How is global warming raising the sea levels?

Answer 1

Global Warming- Cause and Effects

The damaging gases we have released into the air have one main detrimental effect that causes global warming. Because earth has an amazing thing that allows it to sustain life--- the atmosphere, these gases (refered to as "green house gases") get trapped in it. As we add to the gases, the global temperature goes up. Think of it like this- when you add more and more blankets on ourselves, more heat becomes trapped between the matierial and our bodies. As we add gases, more heat becomes trapped by the harmful gases. Although 2 degrees (F), more or less, may not seem like a big deal when it comes to the weather, it is. Human's and animal's body temperature is regulated-- and increasing the body temperature can make the person/ animal feel ill. The earth's animals, water, plants, and just about everything living on it, can be drastically effected by a two degree difference. As with the glaciers, tempuratures are rising, causing them to melt. Since their size is so large, they have a great deal of water to release. They are melting at an alarming rate, which causes water to rise. Although it seems a very minute difference is being made, the repricotions after another 1 or 2 hundred years or more may, and most likely will, be disastorous.

Answer 2

Global warming is the cause of rising sea levels because the warming makes the oceans expand, so the levels rise. Also the melting of land ice like ice caps and glaciers runs into the sea and raises the levels.

Answer 3

Glaciers are melting ice.It mainly found on mountains or cold regions.When glaciers melts it goes down to get its way into the sea.Well,if the amount of melted water is not that much,nothing would happen.If it is much then it may make seas flood the earth.

Answer 4

Glacial ice melt inevitably ends up in the oceans. There is enough ice on Greenland to raise ocean levels approximately 7 meters (almost 20 feet). Antarctic ice is not expected to melt for centuries, but there is enough fresh water locked up there to raise ocean levels some 60 meters (200 feet). Thermal expansion of seawater is another contributor to this.

Answer 5

Global warming is causing the Earth's temperature to rise, resulting in the melting of glaciers and ice sheets. This increased melting of ice leads to more water entering the oceans, causing sea levels to rise. Additionally, warmer temperatures also cause seawater to expand, further contributing to rising sea levels.

Answer 6

Polar ice is mostly floating ice, so melting it will not change sea levels. Any ice on land, as in Greenland, Alaska and Canada will raise sea levels when/if it melts.