----- Original Message ----- From: "Ricardo Aráoz" <[email protected]> To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 1:13 PM Subject: Re: [OT] Island succumbs to rising oceans
Gérard Lochon wrote: > You know about Archimède, buoyancy, and so on. > > Practical application : you put an ice cube in a glass, then fill the > glass > of water. > When the ice has melted, does the glass overflow ? > It depends on how full of water the glass was. > So, how can melting ice in the sea submerge as much lands as heard > nowadays > ? > (snip) > Ok, let's see. If the ice is floating freely in the see then 1/8 of it's > volume is above the sea, so as soon as the ice has melted that eighth is > extra water. With less volume than the ice. > The real answer is that most ice > is not floating in the sea, it is over land and when that ice melts it > goes into the sea producing (...) a rise in the water level .... When glaciers melt, the water thus generated is fed from springs that generate streams that flow into the sea. A sea-level variation with such effects as shown should lead to a huge increase in river flow. Is this the case particularly found ?? Hum ... next one ? Gérard. [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/427a92a387144635b85db36a5b208...@muriellepc ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
