Greenland Ice Melt Adding 0.59 Millimeters To Sea Level Per Year -- NASA, The Folks Who Crashed A $125-Million Climate Orbiter Due To Simple Math Error

This may be the best story of the day to put things into perspective when you think about Syria.

Get out your metric rulers, folks. Find the centimeter mark. Yes, the mark that is about half-an-inch. (I need to use a magnifying glass at my age.)

Now, if you squint really hard, you can see the ten little hash marks that make up one centimeter. Each of those little hash marks is one millimeter. Yes, those little things. Millimeters. Ten of them in about half-an-inch.

Back in 2011 (most recent data), sea levels rose by about half of one of those millimeters from the ice that melted from Greenland. Yes, I know you can't see it, but believe it. If Bloomberg and NASA said Greenland ice melt contributed 0.59 millimeters to global sea levels then it must be true.

Not reproducible. The only place they can measure 0.59 millimeters is in computer modeling: garbage in, garbage out. So, we will cap and tax our American businesses, ignore China's contribution to "global warming," and worry about 0.59 millimeters -- half of one of the ten little hash marks on a metric ruler.

I can't make this stuff up.

Hidden in this article was this data point. The amount of ice in Greenland and the Arctic is a small percent of the total ice in Antarctic. Over the past decade the Antarctic probably increased in size by as much as 2 percent.

By the way. Who are some of the folks measuring this 0.59 millimeter rise in the sea levels? NASA. Aren't they ones that forgot to convert feet to meters and snowballed a $125-million Mars Climate orbiter into Mars? LOL:

NASA lost its $125-million Mars Climate Orbiter because spacecraft engineers failed to convert from English to metric measurements when exchanging vital data before the craft was launched, space agency officials said Thursday.

A navigation team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory used the metric system of millimeters and meters in its calculations, while Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver, which designed and built the spacecraft, provided crucial acceleration data in the English system of inches, feet and pounds.

$125 million. Forget to convert feet to meters. I can't make that up either.