World Map After Ice Caps Melt
The maps reveal a world with far fewer land masses that are above sea level.
World map after ice caps melt. 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. This is inevitable if the world keeps using fossil fuels. This would dramatically reshape the continents and drown many of the. Many cities and by default around 70 per cent of the world s population border on a body of water of some kind.
So where will all that water end up. If the world keeps burning fossil fuels and releasing carbon emissions indefinitely climate change will eventually melt all the ice at the poles and on mountains according to national. 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. This would entirely reshape the coastline as we know it and wipe out a lot of the world s major cities.
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. 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. 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. All the ice on land has melted and drained into the sea raising it 216 feet and creating new shorelines for our.
Some of the areas that. The maps here show the world as it is now with only one difference. According to 2010 government figures 39 per cent of us population live on a coast. Half live within 50 miles of.
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. In europe pictured cities including london and venice would be lost underwater as would the whole of the netherlands and. The maps here show the world as it is now with only one difference.