what will happen whe the ice from the poles will melt due to globle warming?

Question

north pole and south pole.

Answer 1

certain land masses would rise up from the reduced weight, but the albedio of the earth would go up and it would jumpstart an iceage.

Answer 2

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I really, really, really hope this is a joke. Otherwise I'm extremely saddened for the future of our country. As for the original question:

You ask a terribly loaded question. "What WILL happen WHEN the ice from the poles WILL melt due to global warming?"

IF, I repeat IF, ice caps melt (whether or not it is caused by anthropogenic global warming is an entirely different discussion), there will be sea level changes. The melting of the Polar Ice Cap won't change sea levels, since it already rests in the ocean and displaces as much water as ice as it would as water. If the Greenland ice pack or 1/2 of the Antarctic ice pack melted into the ocean, sea levels would rise by around 20 ft. Coastal areas would flood, and weather patterns in coastal areas would change.

There are a lot of unknowns in climatology, so besides sea levels rising, the rest of the effects are at best a good guess.

Answer 3

It will lead to more global warming and then eventually another ice age. I believe this has happened many times before and it is inevitable that it will happen again. Look into Paleobotany and other Paleo- information. During the time of the dinosaurs there were no ice caps and then millions of year later due to changing earth plates and other factors the ice caps were created. It is a very interesting question and fun to research.

Answer 4

It is very true that the last global cooling cycle ended in the 1800's and the Earth has been on a Natural warming trend since then. But this issue has been totally used to cause undue fear into the general masses.

Noaa has been taking ocean temperatures over subduction zones with increased undersea volcanic activity and using the data to support new taxes on the general masses.

Noaa just got busted by a Japan research team and are now trying to explain away their misleading information.

Go to the Noaa web-page and read about their backtracking for yourself, don't take my word for it.

Why have they been lying to us? Maybe it's a matter of funding, do you think they would be getting funding for all that fancy equipment with reports that we have cleaned up our act?

Answer 5

Global warming is the observed increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans in recent decades.

The Earth's average near-surface atmospheric temperature rose 0.6 ± 0.2 °Celsius (1.1 ± 0.4 °Fahrenheit) in the 20th century. The prevailing scientific opinion on climate change is that "most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities"[1].

The increased amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the primary causes of the human-induced component of warming. They are released by the burning of fossil fuels, land clearing and agriculture, etc. and lead to an increase in the greenhouse effect. The first speculation that a greenhouse effect might occur was by the Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius in 1897, although it did not become a topic of popular debate until some 90 years later. [2]

The measure of the response to increased GHGs, and other anthropogenic and natural climate forcings, is climate sensitivity. It is found by observational [3] and model studies. This sensitivity is usually expressed in terms of the temperature response expected from a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere. The current literature estimates sensitivity in the range 1.5–4.5 °C (2.7–8.1 °F). Models referenced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) project that global temperatures may increase between 1.4 and 5.8 °C (2.5 to 10.5 °F) between 1990 and 2100. The uncertainty in this range results from both the difficulty of estimating the volume of future greenhouse gas emissions and uncertainty about climate sensitivity.

An increase in global temperatures can in turn cause other changes, including a rising sea level and changes in the amount and pattern of precipitation. These changes may increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts, heat waves, hurricanes, and tornados. Other consequences include higher or lower agricultural yields, glacial retreat, reduced summer streamflows, species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors. Warming is expected to affect the number and magnitude of these events; however, it is difficult to connect particular events to global warming. Although most studies focus on the period up to 2100, warming (and sea level rise due to thermal expansion) is expected to continue past then, since CO2 has an estimated 50 to 200 year long average atmospheric lifetime [4]. Only a small minority of climate scientists discount the role that humanity's actions have played in recent warming. However, the uncertainty is more significant regarding how much climate change should be expected in the future, and there is a hotly contested political and public debate over what, if anything, should be done to reduce or reverse future warming, and how to deal with the predicted consequences.


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Answer 6

WEll .. melting of the poles would have many effects on our ecology!
First.. as one of the ppl mentioned, many coastal regions would be dorwned under water... the wild life at the poles would be affected...
Besides.. the radius of the earth would increase.. and due to this the earth's rotation speed would decrease and the gravity would decrease!

Answer 7

a million. sea ranges will upward push, flooding many coastal factors maximum well known to catastrophic displacement of hundreds of thousands of human beings. this might bring about war, famine and fiscal and social chaos. 2. a known theory among scientists is that the launch of vast quantities of unpolluted water will decrease off the 'super Ocean Conveyor', which strikes heat water in to the Atlantic. this might set off a brilliant freeze of Northern u . s . and Europe. it could bring about a clean ice age.

Answer 8

The fresh water from the ice caps will mix into the ocean causing the oceanic conveyor to stop, ushering in a new ice age.

Answer 9

Due to polar ice cap melting the sea level will increase causing submergence of low lying areas near sea.Large areas of land in all continents will get submerged.

Answer 10

The sea level will rise, causing coasts to change drastically (because water will flow further inland), and places that are below sea level and without protection from the higher water will pretty much disappear.