hmmm, what a bummer
wonder if that will have any effect on global sea levels?

Kyp

The other day, in study hall, i farted really loud, you know...so the guys would laugh...and i swear it was so hanus that Susie Johnson almost ralphed up her salsbury steak.
it was freakin sweet...

People forget that when water freezes, it expands. So that when it melts, the reverse happens. All the ice in antarica would probelly only add 1/2 inch to all the worlds oceans. Instead of like the movie, Waterworld.

Finalday

Until that final day. /Keith Green\ (1953-1983)

anybody remember those insane plans the Soviets had for reversing the flow of those huge rivers that empty into the Arctic, like the Ob? the idea was to use them for irrigating Central Asian steppe, but if they'd managed to do it it would have been an ecological disaster.

also while I think about it, there was a book, a thriller, written donkeys years ago called Ice? (i think) about a huge Antarctic ice shelf that broke off and started floating around the worlds oceans, causing local environmental mayhem cos it was so dam big. Not a bad story but went a bit too far when the US Navy tried to nuke it, failed, and it floated to New York (like as if)

You realize if there was global warming the waer level would lower?

"Xenos, the breakfast of champions" -YowuLing

because of more watervapor in the atmosphere?
probably not enough to make any noticable chance in sea level. the atphoshpere can only hold so much...

Kyp

The other day, in study hall, i farted really loud, you know...so the guys would laugh...and i swear it was so hanus that Susie Johnson almost ralphed up her salsbury steak.
it was freakin sweet...

Global warming would cause water levels to rise. Mainly because the atmosphere would reach an equiplibrium (so it would start falling back to earth as rain as quick as it was taken up), furthermore - all the snow/ice ABOVE the water line (like a mile high of ice for a few thousand miles in parts) across the ice/snow covererd parts of the whole world, not just the ice caps, WOULD cause some sea level rise.......not sure how much - but it WOULD happen.

Also - there once was an iceberg several miles across that drifted (from the antarctic to near the UK i think it was (cannot remember - but it was a long flipping way).

However- seeing as the earth went through many many ice ages followed by thaws etc, and we weren't around poluting the atmosphere, i think that (as usual) the world is saying we are horrifically destroying everything, and that this would never occur naturally. We might speed it up (possibly at a large rate), but its gonna happen eventually.........

i had to watch these dumb things in fifth and sixth grade....
one was on volcanoes
and the other was about the greenhouse effect

the greenhouse effect causes global warming right?
and the volcanoes make the temperature drop when they erupt....
so wouldnt it all even out?


this is my world; it goes round and round and round
The wolfy types like a cow

@Wolfy,

Well. If global warming caused volacanos to erupt, you might have a point. But those two phenomena are not predicted nor expected to occur at the same time.

The question is not whether there is a general trend toward warmer temperatures around the world. The question on which not everyone is in agreement is whether human activity is the sole cause of it or an aggravating cause of it.