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   From: crwlrjeff@yahoo.com   
      
   "TibetanMonkey, the Beach Cruiser Philosopher"    
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   On Aug 6, 1:35 am, sms88  wrote:   
   > On 8/5/2012 9:31 PM, TibetanMonkey, the Beach Cruiser Philosopher wrote:   
   >   
   > > Which is why the Panama Canal has compartments to avoid the water   
   > > rushing toward the lower level.   
   >   
   > Actually that's not the reason at all. It's true that you would get   
   > about a 6MPH flow from the Pacific to the Atlantic if it was a sea-level   
   > canal with no locks, but the main reason for the locks is to carry ships   
   > over a terrain that is higher than both oceans.   
      
   The Wise Man always bows to evidence and science. You are right, I'm   
   right, and the ones playing in the bathtub with playboats are wrong...   
      
   (I QUOTE)   
      
   Sea level is about 20 cm higher on the Pacific side than the Atlantic   
   due to the water being less dense on the Pacific side, on average, and   
   due to the prevailing weather and ocean conditions. Such sea level   
   differences are common across many short sections of land dividing   
   ocean basins.   
      
   +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++   
   Ice is fresh water, not salt water. If there was a "percentage" that could   
   be figured out (for the sake of simplicity, I'll suggest 1%), then that   
   percentage increase would be applied across the globe. Removing the land   
   sinking from one side of the ocean and the land rising on the other, and the   
   Atlantic being 20cm lower than the Pacific, if there was a 1%, or 10%   
   increase in the ocean waters, that increase would be global. Tides might   
   make a 1%, or 10%, increase a catastrophy, but the fact remains that as the   
   ice melts, FRESH water flows into the oceans and mixes with the salt water   
   that is already there, and the entire ocean is affected on a percentage   
   basis exactly the same.   
      
   Yes, some places might suffer more than others, but the sufferage does not   
   change the laws of fluid dynamics that says water seeks its own level.   
      
   PS   
   You assert that the Atlantic is higher than the Pacific in Central America   
   (or vice versa), but I'd like to point out that the Atlantic and the Pacific   
   merge off the coast of South America in the Straits of Madgellan. Just   
   thought I'd point out some geography that shoots holes in your assertion   
   that one ocean is higher than another.   
      
   I'm reminded of the off-color joke about the Polish Ski Team, and why there   
   isn't one. They can't find a lake with a hill in it.   
      
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