(ORDO NEWS) — Climate scientists are sounding the alarm: the amount of sea ice in Antarctica has reached an all-time low, and the situation is taking an extreme turn.
Ice melt is a process that takes decades, and scientists have long warned of the dangers of sea level rise. National Geographic magazine imagined what the Earth will look like when all the ice on the planet melts.
North America
The Atlantic coast will disappear completely under water, along with Florida and the northern part of the Gulf Coast. The hills of San Francisco will become a collection of islands. The Gulf of California will stretch across the entire latitude of the flooded San Diego.
South America
The basins of the Amazon River to the north and the Paraguay River to the south will become inlets of the Atlantic Ocean, wiping out Buenos Aires, coastal Uruguay and much of Paraguay. But mountainous regions along the Caribbean coast and in Central America will not be affected.
Africa
Against the background of other continents, Africa will lose a smaller percentage of land, but rising temperatures will make most of the mainland uninhabited. In Egypt, Alexandria and Cairo will be surrounded by the rising Mediterranean Sea. But Baghdad, Doha and Dakar will go under water.
Europe
Many European cities are doomed to oblivion. London will be flooded, Venice will return to the Adriatic Sea, the Netherlands and much of Denmark will disappear from the face of the earth. The same fate will befall St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Riga, Tallinn and Stockholm. The Mediterranean Sea will absorb the territories of the Black and Caspian Seas.
Asia
The territory of China, where hundreds of millions of people live, will be completely flooded. The same will happen to Bangladesh and much of coastal India. A flood in the Mekong Delta will cut off the Cardamom Mountains from the mainland and turn them into an island.
Australia
Australia will continue to be predominantly desert, but will gain a brand new continental sea – and lose much of the narrow coastal strip where four out of five Australians live.
Antarctic
The East Antarctic ice sheet is so large (4/5 of all the ice on Earth) that it’s hard to imagine how one day it will melt. Due to global warming, he even added a little in size, but even such a hippopotamus will not survive a climate catastrophe. There is nothing to say about the western part of Antarctica: it has been flooded by ocean waters for many years.
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