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Re:Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could G... by nkoren on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @02:24PM (#17870429)
If Greenland melts, you get 6 meters (20 feet).[1]

1: https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/quickfacts/icesheets.html

Re:Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could G... by wizardforhire on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @03:34PM (#17871080)
Re:Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could G... by southern_cross on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @03:51PM (#17871273)
I found it curious that this research only went back 450 years or so, since that takes you back to just before the Little Ice Age, a time of unusually cold temperatures, at least in the Northern Hemisphere. One wonders what they would have found had they kept going further back in time.

BTW, they already know that a lot of the melting in Greenland is from the bottom up (geothermal) rather than from the top down. But of course you don't hear too much about that, do you?

https://www.newsweek.com/puzzling-heat-deep-inside-earth-mel...

Re:Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could G... by credit_guy on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @05:09PM (#17872075)
Check this out for real time data about the Greenland ice mass budget. (Spoiler: Greenland is not melting)

https://www.dmi.dk/en/groenland/maalinger/greenland-ice-shee...

Re:Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could G... by jerdimus on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @08:17PM (#17873175)
You are right, it's not losing mass through melting.

But it is losing mass when iceberg calving is accounted for.

"Over the year, it snows more than it melts, but calving of icebergs also adds to the total mass budget of the ice sheet. Satellite observations over the last decade show that the ice sheet is not in balance. The calving loss is greater than the gain from surface mass balance, and Greenland is losing mass at about 200 Gt/yr."

Edit: And i thought this article on the scale of a gigaton of water was interesting as well:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...

Re:Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could G... by credit_guy on Thursday August 30, 2018 @06:22AM (#17875502)
200 Gt = 0.007% of the ice mass of Greenland.

Or 0.5mm sea level increase (from your link).