Are we saying good bye to Antarctica?

Question

have you heard about the collapsing ice shelf? was this a possibility from global warming? most likely, right? so if it's changing the climate there, doesn't that mean it's getting warmer? if it happens numerous times...then there could be a possibility that we will say good bye to Antarctica. what do you think????

Answer 1

WAKE UP! Did it ever occur to you that we have not been able to monitor the weather in general for a long enough period to what is "normal". Let alone at Antarctic. Most recent data shows the warming trend reversing it self.

Answer 2

If you read the same article I did, then it mentions that ice level on the peninsula haven't been this low in several hundred years, but also states that it is proof of global warming. That makes it a bit contradictory don't you think? If it has happened before and more recently than 1000 years ago, does that not make it a natural although unusual event. It sounds more like a localized phenomenon and proves global warming no more than a cold winter in the mid west disproves it.

Answer 3

I think there is a landmass underneath maybe 25% of all that ice down there that will still be antarctica when the ice is gone.

Answer 4

Yes so please go there and bring me back a polar bear, penguin, walrus, or whatever animal you can find. So I have a souvenir to remember it.

Answer 5

they will have to change the map in a few years

Answer 6

This is typical of the 'science' of global warming.  You point to a process that has been going on for billions of years and say is this caused by global warming?

We've seen much bigger chunks of ice break off in the past and nobody has said anything because it is a natural process.  Back in 1998 every walmist was trying to grab a headline about how it was the hottest year on record.  It's different now because we've had 10 years of cooling and the walmists don't want to talk about temperature anymore.

Answer 7

It is unlikely that we will "say good bye to Antarctica" any time soon. As you can see from this link, large portions of the Antarctic have gotten larger, and colder:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroo...

Answer 8

No. And, I'll pay you 1 million dollars if YOU can link and prove this is the cause of man-made global warming.

Answer 9

Fred B the Arctic has no Glaciers except for places like Greenland  and Northern Russia & Europe the north pole as such is only at its thickest point 5-6 meters thick, sea ice. Antarctica has many huge Glaciers and its core is land, covered almost entirely by ice kilometers thick.

Its largest Glacier has as much ice as all of Greenland, if just half this one Glacier melted that would be a 5 foot sea rise.

Answer 10

Warming will not remove the land mass, the mountains of Antarctica.

Right now Antarctica is receiving very heavy levels of snow fall as well as melting of ocean ice and shore glaciers. The net effect is still more ice building up on Antarctica.

But as snow is lifted from the oceans and deposited on Antarctica, the heat of evaporation is going with the moisture, it is released over Antarctica when the snow falls.

Ultimately this process will cause the coastal precipitation to change to rain.

Only when we see most coastal precipitation fall as rain will we see major changes to Antarctica, or rising sea levels.

Answer 11

Maybe it will be hello Atlantis

Answer 12

due to global warming ,the temperature increases and the ice shelves collapse.But Antarctica doesn't destroy since there is land.........

Answer 13

Antarctica is a land mass so it won't disappear but if global warming continues its temperature will increase. The North Pole is made up of sheets of ice and glaciers so this may be fading away due to temperature increases

Answer 14

No, Antarctica is a continent made of land, not a series of ice shelves.

Answer 15

See everyone look what Al Gore did if a little piece of ice melts people go crazy and blame it on "global Warming". He probably gets a nickel every time someone mentions it.

Answer 16

A small part of Antarctica is warming up (the one Al Gore mentions in his film)  the rest of the continent is experiencing a cooling trend.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroo...