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by meindnoch 1288 days ago
>10^12 kg of water

That's exactly 1 km^3 of water. The Earth has 1,386,000,000 km^3 of surface water.

I don't think increasing the amount of water by ~0.00000007% would be noticeable.

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It would probably mess up any km^2 of inhabited landmass.
Sure. And a glass of water can kill you if it goes in your lungs.

But stick to the charitable interpretation, where the water is distributed evenly in the environment, shall we?

If we want to be charitable, then perhaps you’d see that my point was specifically about how the scale was important, and that averaging impact out over the entire globe was perhaps not the correct scale