Artic Sea Ice

[brettallica]

Originally Posted by mikejet

Shouldn't we be more worried about ice melting in the Antartic continent rather than the North Pole? I mean technically, the ice at the North Pole is all floating therefore if it melts the waters won't rise. If the South Poles Ice were to melt, where all that ice is on land, then we should be worried.

That sounds logical to me, but I am going to venture a guess and say neither you nor I are educated in the proper fields to assess the situation and speak in such simple terms about it. There's probably a ton more to it than that.

I could be wrong, though. It's happened a couple times.