Melting Antartic Ice a consequence of Global Warming

The melting of one of the world’s largest ice-sheet would alter earth’s gravity changing the rotation in space and thereby forcing a rise in sea level along the coasts. A big loss of mass from the Southern Hemisphere would effectively make a pull of gravity stronger in the Northern Hemisphere, leading to a change in the pattern of rotation of the Earth.

This redistribution of mass would also affect the Earth’s rotation, which in turn would cause water to build up along the North American continent and in the Indian Ocean, said Professor Jonathan Bamber of Bristol University.

Scientists feel that North America would experience an average sea level increase of 25-percent. That is expected to cause catastrophic floods where cities such as New York and San Francisco could get hit by some sort of tsunamis.

However, the same scientists believe that the rise in sea levels would not be affected by the melting of ice into the oceans. And that’s something that Bill addressed a while ago …

[via Carbon-Based]

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