A chip off the old block
 

I suppose I could have dumped this in one of the existing global warming or energy conservation threads, but it seemed big enough to warrant a home of its own.

I must have missed this before - surely there were stories about the incident in 2005, but intersting to see the aerial shot of how much its moved, and the thought of a few billion tons of ice becoming ocean kind of destroys my previous dismissals of concerns about rising ocean levels.

Plenty of pun material for those so inclined - from 'I'll take Manhattan' to 'What Ayles thee?' - with loads of room for others in between (let alone the one that labels the thread).

Interesting photos accompany the text of the news article - we should now be worried....

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Keep in mind that all the ice in the Arctic, Greenland, glaciers and the Antarctic, adds up to 1.5% of the water on earth. Another 1.5% is in the ground/rivers/lakes and 97% in the oceans.

Also keep in mind that the average depth of the ocean is 12200 feet. 1% of that is 122 feet.

22000 square miles of land on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the US are less than 5 feet above sea level.

Well, that would fix all those rich bastards that are clogging the shoreline with their McMansions, that Federal Flood Insurance(tax money) replaces every few years, and sealing off the beaches.

Keep in mind that if all the polar ice melts, flooding is the least of our worries.

That's why I used 1% instead of 1.5% and 5 feet instead of 122.

0.5% is 61 feet. 0.1% is 12 feet.