If 30% of all polar ice has already melted due to global warming how much time do we have left before yet?

Question

another coastal city vanishes into the ocean?

The link is MSN front page picture.(But I'm sure not put there to alarm anyone)

http://sympatico.msn.ca/?lang=en-CA

Answer 1

You can't calculate that unless you know how many years it took to melt that 30%.

Answer 2

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HELLO

I am S.Riya Subbu. I want to save our Earth with your help.

We are living under the control of Pancha Bhoot ( Water,Air,Fire,Earth, Universe).

Now frequently Earth Quake/Tsunami/Typhoon  is coming  all over World and destroying all Human beings/Livelihood/House/Building/Bridges... Stock  within a second. Also now days Global Warming is going on Alarmingly. Excess Rain/Flood destrying our Life.

Recently Canada  also face Earth Quake Problem. In Indonesia also facing Earth Quake Problem  frequently.

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4.Gas ( LPG & CNG).

5.White Papper/News Paper

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Answer 3

Much more than 30% has melted.

During the last great ice age the polar ice caps reached into the central great plains, most of what is now Europe, Russia, Siberia and, of course, all of Canada.

Answer 4

Given current rates of melting trends, we have perhaps 10 years beforewe reach a "point of no return/"  

If we are lucky.  It is difficult to know for sure, given the extent of the censorship of scientists and falsification of findings  being carried out by the Bush administration.

Answer 5

Funny, that story doesn't mention Venice as disappearing because of global warming.  It says the teutonic plate that Italy is on is sliding down...

Try the truth for once ok?

Mars is heating up, that must be because of martian non-green consumption...

Answer 6

Global warming..or natural occurance...here's a new story.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080120/sc_...

Answer 7

Good thing you brought this question up.

AGW is a hoax, but I was always suspicious of 60 minutes, so now I know they lie just like Al Gore does.  But since it's CBS, I guess I should've known.

CBS is the home of made up news and forged papers as well as fake stories.  Anyone still listening to them are sadly uninformed and misinformed.

Answer 8

Cannot find your link.

Answer 9

The polar ice is not a concern, as far as rising sea level.  Since the ice is already floating, it's melting won't raise the sea (like melting ice cubes in a glass of water).  The warming ocean and associated expansion (warm water takes up more volume than cold water), plus the melting of land-based glaciers is what will cause the sea level to rise.

dpj5 - so your "explanation" for the warming this century (more rapid in the north than the south) is a volcano (under Antarctica, you do know where that is I assume) that erupted 2000 years ago?  That's got to be the most bizzare attempt to explain away AGW that I've ever heard from any doubter.  Congratulations.

Answer 10

It has happened much faster than expected, so now scientists are not very sure of how long these things will take right now.

Answer 11

A very good question, and one with an open answer!  We have been able to interpret from satellite and other weather data that we are losing a dangerous level of th polar ice caps.  Also, we have seen a definitive negative effect on the o-zone layer, which protects the earth from too much solar heat, from the use of green house gas producing chemicals.  The nerve racking side of the story id that we do not have  even one o-zone/ polar ice cycle of data to use as a control point,  We have been able to tell through research that the rampant use of products that destroy o-zone has a global warming effect, but we do not have any information on how much of this phenomenon is a natural Earth cycle.,  Our largest hope is to do the best as a human civilization as we can to reduce our impact and study the global climate trend to determine an impact and feasible solution in the future.  Your question is a great one with a global concern!

Answer 12

Most people who say that global warming is not real are not well informed. Others are just scared because this is a big issue that will require a drastic change in our daily lives wich most people are afraid to make.

Do some research and decide for yourself.        :)

Answer 13

Global Warming is a lie.

Answer 14

I just watched 60 Minutes and as it so happens, they had a report on global warming.  According to that report are the polar bears getting skinnier and do not reproduce as they should because of breaks in the ice.  In addition to that, a guy named Hanson was interviewed by 60 minutes, because he made the statement that we have to restrict the emission of all those gasses within 10 years or it will be too late.  He also explained how the Bush administration actually edits scientific reports on global warming to make them look less threatening.

According to scientific research do we have to do something or within one century the eternal ice is gone and we will be drowning in water.

Answer 15

do you really think it is global warming? i think that every so many thousands of years the earth shift it's poles therefore the change in weather, in my opinion it is a naturally occuring phenomenom, that the politician put to much focus on to make more money at the expense of inexperience people like us, that of course is my opinion.

Answer 16

"Global warming is a hoax and money-sucking scheme made to vacuum money out of rich industrialized nations"

- Stephen Harper, Conservative Prime Minister of Canada 2006-