BigBear wrote: ↑November 1st, 2022, 8:26 am
I just googled the information and looked for the first scientific source that discussed the amount of sea ice versus land ice.
Misleading facts: land ice averages a few kilometers of thickness. That doesn't even pass the sniff test. A kilometer is 6/10ths of a mile in length, so your saying that the average land ice is miles of thickness as in more than 10,000 feet thick? Seriously? You can't even bluff your way by saying it's this thick in the center of Antarctica because we have Messner's account that the center is ice-free.
Congratulations, BigBear, you are one of today's
lucky 10,000! As drm and sgyoung pointed out, the ice in Antarctica averages 2,160 meters thick, and gets as thick as 4,776 meters. 4,776 meters is more than 15,000 feet, or almost
three miles!
At the south pole proper, some of that ice is being put to good use in the form of a one cubic kilometer neutrino detector called
IceCube. In college I had a professor who did research at IceCube's predecessor.
I hope you can appreciate this learning experience, and I also hope you take it as an opportunity to revisit other facts that you may have dismissed out of hand in the past. Who knows how many other cool bits of information you rejected because they failed your "sniff test", and how that might have led you to further incorrect conclusions elsewhere. I understand that some folks out there were never taught this stuff, or never sought to learn it, and that's okay. But what's not okay is to be willfully ignorant, to continue holding on to misinformation when presented with evidence to the contrary, or to spread disinformation to others.