What Happens When Icebergs Melt

(Excerpt from a Writing Assignment)

What Happens When Polar Ice Caps Melt?

When polar ice caps melt we experience what happened to my glass of water when the ice cubes melted. Ice bergs, like the ice cubes, do not have an effect on the water level because the floating icebergs displace the same amount of water as that was from the melting icebergs becoming water. There will be little to no change with melting icebergs when it comes to sea levels. 

The issue though will be melting ice and snow in polar regions, that are currently on land in places like Greenland and Antartica. This water and ice will be added to the oceans on earth causing sea level rises. Much of this is frozen water is fresh water, which would mix with the salt water in the seas. (ASAPsciecne, 2016). Mixing of the salt water would disrupt ocean life messing with the balance of salt water and could dramatically change ocean jet streams changing climates over the planet. (ASAPScience).  Also, melting in the polar regions would increase the sea levels for coastal lands. A rise of less than one meter is estimated to cause one trillion dollars in damage and at 10 meters it could permanently displace 10% of the worlds population. (ASAPScience).