Sea Level Rise by Climate Change. An order-of-magnitude approach to an environmental problem

Abstract

A figure, taken from a science literacy test, illustrates the distribution of water across various locations on Earth, represented as though the entire volume is contained in 100 buckets. Using this figure , and other basic, readily available geographic information one can deduce the approximate value of about 70m for the rise in sea level due to the melting of all Earth's land ice, a value often discussed in media and public discourse.