The whole world might flood from all the extra water that the ice melted into. I guess you might drown even if you stood on the top of a tall hill. Thinking of Antarctica as a humongous block of ice that melts and floods the world. You migh...
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There is a significant amount of ice covering Greenland, which would add another 7 meters (20 feet) to the oceans if it melted. Because Greenland is closer to the equator than Antarctica, the temperatures there are higher, so the ice is more likely to melt.
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www.howstuffworks.com/question473.htm
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Q: What would happen if Antarctica's ice sheets melted? ... A: If all of the ice in Antarctica melted it would cause all of the world's oceans to rise by about 200 feet. This would flood cities near the coast all over the world and many chains of islands and large areas of continents would be covered by water.
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www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/askjack/aicefaq.htm
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What would happen to the world's coastlines if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet melted, raising global sea levels by as much as 20 feet? Some scientists say a collapse is inevitable, possibly even imminent. Click on the images below to get a ... Stories in the Ice | Antarctic Almanac | Water World | Live and Breathe Antarctica;
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Living on Earth's special Antarctica Series ... ENGLEHARdT: And that could happen in a short time span like 50, 100 years, maybe 500 years. This we don't know exactly. ... FITZPATRICK: Other scientists, though, have uncovered evidence that East Antarctica has melted as recently as 3 million years ago.
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www.loe.org/series/antarctica/isglobal.htm
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A team of NASA and university scientists has found clear evidence that extensive areas of snow melted in west Antarctica in January 2005 in response to warm temperatures. ... Snowmelt In Antarctica Creeping Inland, ... "Water from melted snow can penetrate into ice sheets through cracks and narrow, tubular glacial shafts...
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www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070515152520.htm
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Please state here what your Blog is all about ... A research team at Johnson Space Centre in Houston has been re-examining a meteorite that hit Antarctica 13,000 years ago, and found the most compelling evidence yet that the planet once harboured bacterial life.
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"Wilkins is the largest ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula yet to be threatened. I didn't expect to see things happen this quickly. The ice shelf is hanging by a thread – we'll know in the ... The breakout is the latest drama in a region of Antarctica that has experienced unprecedented warming over the last 50 years.
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www.antarctica.ac.uk/press/press_releases/press_release.php?id=376
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