the ocean levels would rise because the ice caps are on top of land too. antartica, greenland are land masses that have ice. when those melt it will flow to the ocean causing global sea levels to rise.
It's hard to believe people are so dumb that they think this disproves rising ocean levels. Talk about a fundamental misunderstanding of geography (the ice on the ice caps? It's sitting on top of bedrock, people, it's not floating in the damned ocean.)
I just wanted to see a video about a childhood mentor and this is the first result that comes up? God in heaven.
I don't have space to list all the ways this stupid global warming fiasco has been debunked, over and over again. What's the next calamity for you liberals to bleat about?
The problem with this video is, if anyone has ever let a glass of ice water melt to that degree, they would remember that the condensation on the outside of the cup or glass would have made the saucer wet and that proves that he didn't let the experiment go untouched, Though the result may have been it was tampered with. Not griping, Just an observation.
@cristynessable Really? That's your observation? Not that a proven scientific principle is demonstrated and that knowledge is being passed to the next generation... but that condensation, a complication to the experiment which may have been misinterpreted by a young audience who have no experience in this area, may have been removed for demonstation purposes? Really? THAT'S your observation? You are pathetic.
@cristynessable You should know, condensation like that does not occur in dry climates. Come down to New Mexico and let a glass of ice melt and note the complete dryness of the table on which is sits.
@nexusutube...If you think about it, it really doesn't matter what the land masses are floating on and by removing the weight of the ice over these land masses they would then float higher. In the case of Antarctica, Iceland and Greenland they all float over the mantel. This whole idea that human intervention has caused global warming and hence the reduction of our polar ice is a scare tactic to enlist the finacial aid of those that are scared. I can hear the ching ca ching can't you?
I love the back and forth on this with Polar Ice caps. Many are right, it's not all floating, only 90% of it is floating. But there are a lot of elements to consider. For instance, some of the land locked ice, when melted, will be trapped inland still. Meaning that it may never be added to ocean with exception of rainfall. I can't say one way or the other. But the OP is 90% right. Though, it was not Mr Wizards intention to debunk polar ice melting.
I almost accepted it, except that it's only half-correct, that melting ice caps won't flood coastlines by displacement. It may be true for the Arctic ice, however, Antarctic ice, much like the many glaciers around the world, actually sits on land. Since most of the global ice is on land, and not displacing the oceans, it'll rise.
Then again, we do loose some our atmosphere out into space as the Earth heats up, like the steam escaping from around the lid of a pan of boiling water.
1) he isn't addressing global warming directly, he is commenting on the behavior of water as it changes phases
2) if he was addressing it, he would note that most of the ice is outside of the ocean like on top of greenland or antarctica. its not just floating around in the ocean like the icecubes in the demonstration.
to demonstrate what would happen, he would have filled the large glass with liquid water, melted the ice in the small one, and added the water to the large glass.
@hancho17 Of course, you are also not taking into account what would happen to the land masses after the release of the billions of tonnes of pressure no longer upon them. They would naturally rise.
Did anyone ever tell you that the land masses like Antarctica and Greenland are also a floating mass. When the weight of the ice in those areas is removed THEY also float higher countering the additional water in our oceans as well as countering your hypotheses.
@kycatsbboy Land masses aren't floating on the oceans. Sea levels do rise and lower depending on the ice caps. Look up Doggarland it was a landmass 8000 years ago that connected England to France and has archeological remains.
1) If Mr. Wizard was directly addressing global warming or not the science is sound, so it is relative to the topic. That's a political answer not a scientific one.
2) Has ice on mountain tops always been the point and not the ice in the ocean? Has that been the stance of the Global warming community the whole time? I only remember floating icebergs being used as an example.
I also heard the earths been warming for a long time now, even before Industrial revolution? Is that true?
DUH. It's not debunked because the ice was already in the water. If the ice was outside of water (AKA: On land) then it would make the water level rise.
if the icecaps were floating that'd be one thing... but the icecaps and glaciers are often on land NOT on water. they are correct if all polar ice was floating. if floods didn't come from icemelt explain how when the north American ice sheet melted it left behind all the lakes in the northern part of the US? many are.... Meltwater from the ice sheet! and if the icecaps begin to melt that are on Greenland and northern Alaska and Canada, levels will likely rise because not all that ice FLOATS.
they should have stacked the glass so it didn't float if climate related flooding was in question(a challenge, original poster and ppl who use this to debunk climate change?). they were merely demonstrating mass, density, and volume. h2o is one of few substances that doesn't contract when going liquid to solid, it expands! Michigan Dept. of Transportation will groan about that fact :)
I thought that was just a really really awkward little boy that entire fucking video... Or he might have had some type of thing that made him slow. I don't know. But what the fuck?! That was a girl?... Damn, I feel like an ass. Sorry, little girl!
Mr. Wizard should have known better than to you the word "theory" when he really meant "hypothesis." It's shit like that that makes people say stupid things like "evolution is just a theory."
The ice cap theory is sound. Iceburgs: Most of it is actually underwater. You can talk about the ice shelves which are on land but it doesn't really matter. There's also the fact that we typically defeat nature. Ocean rising? Build canals and give water to dry cities (Las Vegas). The rate of melting and then evaporation would spread it across lands. There's a lot more to this but I am limited in the characters to respond. The theory IS sound.
@topazeyes Your logic is unsound. The ice above the glass is still ice that is floating IN the glass. A majority of the ice in the Arctic and Antarctic is on the continents, NOT a piece of a chunk of ice already floating in the water. As the ice on the continents melt, it drains into the sea, thus ADDING volume, increasing the sea level.
Arctic is is floating ice but you are right with Antarctic. I guess you meant Greenland which is close by and its ice is on solid grounds. We shouldn´t forget the glaciers all around the globe as well - most of them are melting too.
Ask a woolly Mammoth about man made global warming. it shows how much greenhouse gas these people are full of. Hit that with your hockey stick Ale I invented air Gore !!!!!!!
The only REAL point is that that no matter what we do WE don't have control over this process and we should understand that the Earth will do what the Earth will do. In the long run we should be more concerned with overpopulation which is what those that "HAVE" are angry because the "HAVE NOTS" will take the dwindleing recourses and make life difficult. The end will come and those with their private stocks and Armies will be the only survivers not some ice cap melting.
Apparently the person who posted this doesn't understand what a glacier is or that there are landmasses under them, like Antarctica and Greenland. A proper comparison to global warming would be if there was also a funnel filled with ice that had been suspended over the glass. Since there wasn't, this video cannot be used to address the results of the ice sheets melting at all.
You could have seen any excess water on the table. That plate was completely unnecessary. wtf is she using it like a waitress to bring the glasses over to the faucet and back? Either don't use a plate or just leave the plate on the counter. You got two glasses and two hands. Carry them to the faucet, then carry them back. What the christ is this happy horse sh*t?
First of all I'm gonna say I'm no activist.That said, this is flawed science. I'm going to concede that a massive amount of the earths ice is below sea level. And ice cubes r less dense than water.But we are not talking about ice cubes formed in the freezer under 0 pressure.The ice of Antarctica is under immense pressure from its own weight that it actually presses down on the earths crust (isostatic depression).Still we're talkin 4/5 ft per 1000 years @ current rate.I move way faster than that.
@razordu30 Yeah but who raised this stupid generation? It all depends on the parenting. What you teach them and etc. I'm 16 myself but I listen to Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and etc and I love science and etc. I'm not saying that my father forced me to listen to Hendrix or love science, he was just a guy who liked science and old music so we shared time together and I'm sort of a product of him, lol.
It's proper science. Mr. Wizard said nothing about the ice caps. Just a fun demonstration inappropriately attributed (misapplied) by whomever posted the vid.
This by no means has anything to do with shores not flooding. Shores most definitely will flood with ice cap melting. I don't think that that is the point he is trying to make.
First off: He isn't disproving global warming, he is disproving that if ice BERGS, melt it will not rise the sea level severely.
Second: There seems to be a fundamental confusion about the difference between ice BERGS and ice CAPS. Ice BERGS are the ice cubes, otherwise known as the mass accounted for. Ice CAPS are ice that is ON LAND. If ice CAPS melted, it would be the equivalent of him adding more water into the cup, causing it to overflow.
Well, if the ice melts (it contains freshwater) it will mix up with salt water which is denser than freshwater and there will be a slight rise ~2,6%. Indeed there would be no rise at all if all the water in the oceans is freshwater. Arctic ice is floating ice but Antarctic ice is on solid grounds, if that melts there will be a waterlevel rise. And warmer water means also there will be a rise coz warm water needs more volume. Hope it helps
Im sure its already been said in this thread, but the ice that is in the water is not the problem. Its the ice above the water, and especially on land that is the issue with global warming. Most notably Greenland. If it melts, it is on land and ABOVE the water, it would potentially add 20 ft (about 7 meters) to the existing level of the ocean.
It has already been shown that the height of the water has changed over the last 100 years about 6 inches.
I always wondered what happened to Mr Wizard... but then I realized he disappeared around the time Voldemort first rose to power. Some dark wizards probably took great offense to him calling himself a wizard and yet teaching the muggle sciences.
Great video! I loved Mr. Wizard. Of course he's right the melting of the North pole wouldn't cause the shorelines to flood. Now as for the South pole, things would be different becasue the water frozen there is locked in the form of land based glaciers. Those glaciers sitting on top of land are not part of the Earth's oceans. When it melts, theoretically, it will melt and run off into the surrounding oceans; once it does and never having been "in"the ocean as ice, it will cause a rise.
Global warming exists, but it is not do to our effect on the environment. The world goes through phases where it heats and cools. We are in what is called an interglacial. The world is going to heat a few degrees and then when conditions are right, the climate will shift dramatically and we will go into another ice age. This is another scientific fact that was proven. Everyone is worried about their carbon footprint....give me a brake.
@windchaser6 I would, but I need them for my own car! Sorry, couldn't pass up the joke. Man, this was the best show ever! I remember watching it on Calgary 7 before Global took over.
No one is saying that floating ice is the problem. The problem is ice such as that in Greenland and Antarctica is not floating. It's on solid bedrock. So, when that melts, it flows into the sea and indeed floods our coastal cities.
@simpson1045 Did you watch it, or do you really think the title fits? If it is the latter, then don't reply that that is the case, because you will reveal your ignorance.
@rusrockt10 LOL! I agree! The MAIN thing learned is that the ice on the top of mountains is NOT floating in the ocean YET...so no matter what, whether it's water OR ice, whatever is on LAND WILL change the level of the ocean AFTER it makes its way there! "Intelligence is awareness of ignorance. Stupidity is ignorance of ignorance." And stupidity has no cure.
Look people, this is not a test of global warming or if melting ice caps will have an effect on sea level. The ice here has a bunch of air in it. Thats shown by the cloudiness of the ice cubes. WATER DOES INCREASE IN VOLUME AS IT WARMS FROM A FROZEN STATE. So, the volume originally taken up by the ice cubes is partly by air. As the ice melts, the air escapes, as well as the volume that air occupied. If pure, frozen H2O was in there the glass would overflow. BTW Mr Wizard rocks. Sorry if Im wrong
This doesnt apply to the melting ice caps. #1. because ice caps are fresh water and they are melting into saline water which expands volume and #2. because, as someone else pointed out, the volume above water is floating...not stacked as in the glass...it makes a difference.
@paleologue In response to number 1, it doesn't matter what kind of object is floating in water. The water displaced is determined by an object's mass. If an object has a lower density than water then the object will float. The portion of the object floating above water is the level that gravity wins over the density battle, but the full volume of the object is already accounted for by the amount of water displaced. As for number 2, The ice caps are floating on liquid water.
back in the early 1990s. They use to show reruns of Mr. Wizard in the 90s when I was growing up and I never could get into him. I watched him for 5 minutes and then I'd turn. But Beakman's World and Bill Nye The Science Guy, I could not move from my seat when they were on TV.
I'm sorry but Beakman's World and Bill Nye The Science Guy were the real Science shows for kids. They had more energy, very vibrant. Beakman didnt really have alot kids on his show, but Bill Nye had tons of children on his show and each child had a special pizazz with their personalities. I never could get into Mr Wizard, he was just to bland for me. But what do you expect the man looks 50 some odd yrs old compared to Beakman and Bill Nye who were in their late 30s when they had their shows-
You're missing the fact that not all the ice in the world sits on the water. Fill a bowl with a flat brim. Set the ice on the brim. Wait a while. Is there more water in the bowl now? If so, then you can see how melting land ice can run into the ocean and cause coastal flooding.
What about how 1 day of a volcano eruption causes as much man made CO2 as a hundred years and they blame us for it. We got to pass laws prohibitting volcanos from doing that!
Nickelodeon used to be so great! It was educational (Mr Wizard) and still provided mindless stupidity (Weinerville). It was fun (remember all those GAME SHOWS) and scary (Are You Afraid Of The Dark). Now it's just lame programming that shoves stupidity and bad values into kids (don't agree? iCarly)
And this coming from the legendary Don "Mr. Wizard" Herbert. Guess all these enviromental Nazis are sweating over nothing. Or would they rather face a nuclear winter?
I have a question....he told the girl don't touch the counter, which made me think...so what happens when there's earthquakes?.....would that end up in another deluge?
@endlesswaltzhaha I'm pretty sure it's just that for this experiment to be AMAZING!!!!!(tm) you have to fill the glass up so high that it's actually hanging above the rim of the glass (ie, adding even a milliliter of water will make it overflow)
Ok global warming, al gore following sheep. Lets think of this, the big global warming argument is that the WATER temp is rising. How the hell will the ice thats on the bedrock of Antarctica melt if the AIR temp stays below 0 degrees celsius. So even if the water temp rises, who cares it wont cause flooding.
But go ahead, keep being loyal dumbed down sheeple. Pay your "carbon tax" thinking your saving the world. When in reality your really paying for Al Gores private jet fuel bill
This was such a great show, but whoever found this clip is not applying this right. The icecaps melting cause the ocean level to rise because the ice isn't floating in the water.
Although this shows so many cool things, one that ice floats which is a miracle by itself, but also it shows how the bouyant force works. omg I love Mr. Wizard.
Too bad it isn't global warming melting the ice in Greenland. Greenland happens to have an active volcano under it that heats up and melts the ice occasionally. I've seen maps of Greenland dated 1895 and it shows more exposed landmass then there is today. Was it global warming that melted the ice in 1895? I don't think so.
This is misapplied science, it does not prove that melting ice caps wouldn't make the ocean rise, because the ice was not IN the water, it's melting and going INTO the water, so water is being ADDED to the ocean.
@letzCdis It does apply for the ice over the arctic ocean. That's exactly what the ice in the arctic ocean is - just ice floating in water, and displacement deals in mass and weight.. the ice doesn't even need to be below the water line for its displacement to be taken into consideration by the physics of the scenario.
Antarctica on the other hand is a completely different beast, but I doubt antarctica melting to nothing is very likely, but if it did, it certainly would affect shorelines.
You're mistaken about one thing. The point of this experiment that ice that is buoyant in water, as it melts, will not increase water level, because the displacement of the ice accounts for its mass.
But antarctica's ice is NOT buoyant in the ocean. The difference would be putting a cup with holes above a cup that's full to the brim, and then putting ice into the top cup. The ice will melt down and overflow the cup below. That's CAUSED by the landmass under the ice.
There's ice shelves that extend off of the land mass in Antarctica, so those melting will make no difference to ocean levels at all because they are already in the water, and as I already pointed out, the ice over the actual landmass is sufficiently shielded from any increase in the water temperature by the landmass itself to prevent significant melting. There is no such thing as global warming anyway so why are you worrying about it at all?
Also, you aren't taking into the consideration the phenomena that occurs when ice forms on top of a land mass. There's a name for it that I forget at the moment, but the weight of the ice presses down on the land mass which deforms the crust under it. If the ice melts off and runs into the ocean, the land mass will rise up so it is a negative sum scenario. It happens every ice age and is a natural occurrence, not a man made one.
@gamewizard That, I really have no idea about, however, I can't imagine that would be an efficient system, You'd still have a lot of water being added to the closed system of the oceans that isn't accounted for in that "sinking crust" phenomenon. I still think if Antarctica melted, it would be a LOT different then the Arctic melting, because of the fundamentals of the experiment shown in this video.
I don't actually think that's what'll do us in though. I'm more worried about city sized meteors
But at the same time it is being added to the ocean, it is contracting. Water has less volume than ice and steam has less volume than water. It is one of the unique properties of water that it shrinks when it is heated when everything else expands. Ice actually takes up more room than the liquid water that it is made of.
@letzCdis All of the polar ice in the Northern Hemisphere is floating in water. Most of the continent of Antartica is below sea level as well, for example the West Antartic Ice Sheat is grounded on bedrock 1.5 miles (nearly 2 kilometers) below sea level. The experiment remains valid.
@letzCdis So you think the ice caps are sitting on land? That's not true at all. There is liquid water under the ice caps. Knowing that, the caps do displace water in the ocean since the ice caps are floating on water. What little snow and ice there is on land masses would have little effect on the water levels of the oceans.
@letzCdis You see large amounts of ice crumbling into the sea. What you don't notice is the ice sheet it fell from getting a little lighter and rising out of the ocean a little.
@letzCdis Volume volume volume. ice is water and water is ice. matter cannot be created or destroyed. matter can be transformed into different stages. Gas, liquid, or solid.
@letzCdis the priciples of science are very simple and not as complex as you would like to beleive,as a student of science,i am subject to the beleif that the simplest explenation is the right one,might i also add that evaporation must be taken into consideration,and also the every few centries or so the earth heats up and or cools,it is all part of a process that is eon's old.remember heat around moisture causes evaporation,if it were not so the earth would be a flooded mess i.e. rain.
This is so messed up, it's not only sloppy science, but it's misapplied science.
Water expands when it freezes, anyone who has made ice cubes, or had a tray of ice cubes melt on them knows that you fill the cells a little more than half to get full size ice cubes. If the glass with ice had been exactly full to the top, not over, then the level would have gone DOWN when the ice melted. But the ice was up above the top of the glass, so it came out even. Sloppy experiment.
When I first heard that melting ice caps will cause sea level to rise I immediately though back to this episode and said 'that doesn't make sense.' It wasn't until I learned years later that the majority of the ice rests on land and not in the sea that I realized my error. And that doesn't even account for thermal expansion.
hey OP, repeat the experiment but rest ice on the edges of your container (angled edges work so water is directed into container) and check the results. all of the earth's ice isn't already floating in water.
A better experiment for you would be to put a cup upside down in a large bowl. Fill the bowl to the top with water and ice. Put large chunks of ice on the cup out of the water. Add heat to the water and place the whole experiment in a freezer around 0 degrees F. This would best simulate the world and global warming. It has been proven that the world warms up We have record hot days still dating back over 100 years ago. We WILL have another ice age and balance of our temperature.
@rickcrisbalthis an ice age is likely to occur only if heat can efficiently escape the earth's atmosphere. carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, trioxide, and steam can help to trap some heat on earth. as those gases become more common in the atmosphere more heat is trapped and the next ice age (or temp. reset) is put off by a couple of thousand years.
Shows like this do not exist anymore because they soon realized that this, and shows like it would have the reverse effect they anticipated in the dumbing down of American youth. So there you have it; Barny, iCarly Dora, ect ect ect. But as for me and my house we will take advantage of unforseen aspects of technology and travel back in time to when they had real programs with real substance. Thanks Youtube, thanks posters!!!
This principle is true with regards to the northern polar ice cap, which is sea ice. It is not true with regards to the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets, which are continental glaciers and will add to the volume of the oceans. This is why amateurs should not dabble in science. (Not Mr. Wizard, the idiot who posted this on youtube with that BS title)
@BigJ719 Exactly. He doesn't mention anywhere that this experiment is even related to polar ice melt. The title of this video takes it completely out of context.
Warming oceans have no effect on continental ice because that ice is not in direct contact with the warm water. Wait until winter when it's below freezing outside, fill a wading pool half with dirt and half with hot water. Put one ice cube directly in the hot water and the other on the highest point of dirt away from the water. The hot water will melt the ice cube in it but the one up on the dirt will stay frozen.
@hancho17 uhm. the northpole is floating... we only have to be aware of the southpole :)
stevanoviets 1 day ago
the ocean levels would rise because the ice caps are on top of land too. antartica, greenland are land masses that have ice. when those melt it will flow to the ocean causing global sea levels to rise.
jojococoa 6 days ago
It's hard to believe people are so dumb that they think this disproves rising ocean levels. Talk about a fundamental misunderstanding of geography (the ice on the ice caps? It's sitting on top of bedrock, people, it's not floating in the damned ocean.)
I just wanted to see a video about a childhood mentor and this is the first result that comes up? God in heaven.
walkingego 1 week ago
I don't have space to list all the ways this stupid global warming fiasco has been debunked, over and over again. What's the next calamity for you liberals to bleat about?
Oh yes, the Mayan calendar.
It never ends...
AshtonPhoto 2 weeks ago
The problem with this video is, if anyone has ever let a glass of ice water melt to that degree, they would remember that the condensation on the outside of the cup or glass would have made the saucer wet and that proves that he didn't let the experiment go untouched, Though the result may have been it was tampered with. Not griping, Just an observation.
cristynessable 3 weeks ago
@cristynessable Really? That's your observation? Not that a proven scientific principle is demonstrated and that knowledge is being passed to the next generation... but that condensation, a complication to the experiment which may have been misinterpreted by a young audience who have no experience in this area, may have been removed for demonstation purposes? Really? THAT'S your observation? You are pathetic.
TomKaren1994 3 weeks ago 2
@cristynessable You should know, condensation like that does not occur in dry climates. Come down to New Mexico and let a glass of ice melt and note the complete dryness of the table on which is sits.
srpattes 1 week ago
I remember watching this show one time and it was about pitch, using a straw to demonstrate it.
ZiotheZero 1 month ago
Global Warming got fisted way back in the disco era. Sweet.
TheRealBoyardee 1 month ago
ahhahaha you guys are messing fact the antarctic maybe arctic also, has islands THAT CUP DOES NOT...
osearth 1 month ago
global warming is a GOV LIE, for global power grab
adam3176 2 months ago
this is real science. before the gov came in and started to teach LIES
adam3176 2 months ago
@nexusutube...If you think about it, it really doesn't matter what the land masses are floating on and by removing the weight of the ice over these land masses they would then float higher. In the case of Antarctica, Iceland and Greenland they all float over the mantel. This whole idea that human intervention has caused global warming and hence the reduction of our polar ice is a scare tactic to enlist the finacial aid of those that are scared. I can hear the ching ca ching can't you?
kycatsbboy 2 months ago
20+ years later and I'm still learning from this man.
Vebinz 2 months ago
Eat that Al Gore!
mcradloff 2 months ago
I love the back and forth on this with Polar Ice caps. Many are right, it's not all floating, only 90% of it is floating. But there are a lot of elements to consider. For instance, some of the land locked ice, when melted, will be trapped inland still. Meaning that it may never be added to ocean with exception of rainfall. I can't say one way or the other. But the OP is 90% right. Though, it was not Mr Wizards intention to debunk polar ice melting.
BaresarkSlayne 2 months ago
I almost accepted it, except that it's only half-correct, that melting ice caps won't flood coastlines by displacement. It may be true for the Arctic ice, however, Antarctic ice, much like the many glaciers around the world, actually sits on land. Since most of the global ice is on land, and not displacing the oceans, it'll rise.
Then again, we do loose some our atmosphere out into space as the Earth heats up, like the steam escaping from around the lid of a pan of boiling water.
FascistFrenchman 3 months ago
That would only debunk it if the ice caps were floating in water. They're not.
thekkl 4 months ago in playlist Mr wizards world 4
Still doesn't mean the fact that the ice caps are melting is okay.
MachineElf2113 4 months ago
@MachineElf2113 Yes it does stupid
StuckInADitch 4 months ago
Great episode, I remember this from when I was a kid. Uploader completely misses the point but oh well
akaMouse 4 months ago
He's not "debunking" anything about caps. If the ice protrudes high out of the water then it'll overflow when it melts.
williamblakeism 4 months ago 2
two points
1) he isn't addressing global warming directly, he is commenting on the behavior of water as it changes phases
2) if he was addressing it, he would note that most of the ice is outside of the ocean like on top of greenland or antarctica. its not just floating around in the ocean like the icecubes in the demonstration.
to demonstrate what would happen, he would have filled the large glass with liquid water, melted the ice in the small one, and added the water to the large glass.
hancho17 4 months ago 30
@hancho17 Of course, you are also not taking into account what would happen to the land masses after the release of the billions of tonnes of pressure no longer upon them. They would naturally rise.
ascolti 2 months ago
@hancho17
Did anyone ever tell you that the land masses like Antarctica and Greenland are also a floating mass. When the weight of the ice in those areas is removed THEY also float higher countering the additional water in our oceans as well as countering your hypotheses.
kycatsbboy 2 months ago
@kycatsbboy Land masses aren't floating on the oceans. Sea levels do rise and lower depending on the ice caps. Look up Doggarland it was a landmass 8000 years ago that connected England to France and has archeological remains.
nexusutube 2 months ago 5
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@hancho17 ouch....hancho got burned. lol
makisunn 2 months ago
@hancho17
1) If Mr. Wizard was directly addressing global warming or not the science is sound, so it is relative to the topic. That's a political answer not a scientific one.
2) Has ice on mountain tops always been the point and not the ice in the ocean? Has that been the stance of the Global warming community the whole time? I only remember floating icebergs being used as an example.
I also heard the earths been warming for a long time now, even before Industrial revolution? Is that true?
3rdEYEbeHolder 1 month ago
That is a rockin' sweater. I should learn to knit so I can make them for my kids when I have them watch these shows.
jenntropy 5 months ago
Ice that melts on land is what is contributing to the rise in sea level not ice in the oceans. Title is wrong.
1212boochie 5 months ago 4
@1212boochie But the snow came from somewhere.....maybe from the same source that its filling up.
JeffroTV 5 months ago
I would fuck her so hard.
masterhalco 5 months ago
I remember watching kids science shows when I was 5 years old in 80s saying the world will be flooded by the year 2000
Denver1928 5 months ago
What about the actual rising of the ocean? Or are you saying that isn't happening?
raist1er 5 months ago
@raist1er It's actually decreasing. Not rising.
godbluffvdgg 5 months ago
im 420ed and this is 4mins 20 seconds wooot wooot
tsharpmac420 5 months ago
"It didn't melt"
lol
ZiplineJon 6 months ago 2
Whoever posted this is not a smart person.
tgentry78 6 months ago
@tgentry78 Well you're just effin' stupid.
simpson1045 6 months ago
DUH. It's not debunked because the ice was already in the water. If the ice was outside of water (AKA: On land) then it would make the water level rise.
ambrosialea 6 months ago 5
this was my fav ep.. couldnt ever get my ice do it.
jayb674 6 months ago
Nothing debunked here. This is simply a demonstration of a unique property of water.
0Soule0 6 months ago
Mr.Wizard was an America, all these years I thought he was canadian because of his accent. The longer you live the less you know.
unknownvariable1 6 months ago
OMG, I MISS THIS SHOW!!!!!!
Steventhe2nd 6 months ago 3
if the icecaps were floating that'd be one thing... but the icecaps and glaciers are often on land NOT on water. they are correct if all polar ice was floating. if floods didn't come from icemelt explain how when the north American ice sheet melted it left behind all the lakes in the northern part of the US? many are.... Meltwater from the ice sheet! and if the icecaps begin to melt that are on Greenland and northern Alaska and Canada, levels will likely rise because not all that ice FLOATS.
mrinvader 6 months ago
they should have stacked the glass so it didn't float if climate related flooding was in question(a challenge, original poster and ppl who use this to debunk climate change?). they were merely demonstrating mass, density, and volume. h2o is one of few substances that doesn't contract when going liquid to solid, it expands! Michigan Dept. of Transportation will groan about that fact :)
mrinvader 6 months ago
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mrinvader 6 months ago
I thought that was just a really really awkward little boy that entire fucking video... Or he might have had some type of thing that made him slow. I don't know. But what the fuck?! That was a girl?... Damn, I feel like an ass. Sorry, little girl!
tubbydonutguy 6 months ago
Mr. Wizard should have known better than to you the word "theory" when he really meant "hypothesis." It's shit like that that makes people say stupid things like "evolution is just a theory."
honeyboy1 6 months ago
Captain Jean-Luc Picard in his early years... When he had hair.
SVPrelude 6 months ago
The ice cap theory is sound. Iceburgs: Most of it is actually underwater. You can talk about the ice shelves which are on land but it doesn't really matter. There's also the fact that we typically defeat nature. Ocean rising? Build canals and give water to dry cities (Las Vegas). The rate of melting and then evaporation would spread it across lands. There's a lot more to this but I am limited in the characters to respond. The theory IS sound.
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iamtherizzle 7 months ago
@topazeyes Your logic is unsound. The ice above the glass is still ice that is floating IN the glass. A majority of the ice in the Arctic and Antarctic is on the continents, NOT a piece of a chunk of ice already floating in the water. As the ice on the continents melt, it drains into the sea, thus ADDING volume, increasing the sea level.
iamtherizzle 7 months ago
@iamtherizzle
Arctic is is floating ice but you are right with Antarctic. I guess you meant Greenland which is close by and its ice is on solid grounds. We shouldn´t forget the glaciers all around the globe as well - most of them are melting too.
celshad 7 months ago
@celshad Oops! I DID mean Greenland!
iamtherizzle 7 months ago
@iamtherizzle
no harm done ;) but you were right ^^
celshad 7 months ago
Ask a woolly Mammoth about man made global warming. it shows how much greenhouse gas these people are full of. Hit that with your hockey stick Ale I invented air Gore !!!!!!!
45Machine 7 months ago
The only REAL point is that that no matter what we do WE don't have control over this process and we should understand that the Earth will do what the Earth will do. In the long run we should be more concerned with overpopulation which is what those that "HAVE" are angry because the "HAVE NOTS" will take the dwindleing recourses and make life difficult. The end will come and those with their private stocks and Armies will be the only survivers not some ice cap melting.
kpreston69 7 months ago
Well the earth is flat, so the water would spill over anyways.
PianoChick36 8 months ago 2
How did the glass remain that dry wouldn't it still be moist due to condensation?
xChaoticNeutralx 8 months ago
Apparently the person who posted this doesn't understand what a glacier is or that there are landmasses under them, like Antarctica and Greenland. A proper comparison to global warming would be if there was also a funnel filled with ice that had been suspended over the glass. Since there wasn't, this video cannot be used to address the results of the ice sheets melting at all.
CapnBob 8 months ago 5
@CapnBob HAHA you believe in global warming.... Can anyone on earth still be that stupid? I guess so.
godbluffvdgg 5 months ago
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@godbluffvdgg Your comment is hilarious! ...Though probably not for the reason you intended.
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Discgolfer1234 4 months ago
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@godbluffvdgg I will never be amazed at the abject stupidity of some people such as you. You are proof-positive that there is Devolution.
Discgolfer1234 4 months ago
You could have seen any excess water on the table. That plate was completely unnecessary. wtf is she using it like a waitress to bring the glasses over to the faucet and back? Either don't use a plate or just leave the plate on the counter. You got two glasses and two hands. Carry them to the faucet, then carry them back. What the christ is this happy horse sh*t?
Irapemychildren 8 months ago
HAHA! Take that liberals!
SKONJIE 8 months ago
IMO this is not a good comparison of out ice caps as much of that ics is ove land not floating in water so the volume is not accounted for
keensweep 8 months ago
First of all I'm gonna say I'm no activist.That said, this is flawed science. I'm going to concede that a massive amount of the earths ice is below sea level. And ice cubes r less dense than water.But we are not talking about ice cubes formed in the freezer under 0 pressure.The ice of Antarctica is under immense pressure from its own weight that it actually presses down on the earths crust (isostatic depression).Still we're talkin 4/5 ft per 1000 years @ current rate.I move way faster than that.
snakerobber 9 months ago
The best thing about Mr. Wizard is he doesn't talk down to kids. "I would like to advance another theory." He talks to them like adults.
That is why our generation has kids who are engineers and today's kids listen to Ke$ha.
razordu30 9 months ago 29
@razordu30 Thanks,. buying some more Kesha later today
1loveshop 7 months ago
@razordu30 Your generator's dispensers are being sapped though.
Malkmusianful 4 months ago
@razordu30 Yeah but who raised this stupid generation? It all depends on the parenting. What you teach them and etc. I'm 16 myself but I listen to Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and etc and I love science and etc. I'm not saying that my father forced me to listen to Hendrix or love science, he was just a guy who liked science and old music so we shared time together and I'm sort of a product of him, lol.
Undergroundhiphoop 4 months ago
It's proper science. Mr. Wizard said nothing about the ice caps. Just a fun demonstration inappropriately attributed (misapplied) by whomever posted the vid.
lnventlve 9 months ago 3
This by no means has anything to do with shores not flooding. Shores most definitely will flood with ice cap melting. I don't think that that is the point he is trying to make.
danamaeval 9 months ago
@danamaeval
yep. This is just misused as a claim that there is no sea-level rise at all. But simple physics doesn´t mean that nature behaves the same way.
celshad 7 months ago
I didn't realize that was a girl until about 2 minutes in. Ahh the 80's.
Moistcabbage1 9 months ago
Hopefully they'll flood New Jersey.
SeminarioMAE 9 months ago
First off: He isn't disproving global warming, he is disproving that if ice BERGS, melt it will not rise the sea level severely.
Second: There seems to be a fundamental confusion about the difference between ice BERGS and ice CAPS. Ice BERGS are the ice cubes, otherwise known as the mass accounted for. Ice CAPS are ice that is ON LAND. If ice CAPS melted, it would be the equivalent of him adding more water into the cup, causing it to overflow.
GoodWithComputer 9 months ago 3
@GoodWithComputer
Well, if the ice melts (it contains freshwater) it will mix up with salt water which is denser than freshwater and there will be a slight rise ~2,6%. Indeed there would be no rise at all if all the water in the oceans is freshwater. Arctic ice is floating ice but Antarctic ice is on solid grounds, if that melts there will be a waterlevel rise. And warmer water means also there will be a rise coz warm water needs more volume. Hope it helps
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wutaii1 10 months ago
Im sure its already been said in this thread, but the ice that is in the water is not the problem. Its the ice above the water, and especially on land that is the issue with global warming. Most notably Greenland. If it melts, it is on land and ABOVE the water, it would potentially add 20 ft (about 7 meters) to the existing level of the ocean.
It has already been shown that the height of the water has changed over the last 100 years about 6 inches.
Geom8try 10 months ago
I always wondered what happened to Mr Wizard... but then I realized he disappeared around the time Voldemort first rose to power. Some dark wizards probably took great offense to him calling himself a wizard and yet teaching the muggle sciences.
MarkoOhNo 10 months ago
That's crazy because I remember watching this episode when i was a little kid !!
Nofancyscreenname 10 months ago
(~o¿o~)
gareddclay 11 months ago
Great video! I loved Mr. Wizard. Of course he's right the melting of the North pole wouldn't cause the shorelines to flood. Now as for the South pole, things would be different becasue the water frozen there is locked in the form of land based glaciers. Those glaciers sitting on top of land are not part of the Earth's oceans. When it melts, theoretically, it will melt and run off into the surrounding oceans; once it does and never having been "in"the ocean as ice, it will cause a rise.
kzolly 11 months ago 4
Global warming exists, but it is not do to our effect on the environment. The world goes through phases where it heats and cools. We are in what is called an interglacial. The world is going to heat a few degrees and then when conditions are right, the climate will shift dramatically and we will go into another ice age. This is another scientific fact that was proven. Everyone is worried about their carbon footprint....give me a brake.
windchaser6 11 months ago
@windchaser6 I would, but I need them for my own car! Sorry, couldn't pass up the joke. Man, this was the best show ever! I remember watching it on Calgary 7 before Global took over.
DarkHate556 11 months ago
No one is saying that floating ice is the problem. The problem is ice such as that in Greenland and Antarctica is not floating. It's on solid bedrock. So, when that melts, it flows into the sea and indeed floods our coastal cities.
Fippypopulosa 11 months ago
I can see by the comments left here "they" STILL dont like him because he told us the truth!! he also had some invention that "they" stiffed as well.
analyzingfunny 11 months ago
damn wizard....you learned me!!!!
alprazolammy 11 months ago
Agghhh! were all gonna die!
TheTempestSpark 11 months ago
is that justin bieber?
kork33 11 months ago
@kork33 For the love of friggen god. Justin Bieber wasn't even a sperm when this show was out.
NateSean 11 months ago
Wow, the person the titled this video is a moron.
rusrockt10 11 months ago 37
@rusrockt10 Wow.... You're a real dumbass aren't you? Did you not watch the damn video?
simpson1045 6 months ago
@simpson1045 Did you watch it, or do you really think the title fits? If it is the latter, then don't reply that that is the case, because you will reveal your ignorance.
rusrockt10 6 months ago
@rusrockt10
Only if the ice is in the water. On Greenland and Antarctica, the ice is 2-3 miles thick, and most of that ice is well ABOVE sea level.
valkhorn 5 months ago 2
@valkhorn I don't think you intended to reply to me, did you?
rusrockt10 5 months ago
@rusrockt10 LOL! I agree! The MAIN thing learned is that the ice on the top of mountains is NOT floating in the ocean YET...so no matter what, whether it's water OR ice, whatever is on LAND WILL change the level of the ocean AFTER it makes its way there! "Intelligence is awareness of ignorance. Stupidity is ignorance of ignorance." And stupidity has no cure.
Discgolfer1234 4 months ago 10
Look people, this is not a test of global warming or if melting ice caps will have an effect on sea level. The ice here has a bunch of air in it. Thats shown by the cloudiness of the ice cubes. WATER DOES INCREASE IN VOLUME AS IT WARMS FROM A FROZEN STATE. So, the volume originally taken up by the ice cubes is partly by air. As the ice melts, the air escapes, as well as the volume that air occupied. If pure, frozen H2O was in there the glass would overflow. BTW Mr Wizard rocks. Sorry if Im wrong
ChickenLiver99 11 months ago
Fuck, I don't get it.
LambadLambadLambda 1 year ago
PWNED
booooooolpusterd 1 year ago
Is that a girl or a boy?
eBookAddict 1 year ago
This doesnt apply to the melting ice caps. #1. because ice caps are fresh water and they are melting into saline water which expands volume and #2. because, as someone else pointed out, the volume above water is floating...not stacked as in the glass...it makes a difference.
paleologue 1 year ago
@paleologue In response to number 1, it doesn't matter what kind of object is floating in water. The water displaced is determined by an object's mass. If an object has a lower density than water then the object will float. The portion of the object floating above water is the level that gravity wins over the density battle, but the full volume of the object is already accounted for by the amount of water displaced. As for number 2, The ice caps are floating on liquid water.
Ilovetheplatypus 1 year ago
u better not get a fucking drop on that table
xxxexyz87 1 year ago
back in the early 1990s. They use to show reruns of Mr. Wizard in the 90s when I was growing up and I never could get into him. I watched him for 5 minutes and then I'd turn. But Beakman's World and Bill Nye The Science Guy, I could not move from my seat when they were on TV.
MrMbell2 1 year ago
I'm sorry but Beakman's World and Bill Nye The Science Guy were the real Science shows for kids. They had more energy, very vibrant. Beakman didnt really have alot kids on his show, but Bill Nye had tons of children on his show and each child had a special pizazz with their personalities. I never could get into Mr Wizard, he was just to bland for me. But what do you expect the man looks 50 some odd yrs old compared to Beakman and Bill Nye who were in their late 30s when they had their shows-
MrMbell2 1 year ago
What happened to kids shows like this. I say we get another Mr. Wizard on TV like this, think it'll be popular?
thatguyontheright1 1 year ago
Im going to go do this. Ill let you know if that turd just wiped that plate off when the camera cut off
CrazyRicanRocker 1 year ago
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@CrazyRicanRocker You did not call Mr. Wizard a turd! Don Herbert was a genius!
bosskdawg 1 year ago
You're missing the fact that not all the ice in the world sits on the water. Fill a bowl with a flat brim. Set the ice on the brim. Wait a while. Is there more water in the bowl now? If so, then you can see how melting land ice can run into the ocean and cause coastal flooding.
jancar2012 1 year ago
Damn, that chick is hot. Those glasses are turning me on!
mr2guysingh 1 year ago
@mr2guysingh are you serious lol
KiillWiithMe 1 year ago
@KiillWiithMe Yes I am.
mr2guysingh 1 year ago
@mr2guysingh hahaha :P
KiillWiithMe 1 year ago
The ice caps are above the water NOT IN IT. Mr. Wizard would be ashamed of you.
360Politics 1 year ago 2
What about how 1 day of a volcano eruption causes as much man made CO2 as a hundred years and they blame us for it. We got to pass laws prohibitting volcanos from doing that!
LifterOn 1 year ago
@LifterOn
'1 day of a volcano eruption causes as much man made CO2' I think not!
watch?v=49toPg24l_M
blackadderthe4 1 year ago
I bet that nerdy girl grew up to be a major hottie.
LambadLambadLambda 1 year ago 38
@LambadLambadLambda I think thats Patricia Arquette?
treyme 1 year ago
@LambadLambadLambda She's my hot girlfriend. So yes.
StormRisingOriginal 9 months ago
Sad thing is, this was "kids" programming back then, and today, they wouldn't even try this on adults.
LambadLambadLambda 1 year ago
The bounce back of the land masses doesn't happen nearly as fast as the melting of the ice. Ice is deformable in ways that rock is not.
TheDamnedmisfit 1 year ago
What about the ice on land draining into the ocean? Would that not raise the level of the water?
Hadra568 1 year ago
and kids today watch hannah montana and keeping up with the kardashians......
mbenzsl2000 1 year ago
Nickelodeon used to be so great! It was educational (Mr Wizard) and still provided mindless stupidity (Weinerville). It was fun (remember all those GAME SHOWS) and scary (Are You Afraid Of The Dark). Now it's just lame programming that shoves stupidity and bad values into kids (don't agree? iCarly)
brad349miller 1 year ago
And this coming from the legendary Don "Mr. Wizard" Herbert. Guess all these enviromental Nazis are sweating over nothing. Or would they rather face a nuclear winter?
NinjaGhostScorpion 1 year ago
Damn I miss watching Mr. Wizard.... brings back some great memories... this was when Nickelodeon was in its prime, now its just nothing but junk
Dwelve27 1 year ago
I have a question....he told the girl don't touch the counter, which made me think...so what happens when there's earthquakes?.....would that end up in another deluge?
endlesswaltzhaha 1 year ago
@endlesswaltzhaha I'm pretty sure it's just that for this experiment to be AMAZING!!!!!(tm) you have to fill the glass up so high that it's actually hanging above the rim of the glass (ie, adding even a milliliter of water will make it overflow)
Altorin 1 year ago
Ok global warming, al gore following sheep. Lets think of this, the big global warming argument is that the WATER temp is rising. How the hell will the ice thats on the bedrock of Antarctica melt if the AIR temp stays below 0 degrees celsius. So even if the water temp rises, who cares it wont cause flooding.
But go ahead, keep being loyal dumbed down sheeple. Pay your "carbon tax" thinking your saving the world. When in reality your really paying for Al Gores private jet fuel bill
speedinquest 1 year ago
This was such a great show, but whoever found this clip is not applying this right. The icecaps melting cause the ocean level to rise because the ice isn't floating in the water.
Although this shows so many cool things, one that ice floats which is a miracle by itself, but also it shows how the bouyant force works. omg I love Mr. Wizard.
madblueplanet 1 year ago
@madblueplanet
The northern arctic ice IS floating in the water. There is no land mass there.
gamewizard 1 year ago
@gamewizard I think when one talks of global warning causing rising water levels, they means from bodies of ice that aren't floating, like Greenland.
madblueplanet 1 year ago
@madblueplanet
Too bad it isn't global warming melting the ice in Greenland. Greenland happens to have an active volcano under it that heats up and melts the ice occasionally. I've seen maps of Greenland dated 1895 and it shows more exposed landmass then there is today. Was it global warming that melted the ice in 1895? I don't think so.
gamewizard 1 year ago
This is misapplied science, it does not prove that melting ice caps wouldn't make the ocean rise, because the ice was not IN the water, it's melting and going INTO the water, so water is being ADDED to the ocean.
letzCdis 1 year ago 33
@letzCdis It does apply for the ice over the arctic ocean. That's exactly what the ice in the arctic ocean is - just ice floating in water, and displacement deals in mass and weight.. the ice doesn't even need to be below the water line for its displacement to be taken into consideration by the physics of the scenario.
Antarctica on the other hand is a completely different beast, but I doubt antarctica melting to nothing is very likely, but if it did, it certainly would affect shorelines.
Altorin 1 year ago
@Altorin
Antarctica has a land mass under it, the largest land mass on Earth in fact, so very little will happen if all the ice there melts.
gamewizard 1 year ago
@gamewizard
You're mistaken about one thing. The point of this experiment that ice that is buoyant in water, as it melts, will not increase water level, because the displacement of the ice accounts for its mass.
But antarctica's ice is NOT buoyant in the ocean. The difference would be putting a cup with holes above a cup that's full to the brim, and then putting ice into the top cup. The ice will melt down and overflow the cup below. That's CAUSED by the landmass under the ice.
Altorin 1 year ago
@Altorin
There's ice shelves that extend off of the land mass in Antarctica, so those melting will make no difference to ocean levels at all because they are already in the water, and as I already pointed out, the ice over the actual landmass is sufficiently shielded from any increase in the water temperature by the landmass itself to prevent significant melting. There is no such thing as global warming anyway so why are you worrying about it at all?
gamewizard 1 year ago
@Altorin
Global warming is a bogey man created to frighten children and gullible adults. Which are you?
gamewizard 1 year ago
@Altorin
Also, you aren't taking into the consideration the phenomena that occurs when ice forms on top of a land mass. There's a name for it that I forget at the moment, but the weight of the ice presses down on the land mass which deforms the crust under it. If the ice melts off and runs into the ocean, the land mass will rise up so it is a negative sum scenario. It happens every ice age and is a natural occurrence, not a man made one.
gamewizard 1 year ago
@gamewizard That, I really have no idea about, however, I can't imagine that would be an efficient system, You'd still have a lot of water being added to the closed system of the oceans that isn't accounted for in that "sinking crust" phenomenon. I still think if Antarctica melted, it would be a LOT different then the Arctic melting, because of the fundamentals of the experiment shown in this video.
I don't actually think that's what'll do us in though. I'm more worried about city sized meteors
Altorin 1 year ago
@letzCdis
But at the same time it is being added to the ocean, it is contracting. Water has less volume than ice and steam has less volume than water. It is one of the unique properties of water that it shrinks when it is heated when everything else expands. Ice actually takes up more room than the liquid water that it is made of.
gamewizard 1 year ago
@letzCdis All of the polar ice in the Northern Hemisphere is floating in water. Most of the continent of Antartica is below sea level as well, for example the West Antartic Ice Sheat is grounded on bedrock 1.5 miles (nearly 2 kilometers) below sea level. The experiment remains valid.
MrTaterRaider 1 year ago
@letzCdis
dude.. the ice cubes in the glass are sticking out of the top of the glass
at least you found 9 other idiots to thumbs up your post
CorazEQ 1 year ago
@letzCdis So you think the ice caps are sitting on land? That's not true at all. There is liquid water under the ice caps. Knowing that, the caps do displace water in the ocean since the ice caps are floating on water. What little snow and ice there is on land masses would have little effect on the water levels of the oceans.
Ilovetheplatypus 1 year ago
@letzCdis You see large amounts of ice crumbling into the sea. What you don't notice is the ice sheet it fell from getting a little lighter and rising out of the ocean a little.
BaddeJimme 11 months ago
@letzCdis I don't understand. Glaciers are frozen because they originally were the ocean first...
huntsman1230 10 months ago
@letzCdis A give and take. Both views are right.
StormRisingOriginal 9 months ago
@letzCdis Volume volume volume. ice is water and water is ice. matter cannot be created or destroyed. matter can be transformed into different stages. Gas, liquid, or solid.
felixdaass 9 months ago
@letzCdis That's correct. its volume is being added
Beast9156 8 months ago
@letzCdis dont you see the ice thats not "in" the woter in the glass? The global warming alarmists have a grip on your logic.
topazeyes 7 months ago
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@letzCdis don't you see the ice that's not "in" the water in the glass? The global warming alarmists have a grip on your logic.
topazeyes 7 months ago
@letzCdis don't you see the ice that's not "in" the water in the glass? The global warming alarmists have a grip on your logic.
topazeyes 7 months ago
@letzCdis the priciples of science are very simple and not as complex as you would like to beleive,as a student of science,i am subject to the beleif that the simplest explenation is the right one,might i also add that evaporation must be taken into consideration,and also the every few centries or so the earth heats up and or cools,it is all part of a process that is eon's old.remember heat around moisture causes evaporation,if it were not so the earth would be a flooded mess i.e. rain.
stumpyale 7 months ago
This is so messed up, it's not only sloppy science, but it's misapplied science.
Water expands when it freezes, anyone who has made ice cubes, or had a tray of ice cubes melt on them knows that you fill the cells a little more than half to get full size ice cubes. If the glass with ice had been exactly full to the top, not over, then the level would have gone DOWN when the ice melted. But the ice was up above the top of the glass, so it came out even. Sloppy experiment.
letzCdis 1 year ago
MY HERO!!
diddymuck 1 year ago
They have just demonstrated the Law of Archimedes.
oomblikkies 1 year ago
When I first heard that melting ice caps will cause sea level to rise I immediately though back to this episode and said 'that doesn't make sense.' It wasn't until I learned years later that the majority of the ice rests on land and not in the sea that I realized my error. And that doesn't even account for thermal expansion.
rykoodasr 1 year ago
hey OP, repeat the experiment but rest ice on the edges of your container (angled edges work so water is directed into container) and check the results. all of the earth's ice isn't already floating in water.
tragicslip 1 year ago
@tragicslip
A better experiment for you would be to put a cup upside down in a large bowl. Fill the bowl to the top with water and ice. Put large chunks of ice on the cup out of the water. Add heat to the water and place the whole experiment in a freezer around 0 degrees F. This would best simulate the world and global warming. It has been proven that the world warms up We have record hot days still dating back over 100 years ago. We WILL have another ice age and balance of our temperature.
rickcrisbalthis 1 year ago
@rickcrisbalthis an ice age is likely to occur only if heat can efficiently escape the earth's atmosphere. carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, trioxide, and steam can help to trap some heat on earth. as those gases become more common in the atmosphere more heat is trapped and the next ice age (or temp. reset) is put off by a couple of thousand years.
tragicslip 1 year ago
Shows like this do not exist anymore because they soon realized that this, and shows like it would have the reverse effect they anticipated in the dumbing down of American youth. So there you have it; Barny, iCarly Dora, ect ect ect. But as for me and my house we will take advantage of unforseen aspects of technology and travel back in time to when they had real programs with real substance. Thanks Youtube, thanks posters!!!
fourminutewarning 1 year ago
lmao this doesnt prove anything. but i do miss mr wizard :(
pezcore68 1 year ago
This principle is true with regards to the northern polar ice cap, which is sea ice. It is not true with regards to the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets, which are continental glaciers and will add to the volume of the oceans. This is why amateurs should not dabble in science. (Not Mr. Wizard, the idiot who posted this on youtube with that BS title)
BigJ719 1 year ago 3
@BigJ719 Exactly. He doesn't mention anywhere that this experiment is even related to polar ice melt. The title of this video takes it completely out of context.
poshko41 1 year ago
@BigJ719
Warming oceans have no effect on continental ice because that ice is not in direct contact with the warm water. Wait until winter when it's below freezing outside, fill a wading pool half with dirt and half with hot water. Put one ice cube directly in the hot water and the other on the highest point of dirt away from the water. The hot water will melt the ice cube in it but the one up on the dirt will stay frozen.
gamewizard 1 year ago
she looks like vanessa from YCTDOTV
cainster 1 year ago
"Global climate change fraud debunked +20 years ago"
This video does nothing to debunk climate change.
Mattm1986 1 year ago
@Mattm1986 Yes it does address the concept of sea level changes due to global warming.
oomblikkies 1 year ago