Friday, February 6, 2009

I'll have my earth neat, please

A new study is out on the melting of Antarctica. It turns out that the mass of ice in Antarctica attracts water not unlike the mass of the moon causing the tides. All of it melting over the next couple hundred years has some interesting effects. The sea level in southern Chile and Argentina won't change but the level in the Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico area will rise 16 feet. Sorry Florida, you will lose a lot of land. The North and South Poles will move about 2500 feet, also changing the location of the equator. (... and yes Mike, I'm sure there is a surface tension involvement.) Can't wait.

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