100 Reasons Why AGW is Overstated or Bunk

Off Topic Politics & World Issues
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[quote]Vegita wrote:
The Mississippi River carries about 210 x 10^6 tons per year. [see Scott M. Mclennan “Weathering and Global Denudation”, Journal of Geology , 101:2, p. 296)

That works out to be 210 x 10^9 kg per year. There are 2400 kg per cubic meter, so dividing we have 210 x 10^9 kg per year / 2400 kg per cm = 87,500,000 cubic meters per year. A good assumption is that the other rivers emptying into the Gulf probably are equivalent to another Mississippi River. Thus we will assume that 175,000,000 cubic meters per year are deposited

Here is an estimate of how many cubic meters of sediment is dumped into just the gulf of mexico Annually.

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Looks like we have the beginnings of a new crisis here

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[quote]Vegita wrote:
Hey sorry to get off topic here, but New York City being under water got me thinking. How hard would it be to float a city? I mean get underground and start making huge spaces and then fill them with some sort of foam, but it would have to be really deep and thick, You would have to do some engineering to see how boyant the foam was and how much of it you would need to float say double the weight of the city just to be safe. Anyways, I wonder if it would be something we try to do instead of just abandoning a city like NY to rising sea levels.

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Check out http://www.oceania.org/