sea is likely what was meant.
_CMDR_ t1_iusaq0k wrote
Most of the ice that is melting is over land.
online_jesus_fukers t1_iush9ts wrote
Because its strong economic thinking. Why spend the extra to buy a private island when in 10 years you'll have one at half the cost
SpottedPineapple86 t1_iusn918 wrote
The water will take the place of where that ice is.
WispyCombover t1_iusrmhs wrote
Right, that covers the arctic. Now look at Greenland and Antartica.
on_surfaces OP t1_iusv9i5 wrote
Exactly. Significantly bigger.
on_surfaces OP t1_iusvx0v wrote
Correct.
Kind of fascinating that the tone in these comments skews toward some weird climate change denial.
whipfinish t1_iuswinr wrote
Antarctica is the highest continent on earth. Over half of that ice is more than 50 meters above current sea level, and it will be lifted even higher as the ice load is reduced during large-scale melting. The Greenland ice sheet creates almost no ice shelves and nearly all of its ice is over 50 meters above sea level.
The ice is not yet in the water.
beetrootdip t1_iutixh1 wrote
Yeah, but god will make it rain over Greenland and make the water stay in a 50 m tall shape.
And I really hope this was obvious - /s
SpottedPineapple86 t1_iutmz9y wrote
I think your physics book collected a lot of dust.
Puzzleheaded-End853 t1_iuucs4i wrote
A comment like that shows you are definitely a liberal. No tolerance for any opinion except your own and when someone says something you don't agree with you resort to childish insults.
modestpump t1_iuusbcn wrote
modestpump t1_iuuscc0 wrote
My girlfriend's farts
Cyberpunkapostle t1_iuvujm2 wrote
RichJuggernaut8008 t1_iwgl47h wrote
Florida will be under water by 2023! Raise the alarm! Sell the beachfront properties!! Eat the bugs!!
qpwoeor1235 t1_iuqa31u wrote
The other two thirds is from your mom taking a dip in the ocean