graywolf wrote: > Well, I do not feel all that sorry for you. If sea level was to rise a > half-meter half or Flordia would be gone, if it rose a meter there would > just be a few little islands where millions of people now live. And they > would only be a small percentage of the people effected through out the > world. A lot of Holland, I understand, is actually below sea level. > > On the other hand, here is some homework for you. How many gallons of > water would have to be added to the worlds oceans to raise sea level 1/2 > meter? Next question, how many gallons of water are in the worlds ice > caps.
You mean above sea leel? > Now last question, if the worlds mean temperature went up 10 > degrees, how long would it take to entirely melt the ice caps. TEN degrees? F? Almost unthinkable. I mean, it would never do that short of a genuine Armageddon. World flips poles, stuff like that! Rises we have to worry about, if we want to do that, are more in the order of 1/2 to 3/4 degree! That does enough all by itself. Even 1 degree is unbelievable... I know of no mechanism that would cause that. > One of the things that we forget is just how big a place the world is. > We think in terms of our town, our city. I have crisscrossed the US by > car, train, bus, and a lot of it on foot. Even with that experience it > is so big I have a hard time imagining it. The US is a only a small > portion of the land in the world. The oceans are 3 times as big as all > the land combined. Think of that. That's just surface area! > Oh yes, and quit watching disaster movies. keith -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
