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Environment & Energy

localroger

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12. The math

Reply to Cartoonist (Reply #11)

Mon Aug 5, 2019, 05:53 PM

Aug 2019

Area of Greenland: 2.1 million square kilometers
Area of the oceans: 360 million square kilometers
Assuming glaciers average 1 kilometer thick (they are up to 3+ km in places)
2.1 divided by 360 = 0.0058 kilometers = 5.8 meters = yep, about 20 feet.

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