2007-08-11 04:05:20 · 6 answers · asked by xvishwas49 1 in Environment ➔ Global Warming
two points in response to a poster:
the Arctic ice cap is already floating on the ocean. It can melt or not....IT WONT affect sea level.
( put water in a glass. add an ice cube. mark the height of the water. go away. come back when the ice is melted.....)
the IPCC WORST CASE scenario is a rise of one foot in sea level.
One foot.
Worst case.
2007-08-13 08:43:20 · answer #1 · answered by yankee_sailor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's no way to protect those islands or Florida for that matter. Even the conservative climate models show that the entire Arctic ice cap will melt in the next hundred years. This means that the ocean level will rise a metre so say goodbye to all the low land areas of the world.
2007-08-11 12:08:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are methods of holding back the sea. The Dutch have done it for centuries. A lot depends on cost benefit analysis. There are areas of south east England where gradual erosion of cliffs is not thought to be worth the cost of defending against it. There will be other examples with the rises in sea level caused by global warming.
Methods include dikes, concrete cast shaped interlocking blocks to dissipate wave energy, groins to keep protective beaches in place.
2007-08-11 11:18:26 · answer #3 · answered by Robert A 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're talking the very low lying islands of the South Pacific, the most cost effective solution is to pay the people there to leave.
Below is an affordable and practical plan to reduce global warming to where we can deal with the remaining effects. One of those will be the loss of those islands.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,481085,00.html
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM040507.pdf
2007-08-11 11:39:43 · answer #4 · answered by Bob 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is quite obvious that due to global warming the sea level has increased due to the melting ice in the antarctics.
the only method to stop is to stop using chlorofloro carbons in the refigeration and perfumes and air conditioners as the oze is depleting further causing a threat to the increased danger of melting the ice on the pole.
stop cutting trees and stop hunting animals and eating non veg.
2007-08-13 19:16:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't worry about it. Abandon island. Abandon island. aaaooogaaaa. aaaooogaaaaa.
2007-08-15 01:57:26 · answer #6 · answered by i_am_the_fig 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋