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To: blam
Water expands when it is frozen. That's why ice cubes float in your scotch. If the ice cap melts the sea level will not increase but the ice cap's volume will decrease. therefore, there will be more beachfront property and Nawlin's might not be below sea level!!!

Polar Bears are adaptable and the tree line will move north so there will be more ply wood for home building. With more growing seasons due to the axis tilt the ptamigans will mate more and moose will eat more and moose turd production will increase significantly!

Unfortunately the melt will effect the pingos! But not Freeper pings!

Pingos

31 posted on 09/28/2005 6:46:06 PM PDT by Young Werther
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To: Young Werther; Beelzebubba

Now that I think about it, it does make sense.
The rise would be negligible. Ocean levels were lower during the ice ages because a huge ammount of water was locked up in extensive ice caps. Certainly a lot more than there is today.

However our ice caps today are much smaller and thinner than they were to begin with. There are few places that have an ice cover anywhere near what they once were. Where I live now was once covered with a mile or more of ice. Today most of our ice cover is only meters thick in most places.


55 posted on 09/28/2005 6:59:01 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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