do you think if all the icecaps in the world melts because of depletion in ozone layer?

Question

do you think if all the icecaps in the world melts because of depletion in ozone layer?

Answer 1

The melting of ice caps has more to do with global warming than the ozone layer. Ozone is depleted because of CFCs (a pollutant) and that lets more UV radiation hit the earth. This is the type of radiation that causes skin cancer.



Now, if you're talking about ice caps--the problem here is mostly carbon dioxide, aka "global warming". The planet has what is called "surface albedo"-- the amount of light and heat that gets reflected back into space as opposed to absorbed by the earth (think of black vs. white surfaces in the summer). If there is a lot of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the reflected heat doesn't go back into space, it stays in the air and warms the planet. This is "the Greenhouse Effect." It works the same way that the inside of your car heats up in the summer.



As you may be able to guess, ice caps reflect more light and heat than other places on earth. So, as temperatures increase and the ice melts, the earth doesn't reflect as much heat, which increases the temperature, which melts more ice, and so on.



Eventually, yes, the ice caps will melt. But don't worry--300,000,000 years ago most of the earth was covered in water, so it's not like everything will die. It might even be a natural cycle, and humans are just making it happen a little faster. In fact, Volcanoes have dumped as much pollution into the atmosphere over the years as people have. The truth is, we don't have enough information to know for sure IF it will happen or when.

Answer 2

The thinning of the ozone layer allows more UV rays from the sun get to the Earth. The ozone layer blocks most of the UV. UV rays can cause skin Cancer to those of us that work or play out side. The ozone 'holes' hover over the north and the south of Earth. If the ozone layer is thinned too much the UV rays might begin to harm plant life. Please note that ozone depletion has nothing to do with Global Warming.

Answer 3

Actually, the ozone mostly is there to protect us from solar radiation, not climate control. And the ice caps are receding because we are in the middle of an "ice age" but this in an "Inter-glacial" ice age. Its not caused by global warming. (Besides, some Canadian scientists proved that the math and "proof" that everyone uses to say there is global warming was done with bad reserch and the computer calculated the info incorrectly because his program was shoddy.)There is an article in the BBC about the rise in tempature around the caps, and they draw a refrence from the US journel Science, that there is no clear reason the caps are melting. Also the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) says "the cause of the warming is not clear." in a bbc article called Unexpected warming in Antarctica.

Answer 4

Global warming is just a cycle of the warming and cooling of the earth. After a couple more maybe hundred years it will cool again. It's all related to sun spots not CO2 or CFC's or ozone.