Quote Originally Posted by RoadClosed
In Gore's 8 year doomsday prediction he portrays the earth as recieving more light or energy from the sun because the ice sheets are melting. Sheets that act as huge mirrors to reflect solar energy. Bottom line - I think, we don't know jack **** and if we make ANY rapid change it's going to be like releasing a mongoose on a tropical island. We gonna be fuxed massa.
Wait...that seems like the right conclusion but by incorrect science.

If they ice caps melt, there would be more water vapor in the atmosphere, hence trapping more heat. The fact that they reflect sunlight would be irrelavant since they are within Earth's atmosphere.

A good example of this would be when I was in Alaska awhile back ice climbing. We were playing baseball on a glacier while it was raining. However, the glacier was so big that it reflected enough sunlight back into the sky to keep rain clouds from forming. So...it was raining everywhere except for where we were playing--quite sunny actually. Pretty cool, huh?