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Re:Scientists discover fossil plants beneath mile-deep Green... by fsloth on Thursday March 18, 2021 @01:19AM (#26499881)
Melting the entire Greenland ice sheet would cause a 7.2 m sea level rise globally. So the questions will it melt and how fast are quite ... interesting.
Re:Scientists discover fossil plants beneath mile-deep Green... by LinuxBender on Thursday March 18, 2021 @10:54AM (#26503314)
This is probably a little off topic, but it can all melt in a few hours with one decent sized asteroid. This happened before in Greenland. [1] Geologists have confirmed the impact that melted all the ice due to the existence of billions of microscopic diamonds in the crater. My question is, are we monitoring enough of space to know if a big rock is coming and what will people do?

[1] - https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/massive-crater-under...

Re:Scientists discover fossil plants beneath mile-deep Green... by selftest on Thursday March 18, 2021 @10:13PM (#26509605)
If an asteroid of sufficient size were to strike Greenland, I think sea levels rising would be pretty far down the “this is definitely going to kill us all” list.
Re:Scientists discover fossil plants beneath mile-deep Green... by LinuxBender on Friday March 19, 2021 @01:34PM (#26516088)
Absolutely. I believe it was estimated that asteroid was equivalent to something like 3000+ nuclear bombs all detonating at the same time.
Re:Scientists discover fossil plants beneath mile-deep Green... by misja111 on Thursday March 18, 2021 @07:56AM (#26501727)
In some places it will rise, in some others not: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/how-melting-ice-shee...
Re:Scientists discover fossil plants beneath mile-deep Green... by 0xdde on Thursday March 18, 2021 @09:04AM (#26502225)
What's the point of bringing this up? On average it is still going to be a tremendous rise.
Re:Scientists discover fossil plants beneath mile-deep Green... by TheAdamAndChe on Thursday March 18, 2021 @09:11AM (#26502279)
It's important to mention the subtleties so we can best prepare, and so that naysayers can't point to localized sea level drops as proof that global warming is a hoax.
Re:Scientists discover fossil plants beneath mile-deep Green... by aww_dang on Thursday March 18, 2021 @05:36AM (#26500944)
Paradoxically, Greenland's coastline is expected to see a relatively lower sea level in this scenario.

https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2020/02/05/greenland-rising-th...

Re:Scientists discover fossil plants beneath mile-deep Green... by nightcracker on Thursday March 18, 2021 @06:39AM (#26501311)
That is 361.1 million km^2 * 7.2m = 2.6 × 10^18 liters. Or a cube of side length 137.5km of water.