Could the extra water caused by global warming cause the globe to change its axis or something??

Question

With added water being free to move about our planet, shorley this will have some affect on the rotation of earth and or the axis of our lovely earth.

Answer 1

No.  The "extra" water has always been here.  If anything the water moving into it's liquid state would weigh less.   Besides, the worst it could do is flood the Earth and really make it the Blue Planet.

Answer 2

Umm....

no.

There would be the same amount of water on earth.  So....No, it wouldn't.

Plus thats not going to happen.  Global warming is an idea made up to make money and to take control of the people.

Answer 3

No. GW won't create any water. It will change some from solid to liquid and some liquid to gaseous and will relocate some but that's it. And the weight is negligible compared to the mass of the Earth. (Oh, OK, d/dx... is right, due to conservation of angular momentum, moving water from the poles to the equator will have a very miniscule impact).

But there's some interesting answers already:

"water moving into it's liquid state would weigh less" - really? Well, there goes the law of conservation of mass (unless ice turning to water involves thermonuclear reactions...)

"the worst it could do is flood the Earth" - nope, the worst it could do is raise sea levels by 80m - lots of land higher than that

Answer 4

The total amount of water is the same, but its distribution can be altered by global warming.  Specifically, mass moves from the poles to lower latitudes and this must slightly increase the moments of inertia of the earth.  Since angular momentum is conserved, the rotation of the earth will slow and days will be longer.  The effect is rather small, a few milliseconds, but easily measured.

Answer 5

no.  

Answer 6

There won't be any added water, just solid water turned into liquid water (that'll flood a lot of coastal areas but it won't move the Earth).

Besides, the Earth is pretty d**n heavy, it'd take a lot to change its axis.

Answer 7

In truth it is the huge off center ice pack on Greenland that is responsible for the world eccentric rotation. This is why it wobbles like a slow turning top. Losing ice pack on Greenland would actually be a good thing because it would make the earth’s rotation more stable.

Answer 8

yes! and it will kill us ALL by drought!!