What will happen if the world's glaciers melts completely? what will happen to man? Just die or live?

Answer 1

If just Greenland melts completely, the oceans will rise 25 feet all over the world. So figure all those tall hotels you see on the beaches....they will be flooded up to about the 20th floor at least. Just Greenland melting would also turn the USA into 2 countries as the ocean would merge with the great lakes and the entire mississippi river valley all the way back down to the ocean again.

Man....he will just move more inland. But if the glaciers melt that means the earth is heating up. That sounds bad cause it means it kills off some animals and plants due to heat, weather change, worse storms, etc.

But melting all the ice would release more CO2 then is presently in the air. Enough so that every last breathing thing would die due to carbon monoxide poisoning. Scientists are starting to believe this is what brought down the dinosaurs....could of been a meteor or an earthquake, volcano, etc....but it was the warming of the earth in turn releasing more gas that is what actually killed them off.

And once you start to release the gas in quantity it begins to block out the sun which in turn starts to cool the planet and turns it into an ice age.

All this takes 100's and 1000's of years but we are speading it up to where the effects are effecting us now and will effect our children and their children.

Answer 2

It will flood all over the world and drown most of the people but not all. People would have to learn to live on boats and eat only fish if that happens. In a thousand years, our lives will be like those of the Eskimos in Alaska.

Answer 3

Mankind would live but the world would be drastically changed and the death toll would be in the millions For instance I wouldn't be posting this because all of the US eastern seaboard would be under water

Answer 4

Severe flood on land killing thousands of people.

I don't know what happen to man but women will definitely scream....

Answer 5

Man kind will survive as we have done for thousands of years. We just need to make sure we build our arks.

Answer 6

I would think that the world's climate would change so much, most, if not all, people would die.

Answer 7

Humankind, if we survive long enough to see such a thing occur (which is extremely doubtful) will probably just keep on keeping on!!

Answer 8

I have developed the worlds first human "gill" check it out at www.fishman.com.

Answer 9

most of the world will be covered with fresh water.some people will live

Answer 10

the whole earth wud b covered by water.unless v find a way of surviving underwater,we'd be dead.