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Is their really that much ice on Greenland to make the ocean rise 16-23 feet? "...If melted completely, the Greenland ice sheet contains enough water to raise
by SCAQTony 11y ago
Is their really that much ice on Greenland to make the ocean rise 16-23 feet?
"...If melted completely, the Greenland ice sheet contains enough water to raise sea level by 5-7 meters (16-23 feet)."
Greenland is smaller than Mexico
- rhino369 11y agoThe ice sheet is 1-3km deep. That is almost unfathomable.
- mkempe 11y agoThat's what covered Northern Europe until 12,000 years ago. Sea levels were much lower than today.
- MaysonL 11y agoSee Wikipedia: "It is the second largest ice body in the world, after the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The ice sheet is almost 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi) long in a north-south direction, and its greatest width is 1,100 kilometres (680 mi) at a latitude of 77°N, near its northern margin. The mean altitude of the ice is 2,135 metres (7,005 ft). The thickness is generally more than 2 km (1.2 mi) and over 3 km (1.9 mi) at its thickest point. It is not the only ice mass of Greenland – isolated glaciers and small ice caps cover between 76,000 and 100,000 square kilometres (29,000 and 39,000 sq mi) around the periphery. If the entire 2,850,000 cubic kilometres (684,000 cu mi) of ice were to melt, it would lead to a global sea level rise of 7.2 m (24 ft)."
- SCAQTony 11y agoThank you, they have a ice elevation map that was helpful.