Just for a change....

[zoidberg]

"The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain...."

 

[Alan S]

I don't think it matters, all of them and most of the public had this one licked 30 years ago. This has received so much coverage I assumed it wasn't a genuine question so apologies if NormanS has somehow missed the messaging.

Archimedes had it licked more tha 30 years ago! The ice at the North Pole is floatinhg so if/when it melts it will not affect sea level. The much greater volume of ice on Greenland and Antartica will raise sea levels considerably along with thermal expansion.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Archimedes had it licked more tha 30 years ago! The ice at the North Pole is floatinhg so if/when it melts it will not affect sea level. The much greater volume of ice on Greenland and Antartica will raise sea levels considerably along with thermal expansion.

Further, melting the sea ice will decrease the albedo (ice is white, seawater is (more or less) black)! So less of the sun's radiation is reflected back into space. Therefore, the Arctic Ocean will become warmer, with major effects on oceanic circulation. The immediate effects might well be to plunge Europe into an ice age!

The effects of global warming are by no means always obvious. But oceanic circulation is the major way by which heat is transferred between the equator and the poles; water carries far more heat than air.

I forget the exact reasoning, but melting sea ice does have a small effect on sea-level, as well. But it is small.

 

[dunedin]

What? you mean loads of the population speaking French?
Now that really would be serious.
Can you imagine a Geordie gobbing off in pigeon French, mixed with bits of what he already thinks is English

Speaking French - like the English royalty did for centuries ?

 

[Daydream believer]

Maybe it will stop the North Pole ice from melting and flooding coastal cities.

I think I can disprove that theory.
When the barmaid puts ice in my coke & it melts before I drink any, it does not flow over the side of the glass
All that happens is that I end up with watery coke

 

[Daydream believer]

In northern Canada they mostly speak Inuktitut!

Get on well with the Welsh then. No one can understand them either.

 

[Daydream believer]

Speaking French - like the English royalty did for centuries ?

Not being very bright, they were slow learners

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Speaking French - like the English royalty did for centuries ?

They learned English and then were replaced by a lot that spoke German!

 

[zoidberg]

They learned English and then were replaced by a lot that spoke German!

They learned English and (are/were ) being replaced by a lot that spoke Urdu/Farsi/Pashto/Dari....

 

[dunedin]

They learned English and then were replaced by a lot that spoke German!

Wasn’t there a bit of Scots and Dutch in between?

 

[Wansworth]

I wonder if I can return the new fridge/freezer I just bought ....

 

[Marsali_1]

A number of folk on this thread are expecting the UK to become more like northern Canada due to the future effects of climate change. While they seem to be focussing on snow and ice as a likely (and, by inference, unpleasant) outcome for the UK, the reality will be much worse. Vast tracts of the Canadian north are inhabited by immeasureable hordes of midges, mosquitoes, black flies, and deer and moose flies. Each of these species specialize in collecting blood from different places across the human anatomy and all seem to enjoy flying into open mouths and nostrils which tends to make breathing a challenge. It is no coincidence that the human population density in the north of Canada is about 1 person per 3 sq.km. and none of them remain stationary any longer than necessary.

 

[Wansworth]

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A number of folk on this thread are expecting the UK to become more like northern Canada due to the future effects of climate change. While they seem to be focussing on snow and ice as a likely (and, by inference, unpleasant) outcome for the UK, the reality will be much worse. Vast tracts of the Canadian north are inhabited by immeasureable hordes of midges, mosquitoes, black flies, and deer and moose flies. Each of these species specialize in collecting blood from different places across the human anatomy and all seem to enjoy flying into open mouths and nostrils which tends to make breathing a challenge. It is no coincidence that the human population density in the north of Canada is about 1 person per 3 sq.km. and none of them remain stationary any longer than necessary.

Will We all be migrating back to Africa were the troublesome migrants are coming from now

 

[lustyd]

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Will We all be migrating back to Africa were the troublesome migrants are coming from now

Unlikely, it’ll be 50C in most of Africa by that point so while there may not be flies, there probably won’t be humans either. We’ll all be fighting over a small patch of inhabitable land somewhere in France.

 

[Wansworth]

Unlikely, it’ll be 50C in most of Africa by that point so while there may not be flies, there probably won’t be humans either. We’ll all be fighting over a small patch of inhabitable land somewhere in France.

Spain is half desert,except the northern bit….so I am well placed

 

[zoidberg]

Vast tracts of the Canadian north are inhabited by immeasureable hordes of midges, mosquitoes, black flies, and deer and moose flies. Each of these species specialize in collecting blood from different places across the human anatomy and all seem to enjoy flying into open mouths and nostrils which tends to make breathing a challenge. It is no coincidence that the human population density in the north of Canada is about 1 person per 3 sq.km. and none of them remain stationary any longer than necessary.

Sounds to me like Skye in August...!

 

[RAI]

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Even if all the (floating) ice at the North Pole melted, how is that going to cause flooding?

.... but the snow and ice on the land...

 

[RAI]

Further, melting the sea ice will decrease the albedo (ice is white, seawater is (more or less) black)! So less of the sun's radiation is reflected back into space. Therefore, the Arctic Ocean will become warmer, with major effects on oceanic circulation. The immediate effects might well be to plunge Europe into an ice age!

The effects of global warming are by no means always obvious. But oceanic circulation is the major way by which heat is transferred between the equator and the poles; water carries far more heat than air.

I forget the exact reasoning, but melting sea ice does have a small effect on sea-level, as well. But it is small.

Something to do with the ice being fresh water and the sea being salty. Must fit the plimsoll line? Or freezing water expanding so it floats?

 

[Marsali_1]

Sounds to me like Skye in August...!

Can't be, they wear skirts in Skye. Unless that's how the Highland Fling came about

 

[Wansworth]

Can't be, they wear skirts in Skye. Unless that's how the Highland Fling came about

What possess the Scot’s to developed the kilt with nastymidges and thistles?