4.+Hypothesise


== **Dayna: True. I think that the ice melting will have a big impact on the world because the water level will rise so much that it will cover a __LOT__ of land on every continent, and I'm just thinking of Antarctica melting. If Greenland was to melt too, it would have a huge impact on the world leaving numerous people homeless. The water rise would have covered their homes with everything inside leaving them with nothing. Many smaller low lying islands around the world will be completely submerged under water. ** == ==Alex: True. I think that if the ice melts it would have a really big impact on the world, because houses close to the water would be underwater because the sea level would rise alot. Lots of people would have no homes to live in and then because lots of ice melted nothing would reflect the suns heat rays which would heat up the planet even more. ==

What do __you__ think will happen if Antarctica melts?
==Dayna: It would be a majour catastrophe for the world. I think that the water level will rise about 3 metres which will leave hundreds of thousands of people homeless with nothing and needing to be resettled, all thier belongings and houses under water. Food supply would be low due to land masses being flooded. Also finacial losses throughout the world would be huge. == ==Alex: If Antarctica melts then the sea levels would rise, leaving lots of people homeless and also because nothing is reflecting the suns heat rays, it would make the world even hotter and cause lots of fires, and the smoke from that would speed up global warming, so if the world becomes hotter, we might have more and more droughts, so it would be harder to grow food, and the sun would heat up the ocean, which would make more hurricanes. ==

Could Antarctica melt in the next 50 years?
==Dayna: No, i don't think so because although Antarctica is melting and scientists are making a big deal of it, it isn't melting fast. And if we start thinking about what were doing it never will melt but if we don't I'd say it'd melt in the next 100-200 years. == ==Alex: I don't think it would, because Antarctica isn't melting fast, and Antarctica has been on the earth for a long time and it hasn't melted lots, but I do think that it could have melted quite a bit in 50 years because it has melted more over the last 20-30 years. ==

**What are some of the causes of ice melting? **
==**Dayna: Mostly Global Warming, although some of the things we are doing to encourage global warming are...** ==
 * ==**Chopping down forests and not replasing them** ==
 * ==<span style="color: #8a00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Burning fossil fuels-using cars etc.** ==
 * ==<span style="color: #8a00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Using spray cans with the wrong ingredients** ==
 * ==<span style="color: #8a00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**pollution from factories** ==
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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Alex: Some of the causes of ice melting are:
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 * ==<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Using transport too much and not walking or biking to close places ==
 * ==<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Not replacing the trees we've cut down ==
 * ==<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Not using Eco-Friendly things ==

<span style="color: #005dff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How many ways could you prevent Antarctica from melting?
==<span style="color: #8a00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dayna: Mostly doing the oposite of all the above, but they have started making electric cars which are good for the enviroment and what they should do is ban the fuels cars and if you want a car, make the electric ones compulsury. But the most important is to reduce our carbon footprint and all countries of the world need to realise this and work together to solve this problem. == ==<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Alex: We could prevent Antarctica from melting by using resorses that aren't harmful to the planet, and they don't create any type of green house gas. We could also try to stop things that we use producing green house gases, or change them so that they don't. ==

<span style="color: #005dff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">If Antarctica melted, how do you think the world would handle it? How would you feel about it?
==<span style="color: #8a00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dayna: I think that the world would hopefully begin to take the nessasary steps to try to reverse the situation. **<span style="color: #8a00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And I would hope that the world would learn by it's past mistakes and work together in the future so the same mistakes that led to this are not repeated. And if I am still alive when this event occurs I would feel devestated and frustrated that our forbears never took proper care of the planet. ** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Alex: Hopefully Antarctica wouldn't melt fast, so that we would be able to mabye stop it from happening, but if we couldn't then we might be able to move the houses or the people who are close to the sea to higher ground. But if Antarctica does melt fast, then I don't think that the world would handle it well, because we wouldn't be able to make something that would be big enough or strong enough to keep the earth cool. I would feel angry and annoyed because we didn't do much to stop it from happening. ==