where should i move if the polar ice caps melt?

Answer 1

They are not going to melt. Actually the temperature of the earth has increased less than 7/10 of 1 degree (C) from 1880 to 2005. That is an increase of about 1 degree (F) in 125 years. You may choose to believe that is global warming or you may not. Source: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2005/2005cal_fig1.gif There are numerous charts all over the internet showing the same. Some say that 1 degree is enough to impact the global climate, others say it's not. Most proponents of global warming think the earth's temperature has risen much more than that and don't even know that it has only risen by 1 degree. But the charts do not lie as do the proponents on both sides of this issue. The average temperature in the Antarctica is 109 degrees below zero. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica#Climate It seems to me 108 below (one degree warmer) is still pretty cold and not enough to melt anything. But there are those that say it will.

Back in the '70s all the hype was about global COOLING and another ice age was coming. I remember that they blamed pollution for that too. They said that all the pollution was darkening the skies and not as much sun was coming through so the earth was cooling off. It took many years to discover that they were mistaken and it was all just hype. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling So when someone says, "the sky is falling" don't believe everything you hear on either side of the issue. There are Spin Doctors galore out there.

Most of the time people will form an opinion and not really be informed about the subject with which they become so opinionated about. So it's best that you not form your opinions from other's opinions, (as in this forum) but on the facts presented. (Many do not provide any proof or links to prove their point, just their opinion.) With that said we do have a responsibility to do our part by doing whatever is within your power to keep our planet alive and well.

Try this experiment. Take a glass of water and fill it 2/3 full. Then drop in 3 or 4 ice cubes. Let it sit on the counter until all the ice melts. Did the glass fill up any more... Of course not. So even if the ice caps melted, the water level will not rise enough to harm anything.

I hope that helps...

Answer 2

If you want to move when the polar ice-caps melt, you should start budgeting to buy the USS Enterprise, right around now. Of course, you would have had nearly as much as you needed, by now, if you had started around 50 years ago, and could have saved, oh, about $1 million per day, give or take $10 thousand or $20 thousand per day.

You total MORON! There is nowhere to go if the polar ice-caps melt! How could you even ask such an INCREDIBLY stupid question! Do you have any idea of the sheer size of the ice-caps? They're so heavy that they have flattened the earth on both ends. The depth and the density of the ice-caps is so great that a nuclear bomb could not blast its way from the top to the bottom. There are chunks of ice as big as France! The polar ice-caps are not two little pieces of ice that would look pretty cute floating in the ocean. They're not ice-cubes that you could use to make a glass of Scotch-on-the-rocks! They're an entire eco-system! If even big parts of them melt, they would raise the level of the ENTIRE OCEAN by six feet!

Answer 3

Move anywhere you want to live. There is little to no chance that the Polar Ice caps will competely melt. We are in a warming cycle partial caused by increased output from the sun. This is being helped along because we took "nature" out of the use of hydrocarbons and adressed the particulate pollution problem which also upset the balance of heat trapped by greenhouse gases and heat rejected because of particulate pollution. Trust the government to apply laws that will make things worse instead of better. Man has never been able to manage the enviroment. We do not have enough informatiion, and there are too many variables. What we can do is jump on bandwagon causes and waste a lot of money, especially for those who can least afford it, Buying new appliances, new cars and such is great if you are in Hollywood or are otherwise rich....... And every regulation will cost the middle and lower classes more and more., with little to no affect on climate change.

Answer 4

It relies upon in case you stay in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere. The Northern Hemisphere is very no longer very much impacted by the melting of the polar ice caps because it truly is going to spark an ice age very like the Little Ice Age. The desalination of the water in the Northern Atlantic will reason an really speedy cooling of the Northern Hemisphere which in turn will make each little thing from around the Washington, DC. section northward icebound. in case you stay in the Southern Hemisphere, only bypass up in the mountains for about a three hundred and sixty 5 days and then you'll bypass back on your waterlogged homestead:p. In all seriousness besides the undeniable fact that, an advance in international temperatures does no longer mean that the international sea degrees will upward thrust. in reality, in my own opinion, it truly is going to reason them to diminish because it truly is going to set off a hemispheric ice age.

Answer 5

When the Ice Caps completely melts away, the sea level will be raised about 55 feet to go, when it will be done. It may be completed about 4 or 5 more generations. Florida will no longer be a state, parts of Texas, and California will be gone. The new coastline will be at Philedephia, down to Nashville. I would guess you need to move somewhere in the middle. Canada??

Answer 6

Anywhere more than 80 metres above current sea level. This is the sea level rise you'd get if all the ice in the world melted.

Answer 7

You probably don't have to worry but your kids will. Basically you want to move wherever you want to, just you want to stay near areas where there aren't so many people because as the water cycles change across the planet, people will have to move to where there is fresh water and the local economy isn't totally disrupted by rising sealevels - Wherever that might be.

Answer 8

Well, how much they melt could be a determining factor.
But a great answer to me would be a very large yacht

Answer 9

zee_prime is right about how much the oceans will rise.

However, the resulting chaos of all the World's major ports and economic centers being wiped out will make no place "safe" !!

Answer 10

Tibet.