Top 10 Surprising Results of Global Warming
LiveScience Staff | August 16, 2011 10:03am ET
Rebounding Mountains
Credit: nullThough the average hiker wouldn't notice, the Alps and other mountain ranges have experienced a gradual growth spurt over the past century or so thanks to the melting of the glaciers atop them. For thousands of years, the weight of these glaciers has pushed against the Earth's surface, causing it to depress. As the glaciers melt, this weight is lifting, and the surface slowly is springing back. Because global warming speeds up the melting of these glaciers, the mountains are rebounding faster.
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This should increase in all the highest mountain ranges around the world as time goes on. I'm wondering how high the Alps will get without glaciers on them to keep them smaller.
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Aug 16, 2011 - Your allergies may get worse and forest fires more intense, here's a look at what to look "forward" to as our planet warms.I was thinking: As this water weight shifts from glaciers in mountains and glaciers at the poles to ocean water more and more it will also increase the weight on the ocean floors which might to some degree also depress ocean floors deeper as well in some places?
Also, as the water weight shifts it changes the balance of the earth itself, changes weather patterns because larger amounts of water can carry and hold more heat also. So, the weights and changes affect the balance of the rotation of the earth along with the weather and multiple other factors that will possibly radically change life on earth in multiple ways into the distant future.
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