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What are fossil fuels going to do to the land mass? It has the highest elevation on earth.
by johncolanduoni 9y ago
What are fossil fuels going to do to the land mass? It has the highest elevation on earth.
- CamperBob2 9y agoThat might be true in a technical sense, I suppose, although I thought Everest was the highest point on Earth. I can't find any references regarding Antarctica having the highest land elevation; any pointers? And I'm sure it won't all melt. But if we want to preserve the continent's desirable property of complete inaccessibility to non-technologically literate humans for the next 10,000 or more years, it would be worth considering the effects of ACC. Right now it's a good place to store nuke waste for that very reason.
- undersuit 9y ago>I can't find any references regarding Antarctica having the highest land elevation; any pointers? Wikipedia says Antarctica "has the highest average elevation of all the continents", but right now a lot of it is ice. East Antarctica is supposed to be covered with so much ice that a large majority of the land has been compressed below sea level(CTRL+F the wikipedia article for 'isostatic rebound' and view the pictures). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica