[Keefelane66]

Originally Posted by Blueblaze

The OP is obviously correct. The response that had me rolling in the aisles was the guy who said the OP was wrong because frozen water expands. That's true -- and if frozen water didn't sink it would cause the water level to go DOWN when the ice melts!

Here are the facts. The OP's experiment (which is performed millions of times every year in science classes all over the world) proves that the entire Northern ice cap could melt and it would not effect sea levels one iota -- except for Greenland, whose ice is not floating.

Antarctica is a different situation. If it melted, sea levels would rise 200 feet. But since the temperature of the entire continent never gets close to 32 degrees (most of it is around -50 for most of the year), you're going to need a lot more than the 2-5 degree warming that the alarmists are predicting. I don't think even Greta Thunberg is dumb enough to predict an 80 degree rise in temperature at the South Pole 100 years from now!

In fact, even the most pessimistic predictions for the next 100 years only predict about 20" of sea level rise, worst case, and most of that comes from Greenland melting (which happened as recently as 1000 years ago). I could give you a link, but if you actually think Florida is at risk, you need to do the research yourself.

Consider this -- 25% of the entire nation of Holland sits on land that is WAY more than 20" below sea level!

I bet in the next hundred years, if we quit worrying and start thinking of practical (rather than political) solutions, we can probably come up with something to keep Miami from getting its feet wet that doesn't involve condemning the entire 3rd world to perpetual poverty, or mowing down entire states for solar panels and windmills.

Hey, I just had a thought! Two words -- floating docks!

Florida’s bedrock is porous limestone estimated to be several hundred to several thousand feet deep a dike wouldn’t work.