Polar ice caps to have melted by 2020...
By emisle
@emisle (3822)
Ireland
May 6, 2007 6:19pm CST
I was watching a news report and an item came up about global warming. Supposedly the ice caps are melting 30 years ahead of what was predicted and now they are on target to have fully melted by 2020....I was really hoping not to be around when all the chaos hit, and in Ireland my county recored our warmest April ever and we're on course for our warmest summer ever too.
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@PsychoDude (2013)
• Netherlands
7 May 07
But no worries, if the polar caps melt in Ireland you will most likely get temperature drops of an average of around 20~30 degrees ;). Good bye to the warm summers.
Not much we can do to stop it from happening anyways, by stopping with emitting all what we do we can only push it forward to a later time but we cannot do that because we need our cars and such to keep economy running. Quick plans will have to be made for safety procedures though to get through when it will hit.
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@Idlewild (6090)
• United States
7 May 07
I've heard that some diseases that affect tropical/southern climates are now being seen in northern Europe, which of course has no experience in dealing with them; thepeople have not built up any immunity to them. I can't imagine how hot it will getin the future in southern Europe and the southern U.S.
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@gifana (4833)
• Portugal
9 May 07
We have had some real weird weather here in Portugal too. Yesterday was cool and I needed a jacket ... today it was warm and I didn't even need a sweater this evening when I took the dog out. We had a relatively cool winter as well as a cool spring.
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@gifana (4833)
• Portugal
9 May 07
I have seen this quite a few times in news sites. I still can't get too upset about this, however. I learned in school that a glass of what with lots of ice will not overflow when the ice melts because the water displaces the ice. Ergo... when an iceberg melts why should the level of the water rise?
Actually, I would think that the scientists would know this and if they do then my theory is incomplete. Oh well, I am still not going to worry....I'm too old and I got other things that are more important to think about. +
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@rebelann (113173)
• El Paso, Texas
4 Oct 20
You're forgetting that the icebergs stretch high up into the air and as that part melts it's causing the sea levels to rise.
@gifana (4833)
• Portugal
9 May 07
I have seen this quite a few times. I still can't get too upset about this, however. I learned in school that a glass of what with lots of ice will not overflow when the ice melts because the water displaces the ice. Ergo... when an iceberg melts why should the level of the water rise?
Actually, I would think that the scientists would know this and if they do then my theory is incomplete. Oh well, I am still not going to worry....I'm too old and I got other things that are more important to think about. +
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
7 May 07
Where I ive in Georgia it is the worst drought in 50 years. We have had wildfires burning for three week. You can see and smell the smoke. We were forcasted to have heavy rain today and we only had one little shower. Now there is none frcasted for another 10 days. We had temperatures in April of 89F and Friday was 90F. It is horrible!
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