World Map Melted Ice Caps
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.
World map melted ice caps. The maps reveal a world with far fewer land masses that are above sea level. Business insider created an animation showing the whole world with missing borders. All the ice on land has melted and drained into the sea raising it 216 feet and creating new shorelines for our. Petersburg are all gone.
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. 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. The netherlands is completely underwater alongside most of denmark. 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.
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. Major cities like london venice brussels amsterdam copenhagen stockholm istanbul helsinki st. Some of the areas that.