Global Warming Question?????????

Question

*PLEASE ANSWER BOTH*

1. When the Polar Icecaps melt what states would it effect I live in Richmond,Virginia would it drown because Virginia is by the Atlantic Ocean?

2.Also What would happen besides some States and Cities drowning what would happen to the weather,climate etc?

Answer 1

1. I don't think there could be an exeption for any place on land. For a fact, the whole land on earth is not a big as the pacific ocean, so when the water will rise it might rise rapidly.

2. Most certainly, after the water melting, because the ozone layer will no longer be there, the earth will dry up. Sun's ultraviolet rays will reach the earth suface and there will be no water on the surface.

Answer 2

So the ice caps are melting, its nothing to worry about.  Global warming is just a sudden period of time of solar change.

Answer 3

1. Nothing will be affected, and you know what the polar bears wont go extint they are actually growing in population now that they have more water to go through and catch fish in.

2. And the climate will go back to normal, we only have 100 years of records of our climate who's to say this same stuff didn't happen 500 years ago? and another thing for ya, all of those weather sensors that were apart of the soviet union were removed from the list. And isn't Russia a really cool place? i think so. their were 10,000 sensors by the way that were removed after Russia became free.

Answer 4

Probably nothing since the seas will rise only a few inches.  

The ice caps may be melting-- as they have been for millions of years.  But data suggests they are actually thicker now that a few years ago.

Also, the ice caps and ice bergs sit some 70 percent of their bulk below the water, so all that water we're worried about has already been displaced.  The rest of the world's seas, inland waterways, and rivers and even the Great Lakes which are down about 30 inches will take up the slack.  So even if, and this is unlikely, the polar ice caps melt, those living on the coastlines won't notice it.

They say we are running out of water, so where did it go?  Now we don't want it.  Which is it?

Answer 5

I don't know what exact states in the USA would be affected, aside from Florida and Cali of course, but you'd have time to book it, don't worry.

The ice on both poles of our planet has two jobs. One, it cools down the water in the North and South; that water is circulated by currents towards the equator and back. Think of it like a bathtub that has hot water in it, then you add cold and swish your hand back and forth so that the whole tub becomes the same temperature. So if the cold water isn't added, all the water stays hot.

Animals that live in cold water would die. Bye-bye tuna sandwiches, penguins and polar bears.

The other thing it does is act like a mirror towards space. The sun's rays come in and hit the earth, and the ice reflects it back out to space. So such-and-such a percent (sorry I'm no scientist!) of the suns heat doesn't stay in our atmosphere because the ice reflects it back out.

Like those metallic shields you put in your car window in the summer to keep the leather from melting.

So melt the ice, remove the shield, the earth gets hotter than a Cadillac in July.

So now the species that need a certain 'coolness' to the climate to live, well now they get killed off.

Humans are such a species.

Answer 6

1.  That is a really big if. not when.  If they did melt, it would raise sea levels a few hundred feet.  At the warmest point of the last interglobal warming about 140,000 years ago, the oceans were about 150 feet higher.  It would be very bad for some places in Florida and near the coast but others would have new beach front properties.  There would obviously also be more land that used to be under ice.  Don't expect that any time this millennium.

2.  They can't predict the number of hurricanes in a season so there is no reason to suspect that they could predict the effects on climate.

Answer 7

I am not sure what states would drown FIRST but I do know that many low lying countries will drown possibilily in the next 50 to 100 years. Bangladesh is one. It has the countries on the film An Inconvenient Truth.

Q2. Besides the drowing of countries there will be:

-death of animals possibiliy extinction

-cost of living will heighten as eg. food will become scarce.

-weather will be in the 40 degrees everyday.

-Apparently if climate change is not  delt with NOW it will cost the world $9 trillion to fix and even then it will be hard to fix.

That is why everyone should start doing soomething about it before it is too late. Our children to deserve the same world as us and our parents and grandparents.

Hope I helped. :)

PS. You can't say global warming any more it is known as climate change.