When the ice in antarctica will melt, would the world will be cold or will become hotter??

Question

I should know.. With that hot sun! Ozone layer vanished?? Cold or Hot!!?

Answer 1

It melts because the world becomes hotter, not the world becomes colder because the ice melts.

Imagine if you put an ice cube in water, the ice melts and the water cools down. However, polar ice caps are like ice cubes that have been in the water already for a long time. It's not the same as adding an ice cube.

As the world heats up, the water gets warmer, more ice melts, preventing the water average water temperature from going up as much. So the ice caps do help a bit with global warming at the expense of water levels rising. However, having less ice means less white surface so more of the sun's rays will be absorbed by the earth, slightly increasing the rate of global warming.

Answer 2

Excuse me if I refuse to worry about something that isn't going to happen. You see in the 1960's the world was coming to an end in the 1990's due to overpopulation. It didn't. Then, in the 1970's our industries were causing global cooling and a new Ice Age was coming. It didn't. Then in the 1980's there was a huge hole in the Ozone that was being caused by our industries and we were all going to burn up and die from solar radiation. We didn't. Now the new crisis du jour is Global Warming. The whole world will be covered with water in 200 to 500 years. Look, the only thing you should believe is that the people that love to blame Capitalism for destroying the world have realized that they should move their end of the world predictions out to long after they are gone so when it doesn't happen, no one will see how stupid they were. Do you have any idea how radically different technology will be in 100 years? Look at how different life is in 2007 compared to 1967. That is only 50 years. Wither or not there is a global warming trend is the least important thing anyone should be concerned about. We are humans. We are adaptable and able to handle any change that comes our way no matter what is causing it. There is a threat to the world. It is radical Islam. Do not allow anything else to take your attention away from that. That threat is much more likely to negatively impact your life. Be concerned about these crazy people aquiring nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. Not global warming.

Answer 3

I think the arctic will generate more water than the antarctic. But it is a good question - the influx of cold sweet water will disturb the establish pattern of hot and cold streams in the oceans. For the norther hemisphere I think it somewhat an agreed truth that the cold water will stop the gulf-stream of running and through this substantially cool down norther Europe and Scandinavia. I guess that some new flows will be established - but I do not have the background to figure out wich ones. And that also things will happen in the south. In any case: there will be some serious flooding and changes in climate on many locations.

Answer 4

WOW... Lots of misinformation in these answers. The world is not getting hotter because the ozone layer has a hole in it.

And the ice in Antarctica (South Pole) is not melting, it is actually growing. The ice in the Arctic Sea (North Pole) is melting. The melting is caused by dynamical forcings from wind and ocean currents related to local climate, not thermal forcings related to global climate. Read the research by the scientist who studied it.
http://www.cpom.org/research/swl-nature.pdf

Answer 5

According to lecture Al Gore gave in his movie "The inconvenient truth" temperature will only rise about 2 degrees Celsius on equator, but at the same time ( that is in 50 years time ) the temperature in the polar regions will rise about 12 degrees Celsius...Ozone layer does not have any impact on the rise of temperature, it's another issue altogether, which has been party solved by convention which was signed by all industrial countries including the USA...One of the major issues are regular ocean currents; they will change, if not stop and that will cause ever more hurricanes and other weather disasters like infamous "Cathrine", while in other parts of the globe drought will kill millions of people !

Answer 6

hotter and i can prove it (inless an valcano or some other unknow factor)
ok u have a
glass or ice water right
fell it and see how coald it is(u can use a termonitor)
when the ice melts fell it
it was hotter the second time
the reson is it takes more heat to melt the ice than it dose to keep it melited and once it melts it also melts the rest of the ice so it keeps melting ice and it dose it faster and faster so the temp will rise
remimber the heat will contue to be there (from the sun)and the water is hoter than ice (of core y do u put ice in your water to cool it down )so there for once it melts the temp will rise
(along with more natral disastr posen from bugs ect.)

Answer 7

There is a theory that, as a consequence of the melting of the ice caps, the ocean currents will cease or move.

If the currents stop, then they will no longer transfer heat around the globe, leading to the poles starting to cool down again and instigating a new Ice Age.

So, although you'd think that melting ice caps means it will be nice and warm, it could be that it would lead to another ice age.

Answer 8

there is no way to tell for certain.

the obvious choice is warmer right? warm weather causes the melting of snow and ice.

but some scientists claim it may not be quite so simple. they claim that if the salinity of the oceans changes too much then the worlds ocean currents could change dramatically. if this happens, they claim, then the atlantic conveyor (current) could stop altogether triggering chaotic weather systems possibly leading to an ice age. my understanding is it also depends on how fast fresh water is introduced to the ocean currents. faster = higher chance of an ice age. slower = lower chance.

the bottom line is that our climate is incredibly complex and anyone who claims to 'know' what will happen is lying. we know very little and can only speculate how things will turn out.

Answer 9

well im no expert (serioulsy im not!! lol)
but here's wat i think
if/when the ice melts, the waters of the world will get colder becuase of all this new cold freshwater
So waters are colder
and the temperature will rise because of the vanishing ozone layer...
and see, the ice is melting cuz of the rising temperatures
and temps are rising cuz of dissapearing ozone layer
and that's vanishing cuz of...a bunch of other reasons
at this rate, we won't be around to find out wat's gonna happen in the end...

Answer 10

Probably hotter but there is no sure answer since global climate change has so many variables. For example, ocean currents...volcanic activity that could throw us into an ice age. There is no pat answer. The truth is that life will change significantly on the planet or humans will not survive.