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Originally Posted by Clippo
I'll be back to 'politely' point out your complete misunderstanding of the ice melting / sea level rise situation.
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so asking questions is out now then is it clippo? Or does your arrogance always assume a question is born out of misunderstanding?
I'll reiterate my questions:-
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The pace at which both the Arctic sea ice and the Greenland ice sheet is melting has "severely accelerated"
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I take to mean that there is more melting of the ice sheet than previously - ergo more ice has melted, therefore sea level should be affected. My first question - to what extent?
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if sea ice has shrank, then the land ice must have been affected also to some extent as the extract from the article implies. For example, if land ice (for some reason) is only affected by, say, 25% as much as the sea ice, then the land ice will have receded by 10% in round terms. Which, going back to the article, implies about a 90cm increase in ocean level. Which hasn't happended. Does 'severely accelerated' and 'melting' when applied to the greenland icesheet actually mean what it says?
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was my second question.
The overall impact of a complete loss of the greenland icecap is an increase in sea level of somewhere between 7 and 10M, depending on which study you look at. Either way, catastrophic. We have seen shrinkage of the sea ice and draw pack of the pack ice limits, so how much of the greenland ice cap have we lost (q3), and what impact has it had so far on sea levels?(as q1)
No misunderstanding, clipppo, just seeking the clarification of the above.
I can wait for you to talk to your buddies first.