Is the Atlantic going to get smaller and the Pacific bigger?

Question

Because of ice melting?
Global warming?

Answer 1

Myth:
If the polar ice caps melt, the sea level will rise!

Myth Debunked:
When ice melts, the volume of it decreases.
Do your own scientific experiment to prove this.
One way is a reverse experiment. (like cross checking math)
Fill a 2-liter bottle with water and put it in your freezer.
The water expands as it freezes to the point that it will break the bottle open.

*Solid H2O (ice) is less dense than liquid H2O (water). If you don't understand what I mean by "dense", H2O molecules are closer together in liquid form than solid form.

Six water molecules in the solid state can orient themselves to form a regular hexagon. These molecules will form a rigid structure like molecules do in solids. They will bond to each other by hydrogen bonding. However, in the liquid state the molecules will not form a regular, rigid hexagon. They will bond to each other by hydrogen bonding and pack together.

The center of the hexagon has empty space. Water molecules in the solid phase occupy more space. i.e water(liquid) expands when it freezes and can break its container if there is no room available for the frozen water to expand.*

If anything, the heat from global warming will cause higher levels of the evaporation of water which will have an effect of reducing the sea level by putting more water into the air as clouds.

Maybe the next Ice Age will wipe enough humans off of the face of the Earth that the forests will once again replenish themselves.

Answer 2

Some have already mentioned it - continental drift. It is going on today and has done so for millions of years. This is causing America and Europe to get a few centimeters farther apart each year due to the Atlantic plates shifting. It cannot be noticed in a single lifetime. Global warming / ice melting is a potential problem that will increase the size of all oceans. Are we causing it or is it a natural occurrence? Ice Ages and thus, melts, has been a part of Earths history forever. I do believe we need to make adjustments so lessen its effects.

Answer 3

All the oceans and seas will fluctuate in size over time under the influence of natural rainfall, evaporation, and ocean-floor subsidences and elevations, the last of which only seem to affect their sizes. Melting ice-caps could play a small part in ocean sizes if long continued, but climatic forces will tend to average the changes, which can rise and fall over the centuries. As long as the sun shines there will be renewed glaciation and glacial melting from changes in insolition, which is the most prominent cause of heating and cooling of the atmosphere. Global warming is only a temporary phenomenon that has occurred many times during interglacial changes that the world has experienced abundantly since the big-bang period when the universe was first created a few billions of years ago.

Answer 4

Not in our lifetime. Actually the Atlantic is getting larger, spreading, because of lava coming out at the mid-atlantic ridge. Subduction is taking place all around the Pacific rim, but I haven't seen stats on a change in the size of the Pacific.

Answer 5

no the pacific is going to get smaller and the atlantic is going to get bigger b/c of pangea, not global warming

if u look at like maps of millions of years ago everything is moving apart, north america is moving northwest for example

there used to just be one solid mass of continental crust but it got broken apart and started diverging from each other creating the atlantic ocean

hope i helped =]

Answer 6

There is a problem . If the north is what u are talking about . Ice occupies less space than the water after it melts ,so if anything there should be less.

Answer 7

Are you kidding????

The water level of the whole world will rise or fall the same...the Atlantic and the Pacific are connected..........

Answer 8

Don't worry in a few yrs it be something new we be having and ice age or acid rain agin i heard it all in 60 yrs i'm 68 now so this will pass

Answer 9

They will both get larger, water levels higher, due to global warming.

Answer 10

Get real ,there is only one world Ocean ,
the different Oceans is a fantasy of Man
when the water goes up it all goes up