Why we don’t actually know what the sea rise due to melting ice-caps is going to be.
There appears much confusion and misinformation over what effect the Ice-Caps melting into the sea will have on sea level around the world.
When we look to examples of accepted reference sources, we see no shortage of information, which possibly adds to confusion.
Further, these sources may avoid discussions around quantification of rising sea-levels, as we can see, it appears very easily politicised by either side.
This article shows by calculation why there is so much uncertainty.
Cutting to the chase:
From the reference above, there are around 321 million cubic miles of water in the oceans, and around 5.8 million cubic miles of water in the ice-caps.
The volume of the oceans are added to the volume of the Earth as a sphere.
Initially, to obtain an outrageously worst case, we will consider the ice-caps…
