Now about 10% of the world is ice that ice is melting and fast but what if all
of the ice in the world melted how would this affect humans and animals would
where you live be underwater or would your region not be as badly affected I'm
Charlie and today we're going to look at what if all of Earth's ice melted before
we get into it why not subscribe and press the notification bell if we keep
burning fossil fuels indefinitely global warming when eventually melt all of the
ice in the world this will raise the sea level by 216 feet and this would mean
every coastline in the world would change every country would dramatically
be reduced in size this means our continents would have new shorelines and
inland seas in North America the entire Atlantic seaboard would vanish Florida
and the Gulf Coast would be underwater totally in California all that would
remain is San Francisco's Hills they would become a cluster of islands and
the Central Valley would be a giant Bay the Gulf of California would stretch
north past the latitude of San Diego however you wouldn't be able to see San
Diego because it would be underwater too so just imagine all of Miami totally
underwater going over to Europe unless you want to swim everywhere London would
be a simple memory even tool buildings like the shard the largest building in
Europe would collapse that's because 60% of it would be
underwater also Tower Bridge would be a thing of the past
Venice Italy which is famous for its canals would be totally submerged the
Netherlands and most of Denmark would also be under the sea and the
Mediterranean that would have spilled into the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea
if all of Earth's ice melted South America would be hit hard to the Amazon
basin and the Paraguay River Basin would be overwhelmed by the Atlantic Ocean
this would wipe out areas like boiler Ceres Argentina also most of Uruguay and
Paraguay would be gone the best place to survive in South America would be in the
mountainous areas because they go so high they would not be under water these
mountainous areas can be found in Central America and the Caribbean coast
compared with other continents Africa would actually get off pretty scot-free
maybe that's like karma because have so many problems right now however
there not being any water in this hot climate would make much of Africa
uninhabitable also areas like Cairo Egypt would be swamped by the
Mediterranean in Asia lots of China would be flooded this
means over 600 million Chinese would have to move south the same is true for
Bangladesh a population of nearly 200 million and lots of India would also be
underwater too Cambodia's mountains would become
Islands that's because the rest of the entire country would flood in Australia
most of where people live right now would be lost despite being a large
country most of Australia lives on the coastal strip but this area where four
out of five Australians live would cease to exist they also couldn't live in
their desert because it would be uninhabitable and if we look at
Antarctica obviously being mostly ice it would be hit very hard four-fifths of
all of the world's ice is in East Antarctica but if all ice melted this
would pretty much disappear West Antarctica would also disappear too it's
actually more vulnerable than East Antarctica that's because most of it
sits on a bedrock which is below sea level since 1992 it's lost around 65
million metric tons of ice every year but what about us humans if we found a
safe place to live would we survive well unfortunately all of the ice being
melted would release a lot of co2 and because this happened overnight we'd
start choking because of all of the co2 in the air but humans would not be as
affected as animals especially sea animals that is because of all of the
added water ocean currents would change direction and because this happened
overnight the animals have not evolved this would cause most polar and
underwater animals to pass away and likely go extinct forever this will also
affect humans because we would not have the same food supply farming and fishing
industries would be totally destroyed and the animals that did survive would
have to migrate to a totally different climate places like deserts would also
completely change there would be heavy rainfall there because of the new
climate and areas like farms and rainforests which need water would dry
out this would also destroy the farming industry meaning we'd have no food this
may cause a worldwide famine taking out most of the human population the Sun
would also get more moisture from the oceans because there's more water this
would cause more clouds in the sky and more natural disasters this includes
things like hurricanes which would cause more floods because of the new water
levels previously tiny earthquakes which we may not even notice it could cause
tsunamis and this would cause lots of people to move around this kind of
unprecedented migration of people would cause a shutdown worldwide it would be
incredibly complex and governments would likely cease it would then be every man
for himself and it may well be a post-apocalyptic landscape but could
this actually happen well thankfully all of the Earth's ice can't melt overnight
but if we keep burning fossil fuels indefinitely it can happen scientists
say it may take more than 5,000 years to melt all of the world's ice but if
carbon keeps being added to the atmosphere then we may create an
ice-free planet right now the average temperature in the world is 15 degrees
Celsius that's around 58 degrees Fahrenheit but if we had no ice this
would jump up to 27 degrees Celsius that's around 80 Fahrenheit so let's
hope we focus on renewable energies and don't keep burning fossil fuels but now
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