OK People. This is evidence against the idea that global warming will melt the ice and flood the world.?

Question

Take a glass. Put a couple of ice cubes in it (ice caps). Fill it with water to the brim (the sea). When the ice melts, you will find that the water level hasn't risen. Why? Well, why does ice float? There is air in it. When the ice melts, the air is realesed. Making room for the ice to expand without making the water level rise. My idea my be wrong, but, it might not.

Answer 1

It is wrong. 90% of the world's ice is on the Antarctic continent and enough ice covers Greenland to add 20 feet to the ocean alone. So, you're theory applies to the arctic ice cap, but not the remainder of the ice - which covers land.

However, if the Arctic ice cap melts, it would warm the oceans world-wide. How? Ice reflects the sun's energy, ocean absorbs it. If there's more ocean more energy is absorbed and the ocean gets warmer. Why does that matter? Without the cooling effects of the Arctic ice cap, the tracks of the major currents would be altered. Thus the Gulf Stream (which travels across the Atlantic and north to the ice caps, where the cooler temperatures send the cool water down, where it heads back south to the equator) would stop bringing the warmer, milder winters to Europe. So Europe would get significantly colder as a result of global warming.

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Answer 2

There are several problems with your thesis.

A) The ice in question is on land, and some is on sea, but if you change the temprature of your water it expands and overflows the cup. When seawater raises in temprature it's mass expands.

B) It's not rising seas that cause the big problems with global warming models. Desalinization of seawater can cause bigger problems with the way sea currents rotate and cause climate shifts, like the desertification of the American mid-west.

C) Nobody claims that the rising seas will climb more than 30 feet. Even the most doomsday models (that might be far fetched, but they exist) have a total of a 30 foot increase in sea level. Most models claim lower shifts of anywhere from 1 to 10 feet.

D) The biggest problems in most global warming models are more of food production and climate problems. Rising seas, while could cause costal areas more problems, aren't the big deal here.

No matter what you think of the Global Warming situation, information never hurt anybody. For the lazy, Tom Brokaw is doing a special on Discovery Channel this Sunday night, probably a good Idea to watch it.

Answer 3

Take a glass of water. Fill it *almost* to the brim. Add ice until the water reaches the brim and the ice cubes are sticking out *above* the rim (like glaciers). As the ice melts it will add more water and so the water will spill over. Do this in a cool room (or refrigerator) to lessen the condensation and evaporation.

There you go. The water spilled over.

Answer 4

Good melt the ice. Flood New York, New Orleans, Boston, San Francisco, and a lot of other places that are close to sea level. *LOL* Most of them are Democrat strongholds anyway.

By the way your idea is flawed. If the majority of ice melts the sea levels will rise. They did after every ice age.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

ummmmmmm.................NO, actually ice floats because for some reason it has less density than water,not because of air,and actually the water does rise it just doesnt overflow usually,so even though global warming is only a natural part of earth that we really arent causing because theres other factors than humans (i know huh,shocking isnt it?)like the fact that trees and animals release greenhouse gas,like the tropical rainforests like the amazon release huge amounts of methane and so do animals.al gore is just a douche man dont listen to his douchyness lol.

Answer 7

that is a great point, but there is another issue other than global waarming that most people don't know about, it is called GLOBAL COOLING this is no joke look it up they just realized that pollution may not only eat a hole in the o-zone it may actually be blanketing the earth so that not enough sunlight can get through like it should.
food for thought....

Answer 8

Good theory....but I think wrong...maybe you should watch the Al Gore documentary?

Answer 9

Dude, did you actually *try* this before you posted the question?? Might have been a good plan...

Answer 10

Interesting!

Ricardo F, how is it wrong? You have to have a theory behind what you think, or else YOU are wrong.