I know you're a troll, and that I'm not an oceanographer, but: 1. Exactly how is this fact "inconvenient"? Even I know that most ice sheets rest on land, not water.
2. Basic geometry: the 8000x change (from a 1- to 20-foot increase) is only true if you're starting with a circle of radius 0. For a large circle (Earth, which Google tells me has a diameter of 12756 km), the difference between these increases is 20.000009--linear for all practical purposes. Ben On 3/21/07 3:39 PM, "James T. Conklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Inconvenient Facts regarding rising ocean level: > > 1. The ocean level is unchanged when floating ice melts. > > 2. The ocean is a spherical body of water. The ocean volume varies as > the cube of the ocean radius. Therefore, for the ocean radius to increase > 20 feet, the ocean volume must increase 8,000 times more than for a 1-foot > radius increase. For the ocean radius to increase 40 feet, the ocean > volume must increase 64,000 times more than for a 1-foot radius increase.
