"Waterworld" and global warming?

Question

If the polar ice caps completly melt then will dry land be hard to find? Would the world be like the movie, "Waterworld?"

Answer 1

Waterworld was pure science fiction designed to make money for the producers, nothing more.

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Answer 2

No Waterworld is stupid.
There is a reason why that movie is so lame and to understand why, you need to know the history of the movie.
What happened was Kevin Costner saw the movie Mad Max II, and decided anything Australia can do, Hollywood can do 10 times better.

So he rewrote the script by doing a find and replace on a few words like.
The desert was changed to water.
gasoline was changed to dirt.
scavengers were changed to mutants
The character Humongous was changed to the Duke and given an eye patch instead of a mask.
Flamethrowers were changed to 50 calibre machine guns.
The coastal city was changed into dry land.
Motorbikes were changed into Jet Ski's

also,

The feral boy was changed into a sweet young girl
And Bruce Spence's character, the gyro pilot who was brilliant in Mad Max and completely made the movie with comic relief didn't make it into waterwold at all.

Then the producers throw a $80M budget at the movie and wondered why such an expensive movie could turn out to be so utterly lame.

The scene where Mel Gibson going full throttle down a desert highway in his V8 interceptor doing battle with some psychos on motorbikes over a tank of gasoline, just didn't traslate very well into Kevin Costner sailing around the ocean in a trimaran at full spinnaker doing battle with some guys on jetskis over ... a bag of dirt.

Answer 3

I don't think it will be that serious. However, if the polar ice caps completely melted, the deep sea animals will be extincted after a short period because the shortage of food.The TV once showed that only the ice cold water can keep the smallest sea creature alive to feed the seals or sea lions. If the ice caps melted, the water temperature rises. The polar bears will be extincted sooner or later. Die or relocate to other spots to get food, such as polar bears tried to get foods from the trash can in Churchhill, Manitoba, Canada.

Answer 4

Oh no, just some of the land, near the shores and rivers that sea lvl will rise, but now soo much that all land would comppletly be underwater. But global warming is like a science fiction movie, only that it's real!

Answer 5

If all the ice in the world melted it would raise sea level about 300 feet. Nothing like water world at all. My home town of Austin, Texas would still be 200 feet above sea level. New York city streets would be flooded but the tall buildings would stick up above the surface of the water.

Answer 6

Here's a test you can do at home. Take a glass, fill it half way with ice cubes and then fill it almost to the brim with water. Let the ice melt all the way and see how much water spilled over the glass.
You'll have your answer.

Answer 7

NO - Total loss of ice cover would result in a 200 foot rise in sea level across the globe. Florida would become the new Atlantis and Atlanta would still be just Atlanta with a nice beach front with piers and upscale shopping and titty bars.....lol

Answer 8

It is absolutely loony. Al Gore must have written it. If all the ice melted, which is absurd, it would rise about 200 feet, certainly not 10000 feet or much more like that implied.

Answer 9

no the world will not be like water world.

if the ice melts only land close to the water elevation
it probably would only rise 10-50 feet

Answer 10

The ocean levels today are 30cm lower than they were 165 years ago. This story that the Earth is going to be under water is a Hollywood fantasy, nothing that is based in any scientific fact.