is this true?

Question

are the polar ice caps melting at an alarming rate and if so what will happen to the weather

Answer 1

Yes. Global warming is to blame. Global temperature may increase from 1.4 to 5.8 °C (2.5 to 10.5 °F) between 1990 and 2100.

* significant slowing of the ocean circulation that transports warm water to the North Atlantic,
* large reductions in the Greenland and West Antarctic Ice Sheets,
* accelerated global warming due to carbon cycle feedbacks in the terrestrial biosphere, and
* releases of terrestrial carbon from permafrost regions and methane from hydrates in coastal sediments.


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Answer 2

Several data studies that I have looked at, including a report by CBS, has shown that Antarctica has cooled over the last 30 years.

So, I don't know who to believe when someone says that the polar ice caps are melting at an alarming rate. Makes me want to sit back and wait for more definitive data instead of flying around the country screaming,"the sky is warming up, the sky is warming up."

Answer 3

While there may be significant support for a change in ice allocation at the north pole, there has been no official or effective measurement of the ice mass of the south pole and therefore no hypothesis can be supported.

Assuming that both are true, though, there is still no way to predict long-term effects on our local and global climate. There is no data that links warming trends or high sea levels to any particular weather patterns. The common (and popular) mistake is to assume that we understand our environment enough to assume we know enough to state the trends that will come in our future.

While meteorologists have a hard time predicting whether or not it will rain in three days for sure, climatologists safely assume that if the temperature rises so will the ferocity of nature's wrath. But change does not always permit the worst of things to come.

So go on an make assumptions about the environment, but the truth is that we know too little about that which surrounds us to say weather patterns will DEFINATELY do this, or DEFINATELY not do that.


Of course others will provide data, but one would automatically assume all data is correct and take credibility for granted. I merely look at the truth of the situation.

Answer 4

ice caps r melting ,there temperature increase of bout 2 to 1 degree Celsius every 4 to 15 years
it doesn't sound to much ............but it is a drastic change.as far as weather is concerned it will go on becoming unpredictable ............ and become even more harsh, for instance floods due to too much rain in the place where there had been no rain for centuries,grass in polar region is an another example........... this ultimately gonna result in the extinction of various species of plant n animals ,which will not be able adjust the situation............. as Charles Darwin stated: survival of the fittest

Answer 5

yes this is true it is caused by global warming where fuels are burnt to give off gases which go into the air and destroy the ozone layer making the ultravoilet rays of more dangerous to us this causes the ice caps to melt the melting of the ice caps will cause the rising of sea levels some islands will be covered by water by late this century