will the countries be underwater, or will all the water dry up in hundreds of years???

Question

i heard something about how italy will be underwater in a couple hundred years. but isnt the water level in the oceans going down (drying up)?
i'm confused....

Answer 1

Many scientists believe that the earth is getting warmer because of the pollution that cars and electric power plants are putting into the atmosphere. If it does get warmer, then the ice on the north and south pole might melt, and that water would go into the ocean. That would make the ocean water level go higher, and put parts of land that are close to the ocean under water.

Answer 2

I've been really interested in this for a while, and I think I have some pretty cool facts to share:

Whether the polar ice caps are melting only because of pollution or they're melting in unison with a natural glaciation trend is a source of debate, because lots of scientists believe we're still living in an ice age. The period to which you and I refer as the "ice age" is really called glaciation, but the age itself is very long, and contains many cycles: some warm, some cold.

Dropped lode stones along the equator recently proved that the entire earth was once a ball of snow. Using the magnetic charge of the lode stones, scientists were able to trace them back to the poles, from where they traveled embedded in glaciers. As the glaciers spread inward from the poles, they reflected the sun away from the earth, so that it became colder and colder, and the ice could spread further and further.

The only reason that Earth didn't remain a snowball was that underground volcanoes ruptured the snow's surface, and created a "greenhouse gas effect" -- heard that before? We're making a lot of that ourselves, with fossil fuels. It is feasible that our greenhouse gasses will do the rest of what nature started, and melt the ice caps, which would make the seas rise. Here's an interactive map of how it may progress:

http://geongrid.geo.arizona.edu/arcims/website/slr1kmglobal/viewer.htm

Answer 3

No, the water is rising because of the global warming. The higher temperatures are melting the polar glaciers, and the higher water level will cause the coastlines to creep further inland.

Answer 4

You mean Venice will be under water don't you?
Of course that is a misconception, and actually your second statement is true: the oceans are drying up cause of all the sponges in the bottom of the Pacific that are soaking up the water.

Answer 5

water does not disappear when it seems to be gone. it evaporates into the atmosphere or soaks into the ground -- all to be recycled again and again. We are using the same water now as was available from the beginning.

Answer 6

water will never dry up... cities around the coast will be underwater in a few thousands of years.. like new orleans.. it's floating on top of water.. but it'll sink one day.. with me in it :(.. but it won't happen in a few lifetimes

Answer 7

The glaciers are melting with global warming and all that water has to go somewhere. But I won't be around then so why lose sleep over it?

Answer 8

Ocean levels as rising. However, those that could do something about this won't and in hundreds of years it won't matter to us, we'll be dead.

Answer 9

Doubtful, but hopefully the christian myths will dry up and float away......

Answer 10

i am confused too.. this whole global warming deal is just too confusing!!