What would happen to the rotation of the earth if the ice caps at the North and South poles melt and the...?

Question

resultant water flows towards the equator?

Answer 1

well one thing is or certain; the earth will flood out because of the melted ice. Then after that, nothing esle really matter because we will no longer be here

Answer 2

If all the ice melted, the Earth would slow down a tiny bit -- maybe by 1/10 of a second.  That is, instead of a day being 24 hours, it would be 24 hours and 0.1 seconds.  Over a period of a year, that would add up to 36.5 seconds.  Sure would mess up a lot of clocks.

Answer 3

I've never done the calculation.  The mass involved is relatively small compared to the earth, so while an effect is to be expected, the size of the effect should not be important except in detail.  The distribution of the continents has a much greater impact.