World Map After Ice Caps Melt
According to 2010 government figures 39 per cent of us population live on a coast.
World map after ice caps melt. Taken together these facts are enough to make you pack up your possessions and run for the hills more specifically some hills which are. Though it may be hard to tell right now while we still have polar ice caps national geographic recently created a series of maps that illustrate how visually different the earth would look if all the ice on the planet melted. If possibly when the ice caps melt sea levels will rise by anything from 216 feet to 300 feet according to the us geological survey. If these ice sheets melted the rest of the world would be affected.
This is inevitable if the world keeps using fossil fuels. This would dramatically reshape the continents and drown many of the. That in itself would be enough to displace millions of people around the world but if this trend continues and all our polar ice caps and glaciers melt it s been predicted that the oceans will rise by a mind blowing 65 8 metres 216 feet. By current estimates if the polar ice caps melt sea levels around the world will rise by between 80 and 100m.
Terrifying map reveals the devastation that would occur if all the world s ice melted the earth contains around five million cubic miles of ice and 80 per cent of this is in east antarctica ice. So where will all that water end up. As national geographic showed us in 2013 sea levels would rise by 216 feet if all the land ice on the planet were to melt. In europe pictured cities including london and venice would be lost underwater as would the whole of the netherlands and.
All the ice on land has melted and drained into the sea raising it 216 feet and creating new shorelines for our continents and. In an interactive article titled if all the ice melted national geographic invites you to explore the world s new coastlines if sea level rises 216 feet. The maps reveal a world with far fewer land masses that are above sea level. As a result many of the continents current coastal areas would be submerged.
The business insider video team created this animated map to take us on a virtual tour of what all the continents would look like without any ice and we have to admit it s kind of terrifying. The maps here show the world as it is now with only one difference. The maps here show the world as it is now with only one difference. Some of the areas that.
Many cities and by default around 70 per cent of the world s population border on a body of water of some kind. This would entirely reshape the coastline as we know it and wipe out a lot of the world s major cities.