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Texas is 0.2% the area of the oceans. Large icebergs are about 500' thick. 3' is not trivial, but no, coastal states would not be underwater.
by throwaway5752 9y ago
Texas is 0.2% the area of the oceans. Large icebergs are about 500' thick. 3' is not trivial, but no, coastal states would not be underwater.
- jsjohnst 9y agoWest Antarctic Ice Sheet (which is massively destabilizing and what I was thinking about when I made my original reply) averages something like an order of magnitude thicker than your 500’ thick. So 30’ rise assuming your math is right would make a significant amount of coastal area flooded.
- throwaway5752 9y agoI've read that it is a predicted 10' sea level rise if that collapses (probably because it already displaces a lot of water)... but honestly, my hearts not in arguing the point. AGW is the most critical threat facing humanity either way.
- jsjohnst 9y ago> my hearts not in arguing the point. Mine neither. I wasn’t basing the 30’ on sources I’d read, just what you said combined with what I knew the thickness to be. 10’ is pretty serious (big chunk of Manhattan / South Florida would be underwater), do you happen to have a link for that handy? If not, I’ll try to find in Google.
- throwaway5752 9y agoIt was wikipedia, but I chased the references down to the source material in Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/11/just-nudge-could-collapse-west-antarctic-ice-sheet-raise-sea-levels-3-meters http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/11/just-nudge-could-coll...