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To: Snowshoe who wrote (58669)1/10/2005 1:33:29 PM
From: RealMuLan  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 74559
 
That is an agressive estimate. The USGS site has this:
Estimated Present-Day Area* and Volume* of Glaciers
and Maximum Sea Level Rise Potential
From: Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World
Chapter A: Introduction (U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1386-A)
Editors: Richard S. Williams, Jr., and Jane G. Ferrigno

Maximum sea
Geographic             Area      Percent      Volume      Percent    level rise
  region               (km2)                   (km3)                  potential (m)**
    
Ice caps, ice          680,000A     4.24       180,000A      0.55       0.45***
fields, valley  
glaciers, etc. 
 
Greenland       
(Inland Ice)         1,736,095B    10.82     2,600,000B      7.90       6.50    
  Local ice             48,599B     0.30        20,000B      0.06       0.05
  caps and 
  other 
  glaciers

Antarctic           13,586,400C    84.64    30,109,800C     91.49      73.44****

  East Antarctica   10,153,170              26,039,200                 64.80
  
  West Antarctica    1,918,170               3,262,000                  8.06
  
  Antarctic            446,690                 227,100                  0.46
  Peninsula

  Ross Ice Shelf       536,070                 229,600                  0.01
  
  Ronne-Filchner       532,200                 351,900                  0.11
  ice sheves
  
Totals              16,051,094    100.00    32,909,800     100.00      80.44


pubs.usgs.gov

What I was saying in my last post is: you can only add a certain amount of ice cubes to a glass before the water level in the glass changes.

According to this site,
elmhurst.edu
If the volume of melted water from added ice cubes is more than 9% of the volume of the water in the glass, then the water level of the glass will increase.

If I still cannot make myself understood, then I give it up<g>


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