Doer
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As a matter of fact, no.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermohaline_circulation
It has the acronym THC... how can you go wrong?
Don't listen to these retards. I find independent thought is what separates us from the Partisan Monkey Class,.
Did you account for the fact that these Ice Shelves are not floating?
They are Shelves. So, the idea that the submerged volume doesn't count may not be cleared yet, in you calculations.
Also, did you account for the fact that this is very dense, fresh water Ice? It will submerge to 90%
The Shelves are self supported, not actually submerged yet, until they break.
Did you account for the idea of cascade failure? You break one shelf, perhaps the Ross first, that will raise the sea below another shelf, and it breaks, etc. Did you account for global Shelf Volume? I bet that is in the published calculation.
Another factor is that melting ice changes the salinity locally in the sea water and that speeds up melting. This is another cascade. Faster melting faster.
Did you account for the fact that if all this fresh water was dumped by the polar ice, over a short period, like 10 decades, it will not only raise the sea, it will stall the deep polar conveyer currents because fresh water will not sink like cold salt water.
That will stall the warm surface currents like the Gulf Stream and it's counter parts in the South Hemisphere and the world does not become a jungle heat tent, with runaway greenhouse effect.
IT BECOMES AN ICE BALL. No heat is conveyed from the Equator. The Albedo War is won by Ice and the Equatorial regions also freeze.
We are pretty sure that has happened before.
Did you tell them that?

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