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given that the melting of the thing could cause ocean levels to rise by up to amost a meter (or even more if it has a cascading effect on other ice masses in th
by Barrin92 5y ago
given that the melting of the thing could cause ocean levels to rise by up to amost a meter (or even more if it has a cascading effect on other ice masses in the area) that is actually appropriately named.
- gengelbro 5y agoOK, then what do you call something astronomically worse than this, say a mile wide astroid strike? You see that you have no more granularity? That you can't describe it as worse than a meter of sea level rise?
- sp332 5y agoI don't think we need more granularity, but you could propose a more appropriate word for a global catastrophe of this scale then.
- scarygliders 5y agoUtter nonsense, and goes against any known physics. If an iceberg is already floating in the ocean, then it has already displaced that ocean by an amount. Just in exactly the same way an ice cube has already displaced surrounding water in a glass. If or when the aforementioned iceberg melts, there will be no further raising of sea level - because the level was already displaced. Same as with the ice cube in the glass of water.
- Barrin92 5y agoIf you've read the article you will have found the explanation there. The problem isn't the already floating ice, which indeed does not rise the sea level, but the land ice the floating mass is attached to.
- scarygliders 5y agoAnd that's because of the high geothermal activity underneath the glacier. [0] Nothing to do with cLiMaTe ChAnGe. [0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00242-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00242-3 - "High geothermal heat flow beneath Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica inferred from aeromagnetic data" - 17-Aug-2021
- Barrin92 5y agoClimate change is one contributor to the dynamics of that glacier, so yes it has a lot to do with it, but either way this has nothing to do with your original post, in which you apparently weren't even aware of the fact that the melting of the glacier would rise the sea level which your provided source also states, so I'm glad we have at least made progress on that front.
- AtlasBarfed 5y agoThis user is pasting this one study all over this thread, and now has mockery and belittlement. He's likely an astroturf troll.
- scarygliders 5y ago"He's presenting information which I disagree with, therefore he must be a troll" Please listen to yourself.