What happens if the glaciers melt in the south pole? Will that be the end of the world as we know it? Explain.
ShawnFromNYC asked:
Will the oceans rise? Will cities be sunk and destroyed? Will shipping routes change? Will the world economy collapse? Will oil shortages occur? Will medical supplies be undeliverable?
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Will the oceans rise? Will cities be sunk and destroyed? Will shipping routes change? Will the world economy collapse? Will oil shortages occur? Will medical supplies be undeliverable?
March 7th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
haha! I think that humans are fairly resilient. Here’s the thing, the world is in a constant flux- so if you ask some older people about the world when they grew up in, it will most likely be very different from the world that we know today. We will still find ways for things to work.
March 9th, 2009 at 11:15 am
A few theories explain that it is not the end of the world, but it will be the end of civilization and probably of the human kind.
Ice melting will cause unbalance of Earth surface weigh forced by Sun gravity toward Earth. It would make that geographic poles (north -south axis) will move probably through Pacific-Indic area.
Poles axis would be closer to Hawaii and America west coast -South Africa. NE USA and West Europe would become more tropical, among other effects.
Not a theory but a fact that is happening already is that poorly developed species (for example bacteria) will evolve (mutations), grow and probably kill easier to bigger and more developed species (such as humans). Because different behaviours of K and r species under changing agressive conditions.
March 12th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
To answer your questions:
1) yes
2) yes
3) Maybe
4) Probably not
5) Not anymore than currently
6) No more than now
How bad 1 and 2 will be will depend on how much of the Antarctic ice cap melts. But it will not happen all at once, but instead gradually over time so we will have time to adapt.