Several cities in France would disappear …
There are a lot of land ice. The two larger glacial caps of the planet – in Antarctica and Greenland – alone cover more than 15 million square kilometers. Suffice to say that this is a colossal quantity. But because of global warming, there has been less snow and less ice for several decades. Whereas it would happen if all this ice melted entirely? Business insider science scientists have arisen the question and have modeled such a scenario from the estimates of National Geographic. Their images, published on YouTube, are cold in the back …
First of all, if all the terrestrial ice melted, it would be purely catastrophic since it will mean that the planet has warmed a lot, to the point of provoking a total melting of ice … With all the consequences which arise from such global warming: the rise in sea level, the disturbance of oceanic currents, the upheaval of the world climate (winters more rudy in Europe) … Species like polar bears, penguins or caribou would see their natural habitat destroying. The disappearance of the frozen masses would modify the pressure on the earth’s crust, which could reactivate volcanoes or promote earthquakes.
If all the ice melted, the sea level would be much higher (+65 meters approximately), which would overwhelm many coastal cities and completely disappear several island countries such as the Maldives or Tuvalu (Polynesia). In Africa and the Middle East, metropolises like Dakar, Accra or Djeddah would have disappeared, engulfed by waters. South America would say goodbye to cities like Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. In the United States, we would see cities like Houston, San Francisco and New York-not to mention the whole state of Florida-slowly disappear in the sea. In Europe, many cities, like Brussels and Venice, would be almost under the waters. In France, cities like Bordeaux, Nantes, Brest, Caen, Marseille or Lille would be drowned. Millions of people would then be “climatic refugees” and should settle inland.
“”This will not happen overnight, but the most amazing is that our today’s actions change the face of the planet Earth as we know it and will continue to do it for tens of thousands of years to come “said the main study of the study, Ricarda Winkelmann, of the Potsdam’s climate impact Institute.
