World Map If Polar Ice Caps Melted
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.
World map if polar ice caps melted. So where will all that water end up. 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 kids may be thrilled. Some of the areas that.
So where will all that water end up. All the ice on land has melted and drained into the sea raising it 216 feet and creating new shorelines for our. The polar ice caps are already melting at quite a rapid speed. Some of the areas that.
All the ice on land has melted and drained into the sea raising it 216 feet and creating new shorelines for our continents and inland seas. Whether you ve had three feet of snow when you usually only get a couple of inches at most or if you re seeing temps like 100 degrees f when summer is most often in the 80s. 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. Mostly because water from the antarctic ice cap would run into the ocean the world s oceans would rise by about 200 feet 61 m if the polar ice caps melted.
National geographic recently created a series of maps similar to mr vargic s demonstrating the catastrophic effect earth s ice could cause if it melted and flowed into the oceans and seas. From 1979 to 2006 greenland s ice sheet had an increase of 30 in the melting rate. The maps here show the world as it is now with only one difference. Antarctica s ice sheet contains about 70 percent of the world s fresh water.
The effects caused by the melting of arctic ice if the polar ice caps melted would be relatively small. If all the ice covering antarctica greenland and in mountain glaciers around the world were to melt sea level would rise about 70 meters 230 feet. 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.