[lit-ideas] Re: Fwd: Re: global luke-warming -- addendum
- From: Teemu Pyyluoma <teme17@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 15:21:13 -0700 (PDT)
Paul, you're being silly. If the temperature rises
then thermocline boundary will drop deeper. For back
of envelope calculations you might as well assume 3800
meters deep container (the average depth of oceans) or
you have to explain where all the extra solar energy
goes if you want to stick to your calculation.
In practice sea levels are much more complicated. For
serious study, I'd start with the chapter on sea level
rise on IPCC TAR at
http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/409.htm
Cheers,
Teemu
Helsinki, Finland
--- Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >>TP: The chief cause of rising sea levels would
> anyway be
> >>volume expansion with rising water temperature.
> >
> >In most places in the world, maximum density (4 C)
> of water is
> >attained as shallow as 50 metres. Since, even as
> high as 30 C the
> >density of water only goes down to .996 kg/m3,
> this means that the
> >sea-level would only rise about 8 inches even if
> ALL the surface
> >water in the world rose to 30 C.
>
> .996 should be 996, sorry about that. Maximum is
> 1000 kg/m3 (at
> atmospheric pressure)
>
> p
>
> _________________
> [insert pithy quote here]
> Paul Stone
> pas@xxxxxxxx
> Leamington, ON. Canada
>
>
>
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