Will it be cool/exciting to see the Arctic without ice caps?

Question

Like knowing a train wreck is going to happen cause you left a coin on the track.

the Idea behind the coin was "We all try to do our little part in the making of a disaster, and some how feel we can take total credit for the out come"

Answer 1

You can do that now if you go to the dry valleys in Antarctica. But you will never see the majority of Antarctica ice free. The ice is a mile thick in most areas and there is no way it will all melt in your lifetime, even if global warming is much worse than the scientists are predicting.

And a coin on the track will not derail a trail. If something that small could really derail a train, trains would be derailing all them time and railroads would be too unreliable to use at all.

Answer 2

Sorry w/ my invention this will not happen:
Dear Al Gore:

Putting the technology together to start cleaning up and reintroducing new ozone to the atmosphere is possible. The cost and size of this project means taking a long term commitment. I am proposing the biggest cleanup in history. Al, I do not see any proposal that is realistic or proven at any cost, not even Washington can solve this problem. But if every person on earth does his or her share, we may be ok. Never-the-less, I see governments acting like a deer in a car’s headlights and people doing the same thing. The inevitable is almost upon us. Cleanup and change is the only option.
The first cleanup machine starts with a ten billion dollars investment. Ten year later with twenty-five machines operating, these machines will produce enough ozone to replace both holes at the poles. But more importantly, these machines will remove chemicals that deplete the ozone. Beyond making ozone, decreasing the poisons that deplete ozone, these machines reduce the major greenhouse gases and unbelievably we can have all this for fewer than one hundred billion dollars.
Beyond cleaning up our atmospheric mess as I am suggesting, we humans must do a better job reducing or cleaning up carbon monoxide, collecting and storing methane and ethane for fuel, burning less of everything, cleaning up our forests and using more solar insolation. Solar steam electric generators are the type of systems we need and are 90 percent efficient and near 100 percent if heat recovery is used. I believe nearly 30,000 MW are needed in the USA and Mexico over the next 30 years. This opens the door to new electric cars, new construction vital to our way of life, new bullet trains, and these industries produce new high paying jobs. From small scale solar generators on malls, to 2000 acre collector sights, these systems are viable and ready for production. The Federal Government must give up some land, money and have less regulation to help save the planet from disaster.
Al, spreading the message that we can help ourselves is a key to the development of these businesses. Washington can help: the businesses need grants, patents, land and regulations. Congress must create a pollution surcharge. From gas, coal, diesel, wood to cooling towers, from cattle, other ranches to cigarettes, from agriculture burning to airplane passengers, this surcharge can fund parts of these projects and many stationary pollution control devices in general.
Your personal support is very important to getting the atmosphere cleanup started and developing sights for solar generators.

Sincerely,

Answer 3

Not really. Simultaneously you're going to see:

Rich countries like the US desperately spending hundreds of billions of dollars to relocate people away from the lowest lying areas and rebuild infrastructure lost there. Also spending hundreds of billions relocating agriculture and irrigation systems to deal with changing temperature and precipitation patterns. All this causes a worldwide economic depression.

Poor countries already struggling to feed themselves won't be able to do any of that very well. Millions die of starvation. The rich countries won't help - they have their own problems.

With all that going on absolutely no one will say - cool, the ice caps are gone. It would be like looking at the bleeding corpses scattered around the train wreck and saying - cool.

Answer 4

In all seriousness, I'm sincerely looking forward to the day that sea level rise inundates the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport Massachusetts, followed by the rest of Cape Cod. Recall their ongoing opposition to a wind turbine farm on the "pristine ocean horizons" seen from their beachfront homes.

Answer 5

Oh, this IS exciting. I've always admired the Arctic's ice caps, but, you know, they are in for a change. I bet they would look good wearing a Top Hat, instead.

Answer 6

It will not happen with the earth tilted at its present angle.

Answer 7

Yep, then we can dance on the dead polar bears.

Answer 8

We'll never know.