I just saw An Inconvenient Truth, and I notice there was a part that places like Florida will be submerged because of this problem. Will this include Philippines (located in the south east asia)
Please let me know the details which company or scientists or people that Al Gore talked to for that particular info, so maybe I'll do more research on it.
I would appreciate this. Thank you.
2006-12-13 21:54:48 · 5 answers · asked by simpsongs 2 in Environment
one can only hope.
2006-12-13 22:02:24 · answer #1 · answered by irmaynerds 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes and no. Parts of the Philippines are low and near sea level and could potentially flood, but other parts are much higher altitude and will not flood regardless of how much global warming occurs.
Being an island nation with many parts near the ocean, it is likely that many parts of the Philippeans could flood.
Global warming may cause the sea level to rise if some ice covered areas such as greenland melt. However it is also possible for global warming to cause a large FALL in sea levels.
The amount of ice in the icecaps is a product of the amount of new snow and melting. If the world warms, then over much of the oceans more water will evaporate, and that evaporated water will either fall as snow or rain elsewhere. In some cold places more snow could still accumulate even if the land was "warmer" but still cold enough to cause snow and not rain.
Global warming could also change weather patterns and some locations may become colder, while others become warmer. Especialy if the currents in the atlantic ocean change, then northern Europe could become much colder even if the average world temp is warmer.
Currently there is no 100% consensus if global warming and ocean level change. Maybe more scientists believe it will rise than fall but how much is of considerable debate, as we can't really know how everything in the world weather patterns will respond to global warming or even how much global warming will happen.
2006-12-14 09:53:06 · answer #2 · answered by Dr Fred 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Can't anybody get past the hype ?
Yes, Maps of rise of 10, 50 and 100 METERS would be very scary stuff !
Best estimates ( http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/science/core/earth/sciber9/Stand_4/html/2d.htm , http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/environment/sealevel.html)
suggest a rise of 30 CENTIMETERS in the next 50 years - to reach that first 'scare level' of a 10 meter rise would take OVER A THOUSAND YEARS.
NASA's own Satellites (
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2005-111 )
suggest 0.3 cm / yr - at this rate 10 m rise would take OVER 3 THOUSAND YEARS.
Of course the rate of rise could increase - however EVEN IF 100% of the ice melted, the sea level rise could NEVER reach 100m (there is not enough water on the planet :-) )
2006-12-21 07:34:25 · answer #3 · answered by Steve B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Search the web with the key words SEA LEVEL RISE. Check images. You will see maps for 10 meter, 60 meter, 100 meter sea level rise. Also check a site called global flooding. Those maps are scary. Hopefully that will NOT happen!
2006-12-13 22:06:09 · answer #4 · answered by anybody 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only some parts
I went in Cebu six months ago and it is still ok
2006-12-18 07:42:19 · answer #5 · answered by pingouin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋