WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF ALL THE GLACIERS MELTED OVERNIGHT?

Glaciers form the largest reserves of fresh water on the planet, storing 75% of the Earth's fresh water! Today they cover about 10% of the Earth. During the last Ice Age, glaciers covered about 32% of the total area of the planet. There are two types of glaciers. The first are alpine glaciers. They form on the slopes of mountains and slowly move down valleys. The second are ccontinental glaciers - continental ice sheets that cover large areas. The largest of the existing glaciers is the Lambert Glacier, located in Antarctica. It is about 100 kilometers wide, 400 kilometers long and 2.5 kilometers deep! The two largest ice sheets on Earth, the ice of Greenland and Antarctica, make up more than 99% of the world's glacial ice. But what would happen if all this enormous mass of glaciers melt? Where would all water go? What would happen to the oceans? Would salt water mix with fresh water? In this video you will learn what would happen if all the glaciers were gathered together in one place; what parts of the land would remain if all the glaciers melted; what would happen to Antarctica and finally, what would happen to the flora and fauna and how might the big meling change the length of day? These are just a few interesting facts.
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[tazkrebbeks]

I guess my property in Arizona would become oceanfront property.

[Harkeilla]

“Large areas of north Australia could become hot, hostile and uninhabitable”

Yeah… Where are you living? It’s already like that!

[dereksmith]

It would be interesting to see the impact on earth if temperatures were to drop by 5° It seems to me that that would be worse for us humans.
But that is never discussed.

[rcash]

if it happens slowly enough the fish and animals will probably adapt.... like they already have to earths current enviroment

[newpapyrus]

One flaw in this video, IMO, is the hypothesis that rising heat would expand desert areas. Rising temperatures actually increase humidity due to the increased evaporation of ocean water. And that means a lot more rainfall and an expansion of forest and rainforest.

The expansion of deserts is usually associated with glacial periods. During glacial periods, rainforest in Africa almost disappear.

[calemob]

How can they predict all this happening when they can't even predict the weather for next week properly, 😂😂

[carlosmunoz]

I always thought that melting ice wouldn't affect water levels to that extent, because I always compared it to having a full glass of water with ice cubes and when the ice cubes melt it doesn't over flow the glass. I understand that some countries and land are below sea levels which makes sense they would be affected. But I think that alot of information out there is exagerated.

[jaybrodell]

Actually, this has happened in the past. After the end of the last glacial maximum (the peak of the Ice Age), the sea level rose 100 meters or about 420 feet. Coastal populations had to move, cities were flooded and rich areas, like where the Persian Gulf is now, no longer were farmed. Today, however, the Antarctica is experiencing record cold. and it looks like we really are in a cooling trend since the 1930s.

[joshuatexas]

If something happened to make all the glaciers melt, it wouldn't be the water we need to be concerned with.

[selxwrld]

eventhough this is far down the line, it’s actually pretty scary to think about the fact that everything will be gone when this happens

[Kimotsi]

I’m definitely panicking tonight and on the weekend. Asked my kids to panic too as backup. Thank you so much

[UnknownAGENT]

I don’t understand how the Grand Canyon used to be filled with water and now it’s not. All this talk about glaciers melting and water rising… are we saying that water levels will go BACK to what they once were? If so, does that mean this is a normal CYCLE of water rising, freezing, melting, etc?

[JoeSaidReptiles]

I remember hearing in school decades ago that there would be no icecaps by the year 2000. I also remember hearing we would run out of petrol around the same time.

[audacityxiix]

The massive heat capable of doing that would probably kill us all before we found out.

[BlueJayKRO]

Nice vid but you forgot to point out that due to all the cities and alike becoming flooded that the amount of pollution that would then enter the oceans would kill nearly every living thing in the sea. With the oceans becoming dead and stagnant this would seal the fate of humans and many other land living creatures.

[toonarmy]

We were told at school in the early 80 `s that London would be under water by 2000.

[AntaresTwo]

Bold of nasa to put both space stations in places that could be underwater eventually.

[Reaniman]

Am I the only one who didn't know Antarctica has actual land under all that ice?

[katea]

Thank you for mentioning Australia! A lot of videos don’t! ❤️

[conradsutton]

Other than mapping sea levels on land, this video was simply a sci-fi 'what if?'. It doesn't take into consideration the factors that would have to be involved for the polar caps to completely melt: tectonic plate movement, oceanic current shift, volcanic activity, the earth's elliptical orbit around the sun (and it's eccentric rotational pattern), plus countless other variables. Humans have adapted for tens-of-thousands of years to global climate change. I think the most frightening thing related to this, to younger generations, is the thought of losing their wi-fi signal.