Lol like 3%..
BREAKING NEWS ALERT! Antarctica gone down to the pub
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Lol like 3%..
The world will warm up and cool without us, we can't change that. Global warming is so overrated it's untrue.
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you're worried about the world flooding and you're going into an underground bunker?
i'm guessing mensa weren't interested in you....
I don't think any climatologist ever denied that.
The problem with climate change is that we've accelerated the process.
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Prove it
Yes which in the long term affects very little. The amount of scaremongering from scientists and media is laughable. They keep saying we can stop it, we can stop it. No we can't we might be able to slow it down.
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A ship is less dense then water otherwise it wouldn't float. Remember there is a lot of space in the ship below sea level that is taken up by air. It's this air that reduces the average density of the ship allowing it to float. If you were to fill the ship with water the average density would be greater then that of water and it would sink (unless maybe you had built the ship from ice
).Water is one of the exceptions to this rule. When frozen the molecules that make up water (H2O) form a structure that has large gaps in it due to an extra type of bond that forms (Hydrogen Bond). This is why solid water (ice) floats on liquid water.
Just waiting for the "oh crap melting ice does add water to the ocean" then it can all be forgotten.
When the ice melts the structure collapses and the molecules move to fill the gaps making it more dense and reducing in volume. This is why a large block of ice floating in water melting does NOT cause the water level to rise. There is an affect when you start to consider dilution affects with sea water. Also a large concern with climate change is that a large amount of cold ice water flowing into the sea will affect global sea currents which MASSIVELY affect our climate.
Melting ice will cause sea levels to rise when the ice was resting on land. Obviously when this melts and flows into the sea it will increase sea levels.
Read thread before posting, I already called myself a retard.
And then guy backed me up saying I am correct for salt water.
And then guy backed me up saying I am correct for salt water.
However you said Ice was more dense then water (I presume you were referring to liquid) and not sea water.
Read thread before posting, I already called myself a retard.
And then guy backed me up saying I am correct for salt water.
Don't ya hate it when people are right for being wrong
I was pretty much word for word quoting National Geographic channel documentaries about climate change and the interruption of the ocean currents, so they would be on about sea water.
Sorry lol I'm not rubbing it in, I did still truly have a retard moment.Don't ya hate it when people are right for being wrong
Come on the rest of us have admitted we're wrong fess up
Sorry I'm confused, is there something incorrect with what I said?
Ice is fresh water, sea is salt water, salt water is more dense and as such when the ice melts it raises the water level by 2.6% of its displaced volume to the water.
AS ulf said read the thread
Frozen sea-water gradually loses its Salinity by being frozen, all the salt drops down and out to unfrozen water below, so the Ice in Antarctica would actually be fresh-water Ice which is why Polar explorers can melt it and drink it.
Aye and that's why it'll screw up the ocean currents when enough fresh water is dumped.