Anson

I'm lead to believe that even if the ice caps melted, there still wouldn't be enough water to flood all the land on Earth.
I'm just wondering if anyone could tell me how much land would be left if this happened.

NonHomogenized

From http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs133-99/gl_vol.html:
Geographic Area Percent Volume Percent level rise
region (km2) (km3) potential (m)**
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ice caps, ice 680,000A 4.24 180,000A 0.55 0.45***
fields, valley
glaciers, etc.

Greenland
(Inland Ice) 1,736,095B 10.82 2,600,000B 7.90 6.50
Local ice 48,599B 0.30 20,000B 0.06 0.05
caps and
other
glaciers

Antarctic 13,586,400C 84.64 30,109,800C 91.49 73.44****

East Antarctica 10,153,170 26,039,200 64.80

West Antarctica 1,918,170 3,262,000 8.06

Antarctic 446,690 227,100 0.46
Peninsula

Ross Ice Shelf 536,070 229,600 0.01

Ronne-Filchner 532,200 351,900 0.11
ice sheves
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Totals 16,051,094 100.00 32,909,800 100.00 80.44
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

So, if all the glacial ice on earth melted, the water level would rise 80 meters, globally (about 267 feet). So, everything would be flooded until one reached about that point above sea level (er, very loosely that point, anyhow).

so, places like http://www.bd-andalucia.es/cueva/cv1m6.html would become less clifflike. However, it would *hardly* be a global flood. Not by a helluva longshot. It wouldn't even reach most hills, much less cover mountains.

Anson

Thanks for that. So it's not enough to cover everything, but still obviously a catastrophic amount.
I wonder what the weather would be like if that happened. Or what live would be like in general.
Clearly the writers of the movie Waterworld were mistaken.

Abacus

By a factor of about 100.