Icefin is particularly useful for investigating the grounding zone of Thwaites, the point at which the glacier touches the ocean floor, which has previously been almost impossible to study. The grounding zone of this glacier has retreated by 8.7 miles (14 kilometers) since the 1990s, making Thwaites one of the fastest-changing glaciers in Antarctica. The factors causing this retreat are, however, poorly understood. Climate activism only leans green and left because of failure of those who don't lean green or left to participate constructively - and chose instead to oppose and obstruct. That opposing hasn't been to prevent unreasonable left leaning extremism but to prevent legitimate accountability applying to commerce and industry. 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. When those who lean right come out from behind the Wall of Denial and face up to the climate problem with eyes open, head on, we will begin seeing more constructive climate policies that are much more effective.

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.

Melting Point Determination

Frankly, I think it is probably better communication of the reality and severity of the sea level situation for the governments to be seen to be actively planning for that future, instead of just using it as a scare tactic and implying that the whole thing can be avoided. My own planning is that my present home may become unlivable with greater and greater probability over the next few decades, with the actual transition date depending on when a hurricane with the actual devastating effects hits here instead of somewhere else. It could happen this summer . It probably will happen in the next 30 years. Ken , the intent of that particular sentence in my post was a response to the previous posts that talked about other natural cycles (e.g., "Solar Maximum and Minimum activities. And pole shift events"), which have little-to-nothing to do with global climate. Yes, there are theories that somegthing like a grand solar minimum might trigger an ice age, but even if true, it would be in relation to the climate being set-up for it by the Milankovitch Cycles in the Earth's orbital and rotational precession patterns. For a solid to melt, heat is required to raise its temperature to the melting point. However, further heat needs to be supplied for the melting to take place: this is called the heat of fusion, and is an example of latent heat. [ citation needed]

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] So, in reality, we need to be planning for substantial sea level rise even as we try to cut our human effects on the climate. 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. 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. The melting point (or, rarely, liquefaction point) of a substance is the temperature at which it changes state from solid to liquid. At the melting point the solid and liquid phase exist in equilibrium. The melting point of a substance depends on pressure and is usually specified at a standard pressure such as 1 atmosphere or 100 kPa.Melting points are often used to characterize organic and inorganic compounds and to ascertain their purity. The melting point of a pure substance is always higher and has a smaller range than the melting point of an impure substance or, more generally, of mixtures. The higher the quantity of other components, the lower the melting point and the broader will be the melting point range, often referred to as the "pasty range". The temperature at which melting begins for a mixture is known as the solidus while the temperature where melting is complete is called the liquidus. Eutectics are special types of mixtures that behave like single phases. They melt sharply at a constant temperature to form a liquid of the same composition. Alternatively, on cooling a liquid with the eutectic composition will solidify as uniformly dispersed, small (fine-grained) mixed crystals with the same composition.