This RealLifeLore video is sponsored by the upcoming film,
An Inconvenient Sequel. You've probably heard
news, at some point in your life, that the Earth is warming,
and as result is that the Arctic ice is melting. There is no
debate that Earth is warming up. The planet's
average temperature as increased 1.1 °C
since 1880. And 16
out of the 17 of the hottest years, ever on record,
have been since 2001.
NASA estimates there is 95% probability
that this current warming is a direct result of
human activities since the mid 20th century
And 97/100 active publishing climate scientists agree
that human activity is extremely likely to blame
As a result of this, ice around the world is melting
and raising the planet's sea level
The oceans already rose 6 cm during the
course of the 19th century.
But they rose by 19 cm during the 20th century,
over 3 times faster
than they rose in the previous century.
NOAA estimates that global sea level could rise by
up to 2.5 meters by the year 2100.
Which would have devastating consequences. If this happens entire
island countries like the Maldives, Marshall Islands
Kiribati, and Tuvalu would be submerged
beneath the ocean and cease to exist
Their entire population has to be transplanted somewhere else
And this will create a situation in which hundreds of
thousands of state-less people would find a new home
150 million total
climate refugees from around the world
may exist by 2050, and by 2100
that number could rise to 2 billion people
18% of the global population
at that time.
But in an even worse case scenario than this, however
what would happen if all the ice on earth melted?
If all the ice on Antarctica, Greenland,
and the world glaciers melted in to the ocean
it would rise global sea level by an incredible
68.3 meters
Such a catastrophe would take 5,000 years of
the current rate of the ice melting to happen, but it would
severely alter the geography of our planet,
in North America, Vancouver, Seattle,
Portland, and most of San Diego, and
Los Angeles would be underwater. San Francisco would be an island
and San Jose would be destroyed by the waves.
The San Francisco Bay would greatly expand in size,
to completely swallow Sacremento. The
Gulf of California would expand so far North,
that Palm Springs would become a coastal city.
While on the Atlantic Coast, the ocean would expand to
swallow the cities of Corpus Christi,
Houston, New Orleans,
the entire state of Florida,
as well as the entire state of Delaware, almost all
of Long Island, and the cities of New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C.,
and Boston. South America would also be severely
flooded with two new inland seas existing on
the continent. And the cities of Buenos Aires, Montevideo,
and Rio de Janeiro, would all be underwater.
Europe would be one of the most devastated areas of the world.
The entire country of the Netherlands would be underwater.
And so would nearly all of Denmark and
half of Belgium. The British Isles will become more of
an archipelago. And London would be TOTALLY
buried beneath the sea. And Northern Germany would also be
entirely underwater including the city of
Berlin. And Venice in Italy would be long
since be claimed by the Adriatic Sea.
Istanbul would also be underwater. The Crimean
Peninsula would become the Crimean Island.
And the Black and Caspian Seas would be connected with one
another. Which would mean that Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan,
Turkmenistan, and Azerbaijan, would no longer
be landlocked countries. Africa
would be perhaps the least severely effected continent.
But Egypt would be severely damaged by having both
Alexandria and Cairo going underwater
The Persian Gulf, meanwhile, would swallow the entire
the entire countries of Qatar, and Bahrain, and the city of
Baghdad. India and Pakistan would be badly
damaged. But the entire country of
Bangladesh would cease to exist in this catastrophe.
Hundreds of millions of people would be underwater
in China, including Beijing and Shanghai.
In addition to the cities of Seoul, Pyongyang, and Tokyo.
Australia would be home to a new inland sea.
And finally, Antarctica would become more of an archipelago.
But unlike the Antarctica of today, this Antarctica
would likely be habitable and easily colonize-able
by future humans.
So what can we do to prevent this nightmare future from
happening? Reducing humanity's usage of fossil fuels
is perhaps the best way of mitigating our warming
climate.These following countries produce
At least 75% of their power from
renewable energy resources, like solar, wind,
hydro-power. Global investments in renewable
energy rose by 57% between 2008
and 2015. The European Union alone
more than doubled it's renewable energy
production between 2000 and 2013.
And recently 195 different countries
signed the Paris Climate Accord in which they all agreed
to cooperate in combating global warming.
While the stakes have never been higher, we are close
to seeing a true energy revolution. If you want to learn more
about climate change, or want to take action yourself,
then I strongly encourage you to go watch
the upcoming film, "An Inconvenient Sequel".
Watching the film is taking action,
and it goes into far more depth than I ever could in a
short YouTube video. The film will be
released in New York and Los Angles on July 28th
and will be released nation-wide on August 4th.
Please go to the description below for more detail.
Be inconvenient.
*Narrator in trailer talking about global warming*
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