Sentences with phrase «bad back of the envelope»

My very bad back of the envelope calculation says sea level can not rise more than 800 feet before the ocean boils.

Not exact matches

My next step was to do a couple of back - of - the - envelope calculations as to what might be worst case scenarios.

I think things get even worse when you consider the real physics rather than the linear back of the envelope.

Imagine if Waxman - Markey had passed within the envelope of both major ocean circulations going negative...... Grand recession / solar minima / end extreme eccentricity minima interglacial or not, we could be sitting around now, swilling non-carbonated champagne, patting each other on the back, celebrating the FACT that we had quelled the heathen devil promulgated sea level rising to the AR4 worst case scenario of 0.59 meters, only to watch it go +6 M etc,.