How much is the sea level predicted to rise in the next 50 years? 100 years? 500?

Question

I kinda doubt that last one but it doesn't hurt to ask, I guess. I'm just curious as to the rate at which polar ice is melting/sea level is rising. Is there some sort of equation that scientists are using to predict it? I want to know how long it will take before my province ends up underwater xP

Answer 1

I'm not aware of an equation used to predict the rate of the rising of sea levels. The last ice age ended official about 10,000 years ago. At the peak of the ice age, the sea level was around 400 feet lower than the current level. As the land ice melted, the level rose. We are still coming out of this last age of glaciation, a fact behind the gradually rising of sea levels in our time. I've heard that in 100 years the sea level may be 20 feet higher than it is today. As to what percentage of this trend can be linked to human activity, is open to debate. Some say warming trends in some areas may drive cooling in other areas of the world.

Answer 2

worldwide warming is definitely occurring. yet of course what i think of you're digging at right it is are we the reason. that would desire to be a no a minimum of in terms of being a significant reason. The earth has cycled with the aid of many ice a while and warming sessions of which none we've been in charge for. and to no longer leave out the undeniable fact that our image voltaic gadget is likewise experiencing this comparable phenomenon. So i assume the pollution that we reason right here would desire to be making it with the aid of the image voltaic gadget if this replaced into the case made via those wackos. the actual reason has no longer been desperate yet yet theories have been made that are basically sound yet no longer proved. Now i'm no longer discounting the certainty we could be helping in an extremely very Small way. each little thing is a cycle and long as quickly as we are all lifeless and long gone those cycles will proceed right here in the international properly a minimum of till the solar grow to be a purple sizeable then of course there'll now no longer be a earth because it is going to likely be swallowed up.

Answer 3

well, first, the Arctic ice cap is already afloat, so it doesn't matter to sea level if it melts or not.

The UN Intergovernmental Committee on Climate Change.........or something like that......the recent "this is scientific truth and all who disagree are heretics" report says the WORST case scenario from global warming in 50 years is:

Eight Inches.

No I am not kidding. Read the report, or at least a summary of it.

Same report says worse case temperature rise in 50 years is ONE degree F, but thats another question.

Now, if the East Antarctic Ice Sheet....which sits on top of two known to be active volcanoes.....either melts into the sea or warms up enough to slip off and go splash


then we are looking at 20 to 30 feet and BIG TROUBLE....