Because of Global Warming and all of the Artics melting? Ah?
2007-06-08 01:24:12 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Seriously, if you don't care, then why post?
2007-06-08 02:19:36 · update #1
It's true, I just want to see comments. I don't need people saying that it's impossible. 'Cause guess what? It's going to happen.
2007-06-08 02:38:32 · update #2
yes that is true.
in just 15 years,
the water WILL rise up 20 feet.
and in a matter of decades,
a lot of land will be underwater.
which totally sucks
dont believe me?
watch the inconvienient truth,
by al gore.
2007-06-08 04:27:36 · answer #1 · answered by rockerferlife 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Even when the Earth was very warm, sea levels rose no more than a few hundred feet.
Coastal flooding will be very bad. A lot of people will have to move. It will cost huge sums of money to replace what we lose. In poor countries with lots of farms near sea level, some people will die of starvation.
But the Earth cannot possibly go completely under water, even if every last bit of ice melts.
2007-06-08 03:25:06 · answer #2 · answered by Bob 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even if all of the ice in the world melted, the sea level would rise about 220 feet. To cover the entire earth you would have to raise the sea level about 29,000 feet (the height of Mt Everest). So don't worry, there will still be land to stand on.
BTW all of Greenland melting is about 20feet, all of Antarctica melting is about 200 feet. All of the arctic melting is 0 feet, since the ice is already floating on the Arctic Ocean. All the rest of the world's glacier would be in the noise of the 2 big ones. They are both estimates anyways. Greenland is melting so fast because when parts of it melts, it exposes dark areas of dirt and rock, which absorb sunlight so it heats up more. Ice/snow reflects light and doesn't heat up as quickly.
2007-06-08 02:25:41 · answer #3 · answered by Ed C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do the ice test. the Arctic is mostly floating so it is very similar to a glass full of ice and bring it up to the rim of the glass with water. Now set back and see how much runs out. Sense Ice has more volume than the water the oceans should go down if all the ice melted.
2007-06-08 03:39:56 · answer #4 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thousands of theories there are Luke. Our ancestors might vacation on tropical Antarctica or go skiing on the island of Kilimanjaro. It is true that the glaciers are melting at a rate not seen in our entire history and we all know the weather is changing. We may need to take leave of this dirtball after a bit and go back to the last place we messed up, Mars.
2007-06-08 01:31:13 · answer #5 · answered by D_S_ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's what I heard from my friends. I can actually predict it myself too! The glaciers are melting continuously and lead to rising of sea level. Once the sea level rises, the water will cover the Earth and the entire Earth will be under water. This is more to logical thinking. I guess you know that too, right? But, i'm not sure when will that actually happen.
2007-06-08 02:04:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it could never be "completely" underwater. Even if all the ice caps melted and the tides were released by the moon's gravitional pull, there still wouldnt be enough water to cover the earth 100%. However, you could kiss the costal cities goodbye, and anything else 300-400 miles inland, if it where to happen.
2007-06-08 02:28:41 · answer #7 · answered by angelofdeath0101 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
so the world is going to go back to the same way as we started? Remember once this world was a lot more water then there is now. Remember too that we have just basically come out of the ice age.so there is going to be lots of changes. maybe what is happening to the world is that it is making a a complete circle. everything happens in trends and this i believe is another trend.
Somebody will probably will blow us up before we have to worry about too much weather change
2007-06-08 05:12:42 · answer #8 · answered by pipki 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
4.5 Ga, and that extensive style hasn't replaced via fact radiometric relationship became stumbled on. And the temperature documents comes from a miles better than one hundred,000 years of documents from ice cores. in accordance to the organic cycles that frequently govern the climate, we could continuously be cooling. we're not. Why is this? it isn't the solar, we've satellites pointed at it. The development of warming interior the ambience suits that of the greenhouse consequence. the quantity of CO2 has long gone up, and that's all via fossil fuels. So we are in charge. it fairly is fairly uncomplicated science, besides the undeniable fact that it fairly is inconvenient for conservatives so they lie. Edit: "13.7 billion supply or take a hundred and ten million years." it fairly is the universe. Earth and the solar are youthful.
2016-11-07 22:50:40 · answer #9 · answered by lanman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the agreed information, not the holywood version, see the UN International pannel on Climate Change http://www.ipcc.ch
the artic is floating sea ice, so it melting won't change the sea level.
Greenland however ...
And the changes won't take 1,000 years to seriously affect human survival - crop failure, water shortage & floods, etc are already happening.
2007-06-08 03:31:44 · answer #10 · answered by fred 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋