Sea Level Rise due to melting ice in Antarctica

If all the ice in Antarctica melts, the oceans will rise by over 200 feet.

.7 x RISE = (.09 x .3) x 5280

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Oceans cover .7 of surface of planet.
Antarctica covers (.09 x .3) surface of a planet.
Average thickness of ice in Antarctica is one mile = 5280 feet.

RISE = 203 feet

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(Antarctica is 9% of total landmass which is 30% of surface of the planet)

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As simple as this equation is, it has still taken me about five years to refine it. Originally I used .05 for surface area of Antarctica, but that was including the ice mass, which is largely over water. The present calculation assumes the "total landmass is one minus the surface area of the water" and "Antarctica is nine percent of the total landmass"

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William Schaeffer