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Environment & Energy

Cartoonist

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6. I don't get the math

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Mon Aug 5, 2019, 05:15 PM

Aug 2019

Greenland only looks big on a map. Even if Greenland's ice sheet was 200 feet thick, once that water was added to the ocean, it couldn't possibly raise it 20 feet around the globe.

I think the mistake is in the way they framed it. If warming continues, and it's hot enough to melt Greenland, it's going to melt everything else.

It sounds like they're blaming Greenland, and maybe we should install some refrigerators before it's too late.

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20 frickin feet...goodbye Miami, Long Island, and many others.. [View all] pbmus Aug 2019 OP

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I don't get the math Cartoonist Aug 2019 #6

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