When the ice caps melt...

[Evadne]

Ah, I see.

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[mirabriani]

Hmm!
So if the studies are correct, one suggestion calculates that even in 20 years I am likely to be sailing, average sea levels are only likely to increase by 36mm
Another likelyhood is that sea levels in the British Isles would actually fall.

I was contemplating buying myself a berth and parking spot.
I think I had better wait for further studies. The berth will not be worth much
if the boat is neaped most weekends!

On the other hand, if I press ahead with my ideas to pump seawater from tha Arctic Regions into depressions in the ice fields (therefore allowing it to freeze)
I might yet become a mirrionaire Rodney.

Regards Briani

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[robp]

Easy really - just look at a globe. All that water will just hang on the bottom end! Our levels will probably drop a little as it all rushes past us.

Just be careful when the Antarctic melts and we tip upside down at night..

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[StugeronSteve]

Isn't there a great danger we might tip on our side when the extra water gets to the middle bit?

<hr width=100% size=1>Think I'll draw some little rabbits on my head, from a distance they might be mistaken for hairs.

 

[robp]

Ah, hadn't thought of that! Then we'd be near the equator no?

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[BrendanS]

Well Santa has already moved to Finland, so he's OK
The Polar bears are stuffed though! /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[StugeronSteve]

Yeah... Pass the rum.

<hr width=100% size=1>Think I'll draw some little rabbits on my head, from a distance they might be mistaken for hairs.

 

[FinesseChris]

A couple of years back some naval types in Whitehall did a study on effects of sea level rise. They concluded that all RN dockyards would be useless as even a mnetre or so rise would flood them at HW so the Admiral's Rover or wotever could not be parked safely, nor is it much use if a frigate is alongside and no-one can get at it without a RIB to cross the quay.

Govt took no notice until the officer in charge observed that they'd better start planning an alternative to Westminster because the Thames Barrier would not cope (14 dead in last pre-barrier Westminster flood, 1928).

Response from the Minister: "we can't let that happen, it would collapse London property prices!"

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[Piere]

we'll all be in our boxes by the time this happens .
maybe our greatgrandchildren will benifit fro a coastline cottage in.............. say heathrow
maybe a comeback for the flying boat..................

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[BrendanS]

Given that the Greenland/Polar icecap has now been shown to be melting at a phenomanal rate, with 50% to 100% gone within 50 to 100 years, I expect we'll start seeing the results in the short to medium term, probably before many of us are in our boxes

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[Shakey]

I thought that if the ice caps melt, the sea level will rise but not because the ice has become water, but because the rise in temperature, decrease in salinity causes the water to expand slightly.

Fresh water is most dense at 4 deg C.

<hr width=100% size=1>It could have been worse - it could have been me.

 

[BrendanS]

The water level will rise because of the enormous amount of water that will be released by the icecaps melting. All these calculations take into account whether icecaps are floating or grounded. Only a miniscule amount of rise would be due to decreased salinity

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