what are we to do when all our glaciers have melted?

Question

you mean we can go to the moon and beyond and we can't measure their receding dimensions? you seem to be able to measure planet seperation quite well!.........people is someone fibing a little here our what?..........our the well educated and the sientists already know and we can't have a panic i suppose and maybe the planet will go to less land .......inform me please......later bye......our are we ok with out glaciers?....some one's has this answer now i believe........

when you melt a ice cube you have no more water than you had before the melting happened and lots of that ice volume is below the surface so would not only the ice above the surface add to the volume? answers from all please ......thanks

no body has told me how to measure the glacier yet?

Answer 1

The answer(s) to the glaciers melting are not that simple.... but,
1) when all glaciers melt the sea level will be roughly 80 feet higher than what it is now. This means for the larger continents, we will just have less land mass to live on. For the island communities like Indonesia, they will all by under water. Keep in mind this is a very slow process and will not happen even over a few years time, so there is A LOT of time for people to relocate.

2) However, a direct result of the glaciers melting will be a change in the global temperature. Everyone screams global warming (this is happening, but I believe it is a normal diurtion from a geologic standpoint, not necessarily strictly anthropologic is causation.... just slightly athropologic) but what most people don't realize is that while at first the warming trend does cause the glaciers and ice caps to melt, eventually the same processes that warm the atmosphere (i.e. greenhouse gases) will then begin to act as a blanket to cool the earth because the sunlight which provides energy for the earth will be reflected back into space, leaving the Earth to become cooled off again. How long this is going to take, who knows?

3) If you remember back in the early to mid 80s (or maybe you weren't born yet, but just know this happened), there was a scare of another iceage approaching and the people that made that conclusion are the same people saying global warming today and they are using the exact SAME DATA! Don't believe statistics, most of the time they are false because people are paid to say things and it is very easy to manipulate data into telling you what you want it to, not what it truly means.

4) I would be more concerned about the quality of the air you breathe, the water you drink, etc more than the glaciers melting. That is going to take a long time, but simple changes to your lifestyle now can help make the environment better for yourself and your heath.... which will in turn alter the actions all these anthropologic things are doing to contribute to the climate changes.

5) You will be fine without glaciers, your great children will be fine.....

Answer 2

Sea ranges growing to be could be the prompt answer, and for this reason flooding of many low mendacity areas. there's a super variety of co2 interior the ice and if it have been to soften, i think of it exchange into some thing like the comparable quantity of co2 could be launched into the ambience that has been launched interior the previous 10 years? i can't bear in mind the precise statistic, yet i know it exchange into from an Iain Stewart documentary. the upward thrust in co2 ranges interior the ambience might carry approximately a upward thrust fee of international warming which might for this reason improve worldwide temperatures. there have been pesticides that have been banned international years in the past, a lot of which grew to become airborne and have been finally deposited in areas containing glaciers. for this reason, if those have been to soften, those pesticides could be launched returned and ought to reason intense point an infection. a super variety of places interior the international are reliant on consistent flows of water from glaciers to offer electrical energy, and so in the event that they soften without notice, then they might have lost an power source.

Answer 3

Well, it ain't gonna happen next month, so maybe some people are just overreacting? There used to be a story where somebody ran around screaming, "The glaciers are all melting!"

No, wait, that was, "The sky is falling!" Okay, same thing, different book.

Answer 4

is it getting warmer? yes
is the ice melting away? yes
is it cause of global warming? no

the sun has been increasing in temp and size for the past 100 yrs, its still growing. in turn heating up the entire galaxy. the ice on one of Saturn's moons is gone, its now a liquid moon. the ice caps on mars are receding faster than ours on earth are.

what happens when its all melted? well, we are doomed more or less. as that amount of fresh water into the ocean will change the salt content. in turn effecting wild life, coral, the flow of the current, our weather patterns, etc. earth as we know it will be drastically changed. figure 100 miles of all coasts will be lost as well. so any cities there will be under water just like we find ancient stuff under the oceans now.

Answer 5

I think we'll live. If I remember correctly according to my Science teacher if all of Antarctica melted (this is what they currently think) the coast line/sea level would rise about 1-3 feet?

Answer 6

over a mile of ice on the land in antarctica and any ice bobbing ABOVE the sea level will be water added to the sea, so yes, indeed it will raise...I think it will be more like 250 feet of water, so, bye-bye Florida.

Answer 7

Before all the glaciers melt, I would recommend that you move to higher ground.

Answer 8

Oceans will rise and tidal waves will wash away
beaches and homes,cities on the cost will be
flooded and people will die.other tow en's around
lakes will be washed away.Power will be destroyed, and fresh water will be pulatd and blds.burning.
HIGH WAYS will be jammed with people trying to
escape.The government will use radios to tell the
people that they can file for low% loans.

Answer 9

we'll die and drown
we deserve it
we've done nothing but destroy this planet
take it for granted
we're just gonna die
and im fine with that
ive already tried explaining to people
they just laugh me out of the room
we will get our
punishment
either we learn to swim
learn to live in the mountains
or die with the shame of knowing that we
killed oursleves

Answer 10

as the earth moves on its axis we are closer to living in the deserts and migrating to the new shores of the lakes and oceans yet to form i hope its not too soon or dramatic an life doesnt have to begin anew here i personally can swim