Poll: If all of the Arctic (North Pole) sea ice melted....

If all sea ice in the North Pole melted the ocean level would rise by...

  • 0 inches

    Votes: 5 41.7%

  • 6 inches

    Votes: 2 16.7%

  • 12 inches (1 ft)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 2 feet

    Votes: 1 8.3%

  • 4 to 6 feet

    Votes: 1 8.3%

  • 12 feet

    Votes: 3 25.0%
  • Total voters
    12
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If all of the sea ice melted up in the North Pole (Arctic) how much would the ocean water rise around the world?
 
None if you're just saying North Pole. Now, South pole! Whew, that would be a hell of a sea level rising! Being that 90% of the worlds ice is located in the South Pole, not the north. North Pole ice is incredibly thin compared to the South Pole. If the South Pole melted, we'd be looking at a 200 feet rise world wide. :D
 
We are having the warmest extended Fall in recorded history up here in Alaska. I have a feeling we will be finding out the real answer sometime in the thirty years.
 
Mewtilation said:
None if you're just saying North Pole. Now, South pole! Whew, that would be a hell of a sea level rising! Being that 90% of the worlds ice is located in the South Pole, not the north. North Pole ice is incredibly thin compared to the South Pole. If the South Pole melted, we'd be looking at a 200 feet rise world wide. :D
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Suppose the Arctic sea ice was 200 ft thick?
 
kokonut said:
Suppose the Arctic sea ice was 200 ft thick?
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Being the North Pole ice is approximately 6 - 10 feet thick in various places, if all that ice were 200 feet thick, we'd experience a few feet of increase in the sea level. If I had to guess I suppose I'd slap a 6 foot-ish water level increase. Just a guess, I'm incredibly tired at the moment ( and a little drunk :giggle: ) But We'd definitely notice a change if the ice was that thick up there. Fortunately the amount of ice is so minor compared to the South pole we wouldn't. :D That's all I'm happy about, and Antarctica ice is in no immediate danger of melting thankfully. :D
 
Mewtilation said:
Being the North Pole ice is approximately 6 - 10 feet thick in various places, if all that ice were 200 feet thick, we'd experience a few feet of increase in the sea level. If I had to guess I suppose I'd slap a 6 foot-ish water level increase. Just a guess, I'm incredibly tired at the moment ( and a little drunk :giggle: ) But We'd definitely notice a change if the ice was that thick up there. Fortunately the amount of ice is so minor compared to the South pole we wouldn't. :D That's all I'm happy about, and Antarctica ice is in no immediate danger of melting thankfully. :D
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LOL It's still 0. You can have all the ice you want, the sea level has already been displaced. Its land ice that that will add to the sea level.
 
femme Fatale said:
LOL It's still 0. You can have all the ice you want, the sea level has already been displaced. Its land ice that that will add to the sea level.[/QUOTE

I was thinking South Pole... Still drunk.... :ugh: Don't judge mah intelligence! :D
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I'm not going to even answer because I don't have the stats to back it up. It makes me wonder if you have an ulterior motive for posting this poll to increase awareness of global warming.
 
It'd go up, but not so much from the ice (water expands when it freezes). For the ice not to be ice, the water has to be warmer than it is now. Warm water is less dense than cold water, so it will take up more volume for the same mass.
 
There should be statistics to compare to already. I have seen massive changes in the amount of sea ice around Alaska in my lifetime. I am curious how the two groups of scientist will work their figures. We have science and then we have science. Just like with the news.
 
goodonya said:
There should be statistics to compare to already. I have seen massive changes in the amount of sea ice around Alaska in my lifetime. I am curious how the two groups of scientist will work their figures. We have science and then we have science. Just like with the news.
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"Figures don't lie, but liars figure." :lol:
 
Mewtilation said:
Being the North Pole ice is approximately 6 - 10 feet thick in various places, if all that ice were 200 feet thick, we'd experience a few feet of increase in the sea level. If I had to guess I suppose I'd slap a 6 foot-ish water level increase. Just a guess, I'm incredibly tired at the moment ( and a little drunk :giggle: ) But We'd definitely notice a change if the ice was that thick up there. Fortunately the amount of ice is so minor compared to the South pole we wouldn't. :D That's all I'm happy about, and Antarctica ice is in no immediate danger of melting thankfully. :D
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Yes, in fact both ice poles are not in danger of melting anytime soon. But the Antarctica ice has seen a 2nd year record expansion.
 
femme Fatale said:
LOL It's still 0. You can have all the ice you want, the sea level has already been displaced. Its land ice that that will add to the sea level.
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You mean the sea ice already displaced the sea water. Exactly right. It's the melting land ice that would contribute to the rise in sea level.
 
goodonya said:
There should be statistics to compare to already. I have seen massive changes in the amount of sea ice around Alaska in my lifetime. I am curious how the two groups of scientist will work their figures. We have science and then we have science. Just like with the news.
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Where in Alaska?

BTW, interesting stats here.

Alaskan Climate History
 
Someone on TVTropes worked out that of all the glaciers everywhere melted, you wouldn't get anywhere near "Waterworld" as seen in the movie. If you did have Waterworld from melting ice, all the seawater would be so diluted it would be drinkable, again unlike the movie.

There is an SF book I keep meaning to read called Fallen Angels, where Earth deals with so-called man made climate change so effectively that we discover anthropogenic warming was actually the only thing holding back an overdue ice age! Whoops! An old Sega game called Outlander had a similar proposition, in that World War 3 disrupts weather patterns and rain ceases, while an ice age starts a drop in sea level away from the desalinisation plants humanity is depending on to maintain agriculture. Double whoops!
 
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