The Melting: Lize Spit

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Unclear Engineer said:It is amusing to see people posting about "natural cycles" as a reason to not believe that sea level will rise.Past climate changes provide examples of both how susceptible and how world changing climate change can be. They aren't evidence that current warming is natural or harmless. Climate science deniers are often unmoved by facts or reason and ultimately descend into conspiracy theories - because how else can every science agency that studies climate keep saying it is real and very serious? And get all those satellites that show evidence of a warming world to agree too? Even Intelligence Agencies - that appear to agree the science is sound and the climate problem is serious - are in on it?

So, this article is just looking at some of the melting mechanisms for one glacier at one point in time. And, it doesn't say how fast it is predicted to happen. So, not really much useful info. In fact, it seems to indicate that humans might somehow stop the melting.

Melting Point Determination

Freezing point" redirects here. For other uses, see Freezing point (disambiguation). Ice cubes put in water will start to melt when they reach their melting point of 0 °C And the point I was trying to make is that, if somebody really is a believer in the effects of the natural cycles playing a role in how the climate is warming, today, then he/she should note that those cycles are currently shifting towards more solar energyt going into Antarctica and less into the Arctic at this time and into the future for quite a while. So, the conclusion should still be that the sea level is going to rise due to melting of Antarctic glaciers. How the specific glaciers behave is just details of the overall process. For most substances, melting and freezing points are approximately equal. For example, the melting and freezing points of mercury is 234.32 kelvins (−38.83 °C; −37.89 °F). [2] However, certain substances possess differing solid-liquid transition temperatures. For example, agar melts at 85°C (185°F; 358K) and solidifies from 31°C (88°F; 304K); such direction dependence is known as hysteresis. The melting point of ice at 1 atmosphere of pressure is very close [3] to 0°C (32°F; 273K); this is also known as the ice point. In the presence of nucleating substances, the freezing point of water is not always the same as the melting point. In the absence of nucleators water can exist as a supercooled liquid down to −48.3°C (−54.9°F; 224.8K) before freezing. [ citation needed]

Sure, if you hand the issue over to others who do have other agendas in "you care so much, you fix it" style you can conveniently argue it is their other agendas that prevents you from supporting commitments to mitigate the problem but the science based advice has been the same advice irrespective of political leanings. By choosing to face up to it head on you can promote the means you think best - including your own agendas. No-one is stopping you. A Kofler bench is a metal strip with a temperature gradient (range from room temperature to 300°C). Any substance can be placed on a section of the strip, revealing its thermal behaviour at the temperature at that point. Differential scanning calorimetry gives information on melting point together with its enthalpy of fusion. Here T, ΔS and ΔH are respectively the temperature at the melting point, change of entropy of melting and the change of enthalpy of melting.

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Assuming that all atoms in a crystal vibrate with the same frequency ν, the average thermal energy can be estimated using the equipartition theorem as [16] E = 4 π 2 m ν 2 u 2 = k B T {\displaystyle E=4\pi The metal with the highest melting point is tungsten, at 3,414°C (6,177°F; 3,687K); [4] this property makes tungsten excellent for use as electrical filaments in incandescent lamps. The often-cited carbon does not melt at ambient pressure but sublimes at about 3,700°C (6,700°F; 4,000K); a liquid phase only exists above pressures of 10MPa (99atm) and estimated 4,030–4,430°C (7,290–8,010°F; 4,300–4,700K) (see carbon phase diagram). Hafnium carbonitride (HfCN) is a refractory compound with the highest known melting point of any substance to date and the only one confirmed to have a melting point above 4,273K (4,000°C; 7,232°F) at ambient pressure. Quantum mechanical computer simulations predicted that this alloy (HfN 0.38C 0.51) would have a melting point of about 4,400 K. [5] This prediction was later confirmed by experiment, though a precise measurement of its exact melting point has yet to be confirmed. [6] At the other end of the scale, helium does not freeze at all at normal pressure even at temperatures arbitrarily close to absolute zero; a pressure of more than twenty times normal atmospheric pressure is necessary. Further information: List of elements by melting point Melting points (in blue) and boiling points (in pink) of the first eight carboxylic acids (°C)