What If Antarctica Were a Rainforest?

About 90 million years ago, the frozen realm of Antarctica used to be a lush, swampy, temperate forest, similar to those found in New Zealand today.
The rainforest managed to thrive, even with four months of polar night, when there was no Sunlight. What if this ancient rainforest decided it was time to make a comeback? What if Antarctica were a rainforest? Would this work out well for us? Or be devastating for the human race?

Listen to the world’s top thinkers in science, astronomy, technology, academia and futurism pondering your most popular “what if” questions.

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[carlito]

Title:" what if Antarctica turned into a forest?"


Global warming:" that's why im here "

[duchi]

The Antarctica Nation was living in Harmony
_but everything changed when the Rainforest attacked_

[Rgzu]

Ah yes my favorite rainforest, Antarctica

[RIFLQ]

"Carbon emission is bad for Antarctica"

Antarctica: **Uno reversed card**

[zlyntudteam]

"the forest takes up to half of all living plants and animals in the world"

*the ocean* : am I a joke to you?

[sayeh]

If it’s possible can u do one with the Sahara desert: where it turns into a lively green forest or smth like that

[whitebear]

"What if the Antarctica was a Rainforest?"

Global warming: *_haha no_*

[raazpradhan]

Q: What if "What if" stopped uploading?
A: We humans will be hypothetically stop dying.

[aaronjonah]

What if we stayed at home (quarantined) for almost a year...?

[mcpeguy]

What if everyone Sneezed at the same time?

[emil]

Nobody:
Literally nobody:

Narrator: WE WILL ALL DIE!!

[MISS_RED_HEAD]

Y'all uploading new videos every day, is what is keeping me from going insane. I thank you.

[Endaxess_]

What if Antarctica became a rainforest?
Thousands of layers of Ice: Am i a joke to you?

[leochan]

My teacher giving me work in quarantine:
Me doing my own work: yeah i don't need that rubbish, i got What If right here.

[DailyFunFactsYt]

Random Fact:

On an April day in 1930, the BBC reported "There is no news". Instead they played piano music.

- Daily Fun Facts

[niranjanr]

Humans: why don’t we turn deserts green
Also humans: why isn’t this shit working?
Antarctica turns green
Again humans: Ah shit! Why does this always happen to us?

[stressbuster]

America : What if Antarctica wants Freedom..

Antarctica : I do not have oil..

America : We shall free you from your heavy trees..

[mahsiseua]

Italy: "Due to the human lock-down dolphins showed up"
Antartica:

[stgtheglitchog]

Amazon rain forest: Éléphants
Antartiqua rain forest: the evolution of the dinosaurs.

[anushkatulybanerjee]

what if : What if Antarctica were a rainforest
Me : then amazon would've been covered in ICE