From: <EvMick@aol.com>
> One other item in the book that bothered me. I've heard it mentioned by
> "gloom and doom" types on radio and I've pretty much discounted it. The
idea
> is that were the Ross Ice Shelf in Antartica to be released so that it
went
> floating off it would destabilize the earths rotation with ugly
results....
> Kinda like a tire out of balance.
>
> My feeling is that the mass disparity is too great. The mass of the
> Antartic Ice in comparison to the mass of the earth is less than comparing
a
> pebble in the tread of one of my trucktires......no big deal....and
besides
> my autobalancers would compenstate...as would the ocean compensate...
Nova covered this:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2508warnings.html
They didn't say anything about the earth's rotation, as I recall. The
concern is that the water levels would rise.
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