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  • Remnants of the last Ice Age, global warming is a natural cycle, of course Ice melts quicker towards the end, test it for yourself. This fool states a rise by 220 feet? Bullshit!! Oh people of the world, doom is looming, by our own hand. Only one way to fix it, MONEY!!! ....and lots of it. Flee your coastal properties, sell them to me at a fraction of the cost!!

  • BULLSHIT

  • riddle me this, even if the polar ice caps ARE mellting, what would it matter. Think of it as ice cubs in a glass in water

  • well, i think the guy isn't quite right. the weight of that water off the artic ice cap would redistribute across the globe..& has it has been melting..but, ocean levels wouldn't rise significantly, because the ocean floors in certain geo fragile areas would sink due to that weight...

  • Of course these glaciers are not going to melt, and when they do it will not be humans' fault, even humans even exist still.

  • @AnonymousWhitePerson

    That's what they said when climate change was first introduced. Then research indicated that over a 2 year period from 2006 - 2008, an amount of ice equivalent to 2 times the size of the country France has melted away.

    Ice melts when you warm it up. Earth IS warming up. Think about it...

    For the record, glaciers are completely different to ice caps.

  • that comment was 5 months ago you still think that way today ahahahah

    i love it when idiots get fucked by time. al gore was wrong the north pole will be gone in less then 2 years. its almost completely gone already.

    i hope when it finally comes to pass you kill yourself

  • Stranded polar bears will drown when their glaciers melt! Get a clue, people. Polar bears can swim! The don't get "stranded" on pieces of ice; they swim to the ice while hunting.

    Al Gore's been saying for over a decade that the North Pole will melt within 5 years, and people still believe him. It's like WIlliam Miller, whose church believed the rapture would happen by March 21, 1844. Then April 18... Then October 22... The undying faith of some people never ceases to amaze me.

  • Tahnks for uncovering that :)

    Al Gore is just wanting attention cos he has no friends.

  • yeah, too bad what he "uncovered" isn't true.

    Seriously, is that the proof that that the ice caps aren't losing ice?

    Polar bears can swim and Gore is a nerd?

  • "Get a clue, people. Polar bears can swim! The don't get "stranded" on pieces of ice; they swim to the ice while hunting."

    People can swim too.

    Yet people still drown.

    Polar bears can swim but only so far. Your premise assumes there is ice to swim too. There have already been cases of polar bears drowning because they couldn't' reach ice in time.

    And this isn't even going into the fact that Polar bears need ice to hunt too so if they don't drown, they still starve.

  • so a how does the ice caps work??

  • The title is completely misleading. I'm disappointed in How Stuff Works.

    This says absolutely nothing about "How polar ice caps work"...

  • damn i want see what will happen in 100 years but im gonna die really earlier, that sucks lol

  • Antarctica's ice sheet is the thickest it has been since officially being measured.

    could you imagine how much deeper the Oceans would already be if there werent so many sponges in it?!?

  • 3 Years to live. Whos pointing fingers after we die.

  • ice floats because its less dense than water. Ice takes up more space than water in other words, so when the ice melts, what happens, it takes less space.

  • this is more of a go green thing than a how shit works show with a bunch of liberals that dont know shit go green bull shit ill go red and burn down all the fucking forests down to kill everybody so no one will have to listen to your liberal bullshit!!!!!!

  • dumb asses there all dumb asses

  • No, The mass of the ice cube already made the water rise, if it melts it just takes away mass.

  • Why do people worry about global warming? It's a business, that's all it is. The first signs of global warming started in the 1800's, although the phrase wasn't coined then. About 30 years later it was global cooling. Then warming and so on. Even in the 70's people were talking about global cooling and the next ice age. Global temperatures always fix themselves. It's just a cycle the planet goes through. Scientists are saying in about 30 years global warming warming won't be a problem anymore.

  • where in the "cycle" is millions of years of fossil fuels combusted in 300 years

  • I swear this guy has the same voice as the guy who does "why won't God heal amputees" I'm serious, youtube it!!

  • lmao 0:45 napoleon dynamite

  • "nothing were to happen if the artic polar ice melted" ... actually a lot would happen due to something called the albedo effect. polar ice reflect much of the UV radiation that bombards earth every day, and if it were to melt, ocean temperatures could rise and land temps could rise, thus warming our planet. Then ice would be more likely to melt in Greenland... Its called a positive feedback loop.

  • that fucking whore in the yellow shirt kept yelling into the mic.

  • "I DON'T KNOW I'M AN ART MAJOR!!!!"

  • fuckin stupid americans them and chianese make the most pollution and they don't even know what is gonna happen when the caps melt

  • I'm just wondering why scientists can't change greenhouse gases to harmless gases. like removing carbon from carbon dioxide to make diamonds and then oxygen is left for us to respire? this way everyone's happy

  • sea levels rise, i think... is that right?? man.. ppl still dun care abt global warming??

  • you're an idiot ppl are going to be fucked before the earth dude. the earth is fine been through alot worse then us and a little gas lol

  • I highly highly highly doubt that anyone is going to die or even have the chance of dying from gradual sea level rising...it will take hundreds of years at the least and by that time I am pretty sure we will have come up with solutions for this

  • Yanks are more likely to destroy the planet than anything else.

  • Haha ironic no, refrigratiors melting things xD

  • Fuck the coast

  • il die :D

  • This is nothing new. During the past ice ages, the ocean level was also much lower than today.

    With huge glaciers covering the continents, the ocean was about 120 meters below current sea level.

    The "Great Flood" myth comes from early human civilizations all over the planet that lived through the ending of the last great Ice Age about 10,000 years ago.

    They had no clue when the ocean would stop rising or why it was happening, so we get our epic myths of some angry god, etc etc.

  • Does the ice cube in a glass a valid analogy? The Earth and it's oceans aren't inside a vessel with rigid walls. The melting of the N. pole ice has to contribute some to rising sea levels.

  • Two questions:

    1. Why scientists are saying that emissions are depleting the ozone over Antarctica if there is no transport in Antarctica at all? Why ozone ammount is normal over polluting territory? yeah, because of wind.. but there is also wind over Antarctica.

    2. Ozone is the triatomic molecule which exists in the Earth's athmosphere in small concentration. How the heck scientists determined the actual ammount of ozone in the huge volume over Antarctica?

  • Get an Iron ball. Now get some small spherical magnets. The ball is the earth, the magnets are destructive chemicals in the atmosphere. Stick all the balls where the pollution is heaviest. Now spin the iron ball and watch all the balls fly to the poles because of the centrifugal force. The End

  • the cold water will also travel south to the warmer waters and create major hurricanes...

  • bullshit

  • wouldn't the circulation of the hot water, and cold water also stop from the increase of fresh water in the Atlantic ocean?

  • If the polar ice caps melt... we're screwed.

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