How long will it take for global warming to melt the poles?

Question

every one keeps saying that global waming is eventully going to melt antartica and the north pole. then the extra water will flood most of the continets. how long will it take for this to happen?

Answer 1

Actually the ice is increasing in the Antarctic, but you won't hear that on the filtered news networks.

The first casualty of the global warming hoax will be California where they are implementing an Orwellian idea that lets the government control the thermostats in all new homes.

Say good bye to freedom.  It's being chipped away slowly by the left wing socialists.

Answer 2

They wont.  However, glaciers and other sections of earth are.  Look at Glacier National Park in Montana for example.  Or, Greenlands ice.  There is global warming and it doesnt all have to do with us.  Mother nature also is contributing to its affects.  We will just have to adjust when things happen.  If any water levels rise, the states on the edges near the oceans will be submerred sooner.

Answer 3

The Arctic ice floats on sea water, there is no land, so if it melted the sea level rise would be nil.  

The Antarctic ice is 7000ft thick and gets to minus 35 decrees C in summer.  If the ice on Greenland melted the sea level rise would be around six to twenty inches.  

A temperaure rise of a lot more than the actual 0.69 degrees C over the last 150 years would be needed to cause these places to thaw out.

Answer 4

It'll take geologic time for the poles to melt, and global warming won't have anything to do with it.

If you want to melt the Antarctica, you're going to have to wait for continental drift to move it away from the South Pole.

Answer 5

the floating sea ice in the arctic ocean might melt, but the inner ice sheets of greenland and antarctica arent going anywhere.  So you can kiss that 20 foot sea level rise good bye, it will never happen.

Answer 6

Never grasshopper.

Answer 7

Well, today it is 9 degrees outside, so at this rate, a very , very long time.