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According to many voices today, if the polar ices melt, the sea-level will rise.

How much of the ice near the north and south pole are located "on land," that is not floating in the water?

If an iceberg melts, it shouldn't rise the sea level. Or is it different with the enourmous ices at the poles?

Thanks for any smart input.

2007-02-01 22:54:49 · 3 answers · asked by Bo K 1 in Environment

3 answers

"The Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets cover 10% of the Earth’s land area and contain 77% of the world’s freshwater. The ice sheets comprise 99% of all the glacier ice on earth. The average thickness of both are approximately 2100 meters, but the Antarctic ice sheet (14x106km2 in area) contains about ten times the ice volume of the Greenland ice sheet(1.7x106km2 in area)."

"If all the fresh water ice locked in ice sheets and glaciers were to melt it would cause a sea level rise of nearly 80 meters."

A bit scary, huh?!

2007-02-02 01:57:17 · answer #1 · answered by Yahzmin ♥♥ 4ever 7 · 0 0

If all the ice on water melts it will raise the ocean level around 2 inches, it's the ice on land that will raise the ocean level.

2014-08-08 19:30:24 · answer #2 · answered by wgalbra7@verizon.net 2 · 0 0

There is significantly more ice in the water, than there is on land. When ice melts the space fills up with more water than there was ice. Therefore the water level would drop significantly more than if the freshwater melterd....it's a fact

2014-04-10 14:07:03 · answer #3 · answered by Tom 1 · 0 0

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