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The Impact of Melting Ice on Earth: Causes, Effects, and Consequences
Explore how melting ice due to global warming is reshaping our planet, causing sea levels to rise and threatening the existence of low-lying island nations. Find out about the scientific consensus on human activity's role in climate change and the potential future scenarios if the trend continues.
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This real-life lore 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 a result the Arctic ice is melting
There is no debate that earth is warming up the planet's average temperature has increased
1.1 degrees Celsius since 1880 and 16 out of 17 of the hottest years ever on record have been since
2001. NASA estimates there is a 95% probability that this current warming is a direct result of human activity since the mid 20th century.
And 97 out of 100 actively 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 levels.
the oceans already rose by 6 centimeters during the course of the 19th century
but they rose by 19 centimeters during the 20th century over three times faster
than they rose during the previous century.
NOAA estimates that global sea levels 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
will be submerged beneath the ocean and cease to exist.
Their entire populations will have to be transplanted somewhere else,
and this will create a situation in which hundreds of thousands of stateless people will have to find a new home.
150 million total climate refugees from around the world may exist by 2050,
and by 2100, that number could rise up 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's glaciers melted into the ocean,
it would raise global sea levels by an incredible...
68.3 meters. Such a catastrophe would take 5,000 years at the current rate of 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 Sacramento.
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 in 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 would become more of an archipelago, and London would be totally buried beneath the sea.
Northern Germany would also be entirely underwater, including the city of Berlin.
And Venice in Italy would have long since been reclaimed 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 perhaps be the least severely affected continent,
But Egypt would be severely damaged by having both Alexandria and Cairo going underwater.
The Gulf meanwhile would swallow 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 colonizable by future humans.
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No chapters for this video generated yet.
Video Transcript
This real-life lore 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 a result the Arctic ice is melting
There is no debate that earth is warming up the planet's average temperature has increased
1.1 degrees Celsius since 1880 and 16 out of 17 of the hottest years ever on record have been since
2001. NASA estimates there is a 95% probability that this current warming is a direct result of human activity since the mid 20th century.
And 97 out of 100 actively 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 levels.
the oceans already rose by 6 centimeters during the course of the 19th century
but they rose by 19 centimeters during the 20th century over three times faster
than they rose during the previous century.
NOAA estimates that global sea levels 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
will be submerged beneath the ocean and cease to exist.
Their entire populations will have to be transplanted somewhere else,
and this will create a situation in which hundreds of thousands of stateless people will have to find a new home.
150 million total climate refugees from around the world may exist by 2050,
and by 2100, that number could rise up 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's glaciers melted into the ocean,
it would raise global sea levels by an incredible...
68.3 meters. Such a catastrophe would take 5,000 years at the current rate of 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 Sacramento.
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 in 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 would become more of an archipelago, and London would be totally buried beneath the sea.
Northern Germany would also be entirely underwater, including the city of Berlin.
And Venice in Italy would have long since been reclaimed 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 perhaps be the least severely affected continent,
But Egypt would be severely damaged by having both Alexandria and Cairo going underwater.
The Gulf meanwhile would swallow 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 colonizable by future humans.
