2006-06-21 20:03:51 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Well your intuition here is correct. Just as ice cubes melting in water will not cause the glass to overflow, neither will metling icebergs (I assume you meant icebergs).
But as someone here pointed out, not all of the stored ice is floating about in the oceans, a lot of it is on land.When that ice melts and runs off into the oceans, the levels will rise.
2006-06-21 20:20:45 · answer #1 · answered by bloggerdude2005 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The concern of global warming is not the melting of icebergs floating in the ocean, but the melting of the polar ice caps and glaciers on land, the runoff of which would eventually find it's way into the oceans. That would indeed raise sea level.
2006-06-21 20:07:49 · answer #2 · answered by Harry 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm, my first thought raises another question. If ice is less dense than water, and most of an iceberg is underwater, then the sea levels would drop when the icebergs melt. The melting of the glaciers is just a symptom of the earth getting warmer, which raises a fear that the earth is in trouble. In truth, the earth is not at the hottest it gets natually.
2006-06-21 20:09:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not the melting of an individual glacier that is a problem.. It is the fear that global warming will lead to the wholesale melting of the Arctic ice packs; that much melting WOULD raise the coastal water levels.
2006-06-21 20:08:49 · answer #4 · answered by druid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually their melting will increase the levels of the ocean drastically. Here is a small example almost all of florida is now under water also most of the eastern seaboard of the US is now under water as well. Yep could be a mjor problem.
2006-06-21 20:08:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ice above the surface is not part of the water below the surface. the melted ice would add to the ammount of sea water. Its like a single ice cube in a glass of water. it floats right? push the cube under the surface more and the water level rises.
2006-06-24 15:47:23 · answer #6 · answered by Demonata 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the ones floating on the sea are Icebergs Glaciers are on land usually up mountains or covering the Antarctic. If they all melt all land under 300 feet will disappear.
2006-06-21 20:10:02 · answer #7 · answered by Robert B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Glaciers do not float on oceans ...... there is an entire land continent under the ice at the north pole.
2006-06-21 20:08:08 · answer #8 · answered by sam21462 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cos antartica is a monster glacier and a significant portion of that sh*t is actually sticking out of the water, and ice is condensed frozen water, so theres more there than u think cuz, the beaches of the world would get totally f*cked on
2006-06-21 20:07:46 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it would increase the water level.
2006-06-22 03:06:30 · answer #10 · answered by Carly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋