I used to love math so lets go again.
According to the news reports this new iceberg is about 280 sq. miles.
http://earthsky.org/science-wire/ant...f-rhode-island
There is a lot of discussion about how thick the Antartica icecap is but I'm going to go with 1.6 km because this is not the ice on the land, this is already floating to some extent and 1.6 km is about 1 miles so it will be easier to calculate.
So 280 sq miles times 1 mile and we get 280 cubic miles of ice. How many sq. feet are in one cubic mile? Easy enough, 5280 ft cubed or 147,917,952,000 cubic feet of ice. That's a lot of ice. Anyway (we're going to go from a different angle this time) there is .133681 cubic feet of ice in a gallon of water so.... that is 1.101 trillion gallons of water which is more than just a drop in the bucket to be sure but will it make the oceans rise?
Lets go back to the earlier post, the water of the earth is about 150,792,000 miles so lets do some magic math again. 1.101 trillion gallons divided by 150,792,000 sq miles equals 7302 gallons of water per sq. mile....you know I was pulling for you Stevepar but the facts are the facts. Given ALL the weight (and we know that it is far from all the weight) of a gigantic iceberg being calved means pretty much nothing to the water mass on this planet. Now it could cause a tsunami but that is something else again.
