The world's biggest iceberg: 19-mile crack in the ice breaking away from Antarctica , page 3

Originally posted by eNumbra

Originally posted by tarifa37
reply to post by boo1981

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The implications could be huge.Once all the floating ice has broken free there would be nothing to stop the glacier from sliding into the sea and thus raising sea levels.

except that it's a piece of ice that's already in the water, thus, already contributing to the sea level and not affecting it after breaking off.

I KNOW thats why if you read my statement properly ( and that also means all the people who gave a star to this reply) you will note that I said there " would be nothing to stop the glacier from sliding into the sea and thus raising sea levels" meaning the GLACIER that is resting on top of the land would have no ice in front of it to stop the gacier from slipping from the land and falling into the sea THUS RAISING sea levels. Please read this and this means you star givers
en.wikipedia.org...

Glaciers form on land, often elevated, and are distinct from the much thinner sea ice and lake ice that form on the surface of bodies of water.

reply to post by jjkenobi

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..but, but, but.. that would mean helping the indigent populace of the planet. That would mean one hell of a setback for the current systematic genocide of the world's poor. Can't be having that now can we

/sarcasm

Seriously though, I know I've stated that myself on at least a couple of occasions. If they're so worried, develop a reliant means of producing clean drinking water for like.. Well pretty much anyone that wants some. I'm sure there are enough thirsty folk to at least hamper the oncoming rise in sea levels?

reply to post by tarifa37

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Well iirc if all the ice in the world melted ie glaciers, all the ice on land Greenland, Antarctica etc world sea level to would rise 85ft so one glacier wouldn't cause that great a change in level.

reply to post by wmd_2008

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Antarctica and Greenland alone would cause the oceans to rise over 200 feet, or around 67 M, as calculated.

www.scientificamerican.com...

The Glaciers in the mountains and places like Alaska are already melting much faster than Greenland and Antarctica, and they would add considerable more.

What we are seeing is that the melt rate and ocean level rise are continuing to accelerate.

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