The amount of lava erupted to form the Hawaiian - Emperor chain is calculated to be at least 750,000
cubic kilometers - more than enough to blanket the
entire State of California with a layer of lava roughly 1.5 km thick.
First, as was widely reported back in 2006 — and thus well known to Lomborg while writing Cool It — the first - ever gravity survey of the
entire Antarctic ice sheet by NASA and German scientists using a satellite launched in 2002 found «Antarctica's ice sheet decreased by 152 (plus or minus 80)
cubic kilometers of ice annually between April 2002 and August 2005.»