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Question

i heard at the beginning of time that everything was tropical no ice whatsoever including anartica so if polar ice caps are melting and water evaporates how is global warming going to flood the earth

Answer 1

The beginning of time was directly after the big bang. The earth hadn't even formed yet.

Answer 2

When Antartica got lodged in the South Pole, ice caps that formed on and around it lowered the sea level by 150 feet, turning the Mediterranean Sea into a salt bed. Several million years ago, some of these ice melted raising again the sea level. Then, the ice caps formed again, this time also on the newly formed arctic sea, lowering the sea level again. So, when all these ice caps melt again due to global warming, it will definitely flood most of our cities and agricultural areas.

Answer 3

Haven't you ever seen the movie Waterworld????

Of course it can flood the Earth.  What about The Day After Tomorrow, or An Inconvenient Truth?  There are a lot of people here that seem to place a lot of faith in movies, so it must be true, right?

Look at this map of potential sea level rise.  It shows what can happen if the sea rose as much as 14 meters.  Most dire predictions max out at 2 meters.  Even if the sea level were to rise 7 meters, the resulting change in shore line is negligible.  In other worlds, the shoreline barely changes at all.

Answer 4

The rate at which water evaporates is not fast enough and either way the moisture comes straight back down after it condenses and it rains, so worst case scenario: We're doomed. And while everything was tropical, several factors that manipulate the Earth such as Hurricanes, Earthquakes, etc. change climates including Sun conditions over the past trillion years :)

Answer 5

The coastlines were vastly different back then.

Global warming won't "flood the earth" but it will wreak havoc on our coastal cities.

Answer 6

When Water evaporates, it will comes down as rain and create monsoon, storm and flood.