Is Global warming really going to melt the icecaps, just like what Al Gore said a year ago?

Question

I'm very scared of what happened during the movie "The Day After Tomorrow" because the water that melted from the icecaps in the north pole went up to the top of the Statue of Liberty.

Answer 1

Zee B

"styrofoam " funny I have seen it and I don't remember that the usual denier claim is, he used computer generated ice from Day after tommorrow, which he did, but only for a pretty fly over shot of the ice edge, the shot is only meant to show what ice looks like and thats all it shows, so what!

I would assume you can't or won't say were the 'styrofoam ' scene is as that would ruin your false statement.

Answer 2

Yep, true, but remember, the ice caps and glaciers have been melting since the last ice age, thousands of years ago, so unless you intend to live for many thousands of years, don't worry.

  And to h**l with Algore !

Answer 3

"The Day After Tomorrow" is a work of fiction While the Arctic is certainly showing signs of melting the Antarctic is different Most of it glaciers are on land not in the sea and the entire continent is surrounded by a sea current and weather pattern that help insulate it a little this is the roughest sea in the world with no landmass to stop it as it goes around Antarctica, while sea ice in Antarctica is statistically about the same a number of large glaciers in recent years have calved off very large burgs. The last one was the equivalent of 1500 years of ice i.e. that is how long the glacier would take to grow back to this level. Unlike 'day after tomorrow' these things take months or years to break off. The Australians have been monitoring one called the 'tooth' a crack that has been widening over the last 5 years which will probably break off in the next few years.

Answer 4

if as much energy as AL gores mansion burns up in one day were to be directed to the icecaps we would have a disaster on our hands.  you may think a little less of him if you research his energy consumption ,and realize how much he lies to line his pockets.

Answer 5

I have not heard of any city complaining on the coast or beaches yelling help, have you

Answer 6

yes a high amount of it has already melted

Answer 7

If you live on the coast.. you have something to worry about...

But if you have any sense.. you will go for higher ground if you notice that water is starting to rise above your head.

Answer 8

I think yes buy lots of people have said that Global warming is not real.

The movie "The Day After Tomorrow" is only a movie meant for excitement.

Answer 9

Mr. Gore was right about many things -- look at his world wide web! He didn't just invent global warming, it is reality.

Answer 10

don't be afraid.  a movie is a movie, a STORY.

Al Bore's movie even used styrofoam as ice and passed it off as documentary.

there's not a whole lot you can do about global warming, as it is a natural cycle.

think of the fact that our planet's plant life is flourishing greatly because it loves co2.  even the amazon rainforest is having a superior growth lately.

also, the climate is cooling.  there is no need for alarm.

Answer 11

to think, we were anticipating an ice age 40 years ago... If you have a piece of ice floating in a bucket of water and like a ft of it goes above the water level, since ice expands with air, when it melts it will most likely be at a lower level then it started. now some ice is on land and that would increase the level, but not much. icecaps melt and reform all the time, Greenland is getting bigger.

How can you take someone who has investments in ethanol and one of the most energy consuming houses ever to actually care about the environment. global warming is going to be great money for scientist and entrepreneurs who know how to work it.

o and its called "climate change" now.

Answer 12

Yes i believe this is true. Readings taken from ice core samples , Show that green house gas's , C02 , and methane , have hit there highest levels in 420,000 years , and our sea ice is also shrinking . Our sea ice has declined 10% in the last 30 years .For 2.5 million years , the earths climate constantley been changing , from our iceages to warmer years , but in the last century our climates temperature has been rising unusually fast , from about 1.3 to 1.5 degrees fareinghnheight .

As our earths climate warms , these ice-packs are melted and broken apart making it harder for the polar bear to find its food. This causes the polar bear to swim great distances , in order to hunt for its next meal . Wildlife conservationists have actually seen polar bears drown because they just could'nt make it to the nearest ice flow .

So Is Global warming really going to melt the icecaps, just like what Al Gore said a year ago?  Absolutly.

Answer 13

Go see for yourself how solid and thick the ice mass is up north.  Talk to people who work in the high Arctic  and I'd be surprised if you didn't change your mind really fast.  During the summer months it doesn't get very warm, and the sun is at such a low angle that it's rays aren't much of a factor.  At lower Arctic lattitudes there is more warming each year and some ice does melt.  That's why some years the Northwest Passage is open for navigation and other years it is sealed in ice so thick an icebreaker can't get through.

There is one Canadian military base up there that remains open all year...it's the world's most northern permanently inhabited settlement.  Other than that by late summer everyone else is gone.  The depths of winter are extremely cold, extremely inhospitable and almost totally dark.  This is far north of even polar bear territory.  To think that this ice cap is going to melt in our lifetime is utter foolishness.  I think Al Gore has other motives for saying it will.

Answer 14

Check out this web site about a glacier in Argentina breaking up (its the middle of winter down there.)

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/p...

If you remember your history, check out the Vikings and their farming colony on Greenland back in around the year 800.  A lot warmer back then.  The interglacial warming period is over, it has generally (key word -- yes there has been short warm spells since) been getting colder except since the industrial age began in earnest in the mid-late 1800's.  Since then its getting warmer faster than any other known warming spell.

Answer 15

Yes and all the beaches will be gone and millions or even billions of people will be displaced.

Answer 16

If the ice cap of Greenland and the ice cap of Antarctica were to melt totally the oceans would rise about 47 feet.  Bad enough but not half way up the Statue of Liberty.

Also, northern Europe could suffer a mini ice age if the fresh water were to act to inhibit the Gulf Stream.  How, exactly this would change world climates is unknown.

Answer 17

Not this year it's not... we're already past 'peak melt'

http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog

Answer 18

First of all, disregard anything you saw in those movies. They are science fiction only (Al's movie is also science fiction).

What those movies failed to tell you:

1. The ice caps have been melting for 15,000 years. Ever since the last ice age, the ice sheets have been receeding. And lucky for us. Otherwise, the earth would be covered by a mile high sheet of ice.

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/i...

2. The current temperature is MUCH more habitable than a cooler climate. The scare mongers are doing nothing more than trying to frighten you. Do not allow them to  do it by lying to you. Which is what they do.

3. The sun controls whether the planet warms or cools. We can do NOTHING about it. Worrying about global warming is similar to worrying about a meteor destroying the planet. Sure it could happen, but the chance is so slim at to be immeasurable.

Answer 19

I'm more worried about volcanic eruptions blocking the sun that creates global cooling.  Or how about the Bruce Willis  movie where he tried to prevent the asteroid from hitting the earth.

There are enough real things in nature to worry about !