]> 2012-05-23T13:11:14+00:00 What If All the Ice Melts What would happen if all the ice in the polar ice caps melts? How much would sea levels rise? { #Get the volume of ice totalVolumeOfIce = sparql("SELECT ?x WHERE{<http://www.moxy.com.au/Wiki/a#Global_Grounded_Ice> prop:Volume ?x}"); #Get the volume in km3 totalVolumeOfIce = utConvert(totalVolumeOfIce, "km3",1); #Fetch the ice density and water density iceDensity = utConvert(sparql("SELECT ?x WHERE{<http://www.moxy.com.au/Wiki/a#Water_Ice> prop:Density ?x}"),'kg/m3',1); waterDensity = utConvert(sparql("SELECT ?x WHERE{<http://www.moxy.com.au/Wiki/a#Water> prop:Density ?x}"),'kg/m3',1); #Calculate the volume of water created when the ice melts totalVolumeOfWater = totalVolumeOfIce * iceDensity / waterDensity; #Get the area of the ocean seaArea = utConvert(sparql("SELECT ?x WHERE{<http://www.moxy.com.au/Wiki/a#Ocean> prop:Area ?x}"),'km2',1); #Divide the volume of water by the area of the ocean, and convert to meters seaLevelIncrease = utConvert("km", "m", totalVolumeOfWater / seaArea); #Return a string containing the units, rounded to the nearest 10 meters paste(round(seaLevelIncrease, -1), "m"); } SeaLevelIncrease DecisionSituation Prediction