If there was no ice in the arctic, there would be little surfacearea for all the land animals.+++
Two points:1) The Polar Ice-cap melting would have no effect on sea-levelas it is floating sea-ice. It needs the ice cover on land(Greenland, the Antarctic continent, glaciers on mountains) to thawto raise the sea-level.2) Large-scale melting of land ice would raise the sea-level,potentially by tens of metres, and the sea would “transgress”across low-lying land; but plenty of land would remain above water.It would not be like that daft Waterworld film whose titlesequence is a map of the Americas being totally obliterated! Theworst effects would be on humanity, not wildlife.
Two points:1) The Polar Ice-cap melting would have no effect on sea-levelas it is floating sea-ice. It needs the ice cover on land(Greenland, the Antarctic continent, glaciers on mountains) to thawto raise the sea-level.2) Large-scale melting of land ice would raise the sea-level,potentially by tens of metres, and the sea would “transgress”across low-lying land; but plenty of land would remain above water.It would not be like that daft Waterworld film whose titlesequence is a map of the Americas being totally obliterated! Theworst effects would be on humanity, not wildlife.
