Sentences with phrase «thickness of a dime»

So David what are your reactions to article such as the one linked by Alex above discussing fears about Antarctica glaciers adding 10 feet to the Global Sea Level when the IPCC AR5 WGI states explicitly that the current annual increase in GMSL from Antarctica is 20 % of the thickness of a dime and that the IPCC forecast for 2100 is to have the Antarctic glaciers adding only.05 Meter to Global Mean Sea Level.

In case you don't know, that is 20 % of the thickness of a dime.

Given that a dime is 1.35 mm thick, that means the sea level rise is only 1 / 20th of the thickness of a dime per year.

Not exact matches

The lakes are fed by geothermal heat that seeps up from the Earth's interior, melting away the bottom of the ice sheet at a rate of several dime - thicknesses per year and liberating water from the ice.

First, JCH throws up an air ball on some PDFs at a bunch podunk villages and then you fall for a scare story about a golf course where the water has risen in the last 100 years to the tune of the thickness of 5 dimes.

That is precisely 20 % of the thickness of a US dime.