OFF: Watery Graves and stuff

[Mark Lee]

Answer:

You get bubbles in yer Jack Daniels :)

But:

Apparently we have more chance of tsunamis from landslip than
we do of the same from ice-slip.  It's already happend somewhere
in Scandinavia (ish) a couple of times, estimated wave heights
of over 300 meters IIRC.

Mark (Hasbeen)

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Date:    Wed, 4 Apr 2001 21:43:41 +0100
From:    Chris Warburton <desdinova at MADASAFISH.COM>
Subject: Re: OFF: FLOODS ARE COMING

Even worse, the soap dish is at an angle, so when the underside melts, the
ice slips off when melting reaches a critical point.  This is the situation
with one of the Antarctic ice sheets. So figure out the size of the
tsunamis if that big mother goes!!!!
ChrisW

>Robert C. Mayo writes:
>
> > and even if it were true that the ice caps will melt, etc, why would
that
> > cause flooding, necessarily? when the ice in a glass of icewater
melts,the
> > glass doesn't overflow; the 'new' water takes up (nearly) the same space
as
> > the ice that it used to be...did.
>
>Good analysis but I have Bad News: while the arctic ice is sea ice, most
>of the antarctic ice is on a shelf, as are the mountain glaciers. What
>happens if you have a full glass with ice on a soap dish above it, and
>then you melt the ice?
>