The day after tomarrow is a stupid movie! If all the ice melted in the water it wouldnt do anything because with the ice unmelted its still the same! If the ice melted itd still be the same becuase its already in the water..... Who thinks its stupid besides me?
2007-01-18 03:39:35 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
The issue is not the water.. it is the salinity of the water.. Ice melt has no real quantity of salts dissolved within. However the North Atlantic current (which includes the gulf stream) gets progressively more dense as the salinity rises. this occurs because the warm surface Current moves toward Europe and looses some water to evaporation, this not only cools the water but increases the density. the water then sinks as it turns west toward Greenland. If a sufficient quantity of fresh water were to dump into the ocean it would block the motion of the warm surface currents because freshwater is even less dense than warm sea water..... And if you are referring to the "wall" of water that hit New York in the film that is a product of the Low pressure system which was moving toward the area. Even a relatively small hurricane or typhoon can suck the ocean up several feet at the center of the low pressure. In the film they used a fictitious super storm. Which was a massive low pressure system. This is the likely cause of the wall of water.. that and driving winds heading counter clockwise into the storm cell can also drive the water higher.. Granted the movie was fiction and completely made up.. the sciences behind the events seen are mostly sound.. some literary license was taken.. it is a movie.
2007-01-18 05:24:15 · answer #1 · answered by syco1337 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is a lot of debate over the effects of polar ice caps melting, and just because you don't understand the concept doesn't mean its stupid. First of all, if you fill a glass to the brim with water and ice, then let the ice melt, the water level will go DOWN because ice is less dense then then water. That is why it floats. However, not all the ice is actually IN the water, some is on the ground. With that ice melting, that would ADD to the amount of water in the oceans. I'm sure it doesn't take a genius to figure out that if you add to what you already have, then you will have more.
And yes, the movie is SOMEWHAT plausible. The pace and extremity were increased to a few days, instead of a few centuries.
2007-01-18 12:30:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the ice sitting on the ground that's the problem. When that melts it runs into the sea, raising sea levels and disrupting ocean currents that are crucial to keeping some places like Europe warm.
2007-01-18 13:03:36 · answer #3 · answered by Bob 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As the ice melts the sea level rises. It doesn't just blend in with the water. Fill a glass with water add ice cubes. after the ice melts there will be more water in the glass than what you put into it.
2007-01-18 12:06:32 · answer #4 · answered by sydb1967 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The ice comes and goes over long time periods of about a million years. It been doing this for many millions of years and nothing humans do or don't do will change that cycle. Maybe we could sacrifice a few virgins if that would help it used to work did it not?
2007-01-18 12:09:54 · answer #5 · answered by jim m 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋