[Greenbuilding] Climate breakdown is here. (polar ice melt)
Eli Talking
elitalking at rockbridge.net
Fri Aug 31 07:32:12 CDT 2012
My understanding is the reason water ice has a higher volume than water liquid is that it entraps air in the crystal structure. My hunch is that if you subtracted the volume of gas air within the ice structure, the volume of the water would be less than the liquid equivalent by weight.
Eli
From: Steven Tjiang
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 11:55 AM
To: Green Building
Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Climate breakdown is here. (polar ice melt)
I don't think it's the ice in the water that will raise sea levels; It's all the ice that isn't in the water (i.e. Green land and Antarctica). Also if the sea ice is melting it also likely the landlocked ice is also melting and thus adding more water to the "tub".
---- Steve (KZ6LSD)
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Joe Killian <kaa-ajk at sonic.net> wrote:
Classic trick high school question:
Fill a glass with ice, add water to the brim (top of ice will float higher). Let it melt. Does it overflow?
Answer: No. The weight (mass) of water displaced by the floating ice is the same as the weight of all the ice, which is also the same volume of the displaced water once melted.
So melting sea ice doesn't raise (or lower) sea level.
The fresh water added to the ocean, however, may well accelerate the feared effect of the melting Greenland ice adding fresh water to the North Atlantic and potentially (inevitably?) changing the course of the Gulf Stream. Whereupon northern Europe's climate becomes more like Siberia's climate.
Hang on....
Joe
On 8/29/2012 8:32 AM, Alan Abrams wrote:
if salt water is more dense than fresh--then when the ice pack melts, does this not result in a rise in sea level? No, wait, ice contracts when it melts. But most of a floating mass of ice is submerged, and the volume of the exposed mass is equal to the increase in volume as a result of freezing...
...ouch. my head hurts.
-AA
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