If ANTARCTICA Melted the whole would turn into 95-98 percent water. what do you guys think.?

Answer 1

Not true.
Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey estimate that If all of the ice sitting on land in Greenland and Antarctica melted it would cause global sea levels to rise by about 215 feet, or about 65 meters.

Fortunately, even the most dire scientific, global warming scenarios do not have all of the ice melting, especially in Antarctica.

To understand what could happen as the polar regions warm up, you need to have a clear picture of how glaciers, ice sheets, and sea ice work.

A glacier, or a large ice sheet, forms when more snow falls than melts each year. As the snow falls, it compresses the snow under it, turning it into dense "glacier ice." For more on how a glacier or an ice sheet grows, see my answer to a question about the age of Greenland's ice.

As a glacier, or ice sheet builds up, the weight pushes the ice outward. A glacier in a valley will spread down the valley. An ice sheet will spread out in all directions.

The edge of a glacier can be on the water, or on land. If it's on the water, pieces break off as icebergs. On land, the edges melt and the water flows to the sea in streams and rivers.

The answer to the question: Is polar ice melting? is: It's been melting since the height of the last ice age.

The real question is: Is the ice melting faster than falling snow is adding new ice?

This is certainly the case with many glaciers around the world, mostly in regions outside the Arctic and Antarctica. It could be true of Greenland, but no one expects all of Greenland's ice to melt in this century. If all of Greenland's ice melted, it would cause sea levels to rise by about 21 feet, or 6.5 meters.

Melting of Antarctic ice would supply the rest of the 215 feet of sea level rise from melting polar ice.
The good news is that this seems highly unlikely, certainly for next few thousand years. In its 2001 report on climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that melting all of Antarctica's ice would require global temperatures to be about 36 degrees F (20 C) higher than now.

This is more than three times the greatest warming seen as possible this century and is "a situation that has not occurred for at least 15 million years and which is far more than predicted by any scenario of climate change currently under consideration,"

Answer 2

Not true, however the water level would rise 15 feet worldwide and drown millions if not billions. However this would also lead to another ice age as well so the Arctic and Antarctic would refreeze and things would cool down. This is Sciences best guess as to the future of Earth, however they do remeind us that Our children's children would not see this.

Answer 3

wrong.

if an ice cube melts in your glass of ice tea, does it cause a buttload of water to run out of the glass? the ice is already displacing the water around it. melting it won't cause the volume to increase.

Answer 4

I thought the general concensus was that the world's mass was already 97% water and only 3% land... maybe I am wrong though...

Answer 5

Obviously, Kevin Costner would rise to power because of his extensive water experience as seen in "Waterworld".

Answer 6

I think evolution better make me a fish really fast!

Either that, or I shall steal a large cruiseship and name it after myself and declared myself the ruler of the 'land.'

Answer 7

Plus there wouldn't be so many cute penguins, and that would really suck.