Samwik
10,800 cubic kilometers of water has been impounded on land to date
as of 2008 the world oil consumption is at 76 million barrels per day.
1 barrel = 48 gallons
that equals 3.684 billion gallons per day.
1.344 trillion gallons per year
310 trillion cubic inches per year
179 billion cu ft per year
1 cubic mile
5280 ft x 5280 ft x 5280 ft = 147,197,952,000 cu ft
current world oil consumption = 1.216 cu miles per year
I believe I read that the water flooding method is used apx 95% of the time so you can estimate that there is apx 1.15 cu miles of water going into the oil wells per year.
also you can estimate that an area of 63,360 sq miles at a depth of 1 inch per year is being removed from the picture when the picture is sea level rise.
in the ballpark..
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and now the 10,800 cu kilometers = 6,696 cu miles
Earth's Diameter at the Equator: 7926.28 miles
Approximately 79% of the Earth's surface
(an area of some 140 million square miles)
is covered by ocean.
6,696 cu miles x 5280 ft x 12" = 424,258,560
so they have dropped the sea level by 3.02 inches storing water.
or a sq mile all the way through the earth just above the equator.
thats a lot of stored water !!!
water is cyclic if they store that much water it can be said that the water came from the ocean , because it was not allowed to flow into the oceans.
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we dont see all this as a sea level decrease , why?
maybe they dont want us to...
maybe its thermal expansion , if its thermal expansion then they are setting us up for the biggest methane release since the one that ended the last ice age...
water expanded still presents the same pressure to the methane ice...
if water is removed from the oceans then the oceans expanded thermaly little by little it might appear the same but it weighs less and presents less pressure at the ocean floor.
every year were getting closer and closer to a release.
and large methane releases trigger other releases.
it dominoes.
of course as it stands there are several reasons that there is not much thermal expansion today , but what happens when the ice stops melting and the magma stops cooling , and the waters begin to heat up?
it might be better to lose some shore line than to keep covering up the rising sea levels.
Samwik: thanks
BTW: 1 cu mile of fresh water only weighs 9.1 gigga tonnes.
and there is supposed to be apx 300 gigga tonnes melting each year?
thats 32 cu miles of water per year.
or 2,027,520 sq miles 1 inch high.
