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A study in Nature reveals glaciers lost 273 billion metric tons of ice annually since 2000, impacting freshwater resources and sea-level rise.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.commondreams.org/news/glaciers-melting

Study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08545-z


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[-] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago

I’ve never seen an Olympic swimming pool. And even if I had, I wouldn’t have a sense for its volume unless it was empty. Preferred units for water volumes are million acre feet or cubic kilometers annually. Or cubic feet per second or cubic meters per second. Or if you really want to relate to the layperson, I also accept cubic kegs per fortnight.

[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 53 minutes ago

How many washer machines is it?

[-] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 50 minutes ago

Aye! Standard front loading washer loads per week would be another good one.

[-] ElJefe@lemm.ee 6 points 16 hours ago

Can we get a banana for scale?

[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 5 points 17 hours ago

May I please get that in football fields?

[-] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 5 points 17 hours ago

Ask LLM, I heard it likes to math.

[-] pezhore@infosec.pub 2 points 17 hours ago

For you and @Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca, from llama3.2:

So, approximately 8,144,000 football fields would weigh around 273 billion metric tons.

[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago

Holy shit. That's too big to wrap my head around. What if we tried those yellow Blue Bird school busses?

[-] pezhore@infosec.pub 2 points 7 hours ago

A standard Blue Bird bus weighs around 10-15 tons (10,000 - 15,000 kg), depending on the model and configuration. Let's assume an average weight of 12.5 tons (12,500 kg) for this calculation.

Now, let's divide the total weight by the weight of a single bus:

273 billion metric tons ÷ 12,500 kg/bus ≈ 21,800,000 buses

So, approximately 21.8 million Blue Bird school buses would weigh around 273 billion metric tons.

Keep in mind that this is another purely theoretical calculation for entertainment purposes only.

[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

You're the best! 😎

[-] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago

How much is that in vodka shots?

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 2 points 19 hours ago

From Jan 1 2000 to the beginning of today there have been 793,411,200 seconds

That's 2,380,233,600 swimming pools

at 2,500,000 L per pool

so a total volume loss of 5.950584×10¹⁵ L

a shot glass should be 30ml

so that should be around 1.983528×10¹⁴ shots of vodka

Vodka is $76 a L in Australia because fuck me amirite

at a rough cost of $4.52244384×10¹⁷

tl;dr: it's in the title idiot.

[-] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

How about in cubic parsecs?

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 4 points 12 hours ago
[-] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

That's a number alright

[-] vic_rattlehead@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

And the rate is accelerating...

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