2006-06-17 12:55:44 · 16 answers · asked by vkumar219 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
try this take a glass of water put a ice cube in it. How much of the cube is below the water level. (90%) So when it melts 90% of the content of the glass will not change the level of the water noticeably . Big Al wants you to think that all of the ice that turned to water will raise the level that much (100% of the cube) famous kook science
2006-06-17 13:14:21 · answer #1 · answered by retired_afmil 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The polar ice cap as a whole is shrinking. Images from NASA satellites show that the area of permanent ice cover is contracting at a rate of 9 percent each decade. If this trend continues, summers in the Arctic could become ice-free by the end of the century.
2006-06-17 20:07:58 · answer #2 · answered by mik 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, to answer the question truthfully:
They have been melting for a long time. They are melting now. When will they be completely melted? Well that all depends. Whether or not global warming is caused by fossil fuels and methane it will happen sometime in the future. It has happened in the past numerous time and I would put money on it that it will happen again numerous times. (If I would actually be there to collect)
2006-06-17 20:02:20 · answer #3 · answered by Rev Mel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people guess within the next two hundred years. Although that is entirely speculation. The direction our weather goes - either to global warming or global freezing - is still undecided.
That's right. Our world isn't necessarily getting warmer. It also may be getting colder. For instance, did you know that there is an effect called "Global Dimming", caused by overcast skies and polution blocking light? The United States is 40% darker than it was in the 1950s. This lowers the temperature considerably - an effect that is helping keep Global Warming at bay!
With no sunlight, it gets cold obviously. Then plant-life begins to die. And oxygen levels drop across the globe. Humanity dies off. Our world cleans itself up in another few hundred million years, and life begins anew.
And this future is so closely linked with global warming that we have to wonder - will we cook to death or freeze to death?
2006-06-17 20:01:06 · answer #4 · answered by blairs_smirking_revenge 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the ice caps ever melted, which is unlikely as most of the ice is in the coldest regions of earth, it would be tens of thousands of years.
2006-06-19 05:38:32 · answer #5 · answered by AF 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Considering the the Earth moves in a time frame from immediately to ten thousand years from now, I would say "soon".
2006-06-17 20:01:02 · answer #6 · answered by Mama Otter 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Polar ice is already receeding. It has been for awhile.
2006-06-17 21:15:26 · answer #7 · answered by forbidden_planet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Al Gore gives us ten years. And we all know how reliable he is. I mean didn't He invent the Internet?
2006-06-17 20:05:33 · answer #8 · answered by » mickdotcom « 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one REALLY knows. But it'll probably happen a few thousand years from now.
2006-06-18 15:05:57 · answer #9 · answered by Monkey's are cool 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
5pm tommorrow according to al gore
2006-06-17 21:55:23 · answer #10 · answered by Bryan H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋