Ok so let us crunch the numbers shall we?
Let us take the lower limit of the Greenland at 150 cm/year
Multiply by 45 years to get 6750 cm Divide by 2.54 to arrive at inches. 2657 inches divided by 12 equals 221 feet of rainfall. I can be persuaded for the moment to assume that when frozen this could become 75 feet. (we must for sake of argue ment understand that this is imprecise since snowfall contain 10 times as much water)
Anyway we shall go to
http://polarmet.mps.ohio-state.edu/...tracts/abs.CBV.97.html for this data on Antarctica.
For the eleven year period 1985-95, the average continental value is 151 mm yr-1 water-equivalent.
151 mm into 3 miles or 4.8 km
4.8 km = 4,800,000 mm
divded by 151 mm = 31788 years
This is all very imprecise but as an example it gives us a firm foundation on which to get ahold of better data and see where the numbers take us.
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