Greenland’s surface area is more than 2 trillion square metres. The average annual snowfall is one metre. That means that two trillion cubic metres of snow falls every year, which compacts to about one trillion cubic metres of ice. In order to remain in equilibrium, one trillion cubic metres of ice has to move into the sea.
If this didn’t happen, the ice sheet would rise past the top of the troposphere in 20,000 years. So next time some climate moron starts throwing around numbers about billions of tons of ice being lost, remind them that they need to go back to primary school and start over with their maths, science and basic thinking skills.
Greenland iceberg attacks Newfoundland!
http://radioactiveliberty.com/an-iceberg-did-attack/
Remember that every tonne of ice lost is a tonne of ice that never comes back…
Yea, theres only so much of the stuff and the knowledge of how it is formed was lost since during pre-normal science times.
Every time you write something like this, another iceberg melts. You’re so unfeeling.
Did they call out Scotland Yard to find the missing ice?
I would have thought that 2 trillion cubic meters of snow compacts to more like 150 billion cubic meters of ice.
Am i wrong?
Well in capitalization …. yes!
Am I wrong?
You know what? I’m embarrassed to admit that this argument has never occurred to me (well not in Steve’s clear cut example).
This also explains why there must be calving and melt somewhere in Antarctica, since according to Wikipedia the current South Pole extent was reached 6 MILLION years ago. That’s a long time.
Steve, this would have made for one of those great Troll Fest posts at WUWT!