02-09-2019, 08:28 PM
There's been a lot of attention given to climate change in the media, over the last 20 or 30 or however many years. In particular, the average global temperature is projected to rise by roughly 2°C over the next century - which doesn't sound like a big deal, but it would be enough to melt a fair amount of the ice at the polar ice caps - enough to inundate some of the world's major cities.
But, what if we turned this up, and imagined a situation where all of the ice at the polar ice caps melted? Well, YouTube user RealLifeLore has explored that scenario in this video:
Basically:
There's more in the video, but I think that covers most of the main bits. Let's just hope none of this ever comes to pass (granted, at current rates, it would take 5,000 years, but it'd be much better for the people of the future if this didn't happen to them
!)
But, what if we turned this up, and imagined a situation where all of the ice at the polar ice caps melted? Well, YouTube user RealLifeLore has explored that scenario in this video:
Basically:
- Sea levels would rise by 68.3 metres;
- Most major cities on the West Coast of North America (e.g. Vancouver, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego) would be submerged. San Francisco would still exist, but it would become an island;
- One the East Coast and the Gulf Coast, New York City, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Washington DC would be underwater, as would the entirety of Florida and Delaware;
- Europe would have it even worse. London, Berlin, Istanbul and Venice would be lost to the sea, as would all of the Netherlands, most of Denmark, and half of Belgium;
- In Asia, several countries would cease to exist, including Bahrain, Qatar (Sorry, Sepp Blatter
), and Bangladesh. China would be devastated by the loss of some of its largest cities, including Beijing and Shanghai;
- Antarctica would lose a good chunk of its land (over half, I'm guessing from the image in the video?). However, what remains would likely be habitable, without all the ice.
There's more in the video, but I think that covers most of the main bits. Let's just hope none of this ever comes to pass (granted, at current rates, it would take 5,000 years, but it'd be much better for the people of the future if this didn't happen to them

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