OFF: FLOODS ARE COMING

[Chris Warburton]

Even worse, the soap dish is at an angle, so when the underside melts, the
ice slips off when melting reaches a critical point.  This is the situation
with one of the Antarctic ice sheets. So figure out the size of the
tsunamis if that big mother goes!!!!
ChrisW

>Robert C. Mayo writes:
>
> > and even if it were true that the ice caps will melt, etc, why would that
> > cause flooding, necessarily? when the ice in a glass of icewater melts,the
> > glass doesn't overflow; the 'new' water takes up (nearly) the same space as
> > the ice that it used to be...did.
>
>Good analysis but I have Bad News: while the arctic ice is sea ice, most
>of the antarctic ice is on a shelf, as are the mountain glaciers. What
>happens if you have a full glass with ice on a soap dish above it, and
>then you melt the ice?
>
>FoFP