OK, so answer the first one for yourself? What do you think would be the impact of ice caps melting? Lets see your answer.
>>OK, so answer the first one for yourself? What do you think would be the impact of ice caps melting? Lets see your answer.<<
Well, assuming the sun has not changed from it’s current cyclical state and the earth and it’s orbit has not changed:
If someone was to heat the ground under both caps to the point that they completely melted, there would be incredible flooding and a significantly greater water area on our planet. This would lead to MUCH greater precipitation and LOTS of snow on the caps.
And now a question for you:
What do you think would be the impact of a five foot meteor hitting your house? Let’s see your answer.
But more importantly, what part of your current resources (time, money, intellectual) should you spend on mitigating the risk?
Do you realize that if a catastrophic warming (massive geological upheaval) were to happen it would STILL take virtually as long as mankind has recorded history to melt the caps? And if that were the cause it would be a VERY GOOD thing for much of the planet. Not so good for Florida and Hawaii.
There are far more pressing and immediate issues to use our brains, time and money worrying about. This literally IS one of those “cross that bridge when we come to it” issues - and it is debatable that we are even headed for that particular bridge. In fact, it is looking more like we are headed away from it.