some say never some say 50 to 100 years idk
2007-07-04 06:58:19 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Never..
Worst case scenario is that sea levels rise 10 or 20 feet.. most land masses are hundreds of feet above sea level (the great lakes are 600 feet above sea level). At most sea-side locations and islands will be underwater.. (although I have seen a projection that much of Florida will be flooded)
2007-07-04 07:05:51 · answer #1 · answered by Attorney 5 · 10⤊ 1⤋
First of all, it will never flood the entire world---only the coastline and places like this, which will be very bad, because there are millions and millions of people living there. Ex---Manhatten, Parts of CA, Florida, Coast of China(where a majority of pop lives).
Also its not only floods that you should be worried about, but the heat waves, severe storms, which are getting worse and worse, the loss of biodiversity which means ecological problems which means it will affect our food chain in one way or another, glacial earthquakes, and the over population which the main cause of global warming.
2007-07-04 12:33:36 · answer #2 · answered by noner 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most likely this type of situation won't occur for hundreds and hundreds of years, if ever. Though the speed of melting ice glaciers is rapidly increasing in our day of age there is no way that the glaciers could melt to that extremity and flood the entire earth. If anything only a good portion will be flooded and there will still be a couple small masses of land left.
2007-07-04 08:17:47 · answer #3 · answered by Breonna S 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The entire world will never be flooded.
The Greenland Ice Sheet may melt and increase sea levels 23 feet sometime this century. The Antarctic ice sheets may do the same and raise sea levels a further 60 feet sometime next century.
2007-07-04 10:00:56 · answer #4 · answered by Dana1981 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Never. Even if all of the land base ice caps melt, seal levels will only rise by about 20 meters, hardly sufficient to flood the world.
2007-07-04 11:30:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The IPCC's latest report says 8 - 24 inches after 100 years. And this is from the "consensus"...skeptics think considerably less, if any. Scientists calculate that at the current rate of heating it will take over a thousand years to melt Greenland and Antartica, and even then that will not be enough ice to flood the world.
2007-07-04 08:42:44 · answer #6 · answered by 3DM 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The amount of melt at the far north and far south will not flood our planet. It will displace millions of people living by the ocean. The Climate Change caused by Global Warming will lead to erratic weather all over.
Hey, how'd Noah get in here? Hi, Noah.
2007-07-04 07:52:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
IT NEVER WILL
only lowest areas. imagine enough water to rise to the 5oth floor of the sears towers in Chicago and that is a sea level rise of maybe 1500 feet (rouigh guess)
No-one is projecting that but even if it did happen we still have all the mountains at tens of thousands of feet. there just isnt enough water on the planet
2007-07-05 11:02:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It will never happen because as additional water vapor is added into the air, Antarctica's ice sheet will grow. So even if Greenland and Iceland melt, Antarctica's increased ice mass would compensate.
If you don't believe I've added a source.
2007-07-04 10:24:01 · answer #9 · answered by D H 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Never. If antarctica melts, the world might look like this: I think I read the melting would take 1000 years.
2007-07-05 04:27:43 · answer #10 · answered by gymnastics_twisters 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋