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WHAT IF

Ice Melted - Prince EA Collab

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00:00 This is a question I've been thinking about all my life.

00:03 What if all the world's ice melted?

00:08 I mean, think about it.

00:13 What if a dramatic surge of climate change

00:17 melted all the world's ice overnight?

00:20 Would you wake up to find yourself drowning underwater?

00:24 How much of your country will be submerged?

00:28 This is what if, and here's what would happen

00:32 if all the world's ice melted.

00:35 Have you ever noticed how an ice cube melts

00:42 in a glass of water that's filled to the brim?

00:45 How does it change the water level?

00:48 The truth is, it doesn't.

00:51 Above or below the water line,

00:53 a melted ice cube replaces exactly the same volume of water.

00:58 Now let's add salt to the mix.

01:01 In the case of a one cubic inch ice cube,

01:04 the water level in the glass will rise 0.03 cubic inches.

01:09 Now that's a fairly small amount, right?

01:12 But what if you apply this to glaciers and floating sea ice?

01:16 5.8 million square miles of our planet is covered in ice.

01:22 If all of that was to melt overnight,

01:26 the global sea level would rise 230 feet.

01:31 All seven continents would be partially underwater.

01:37 There would be no more Miami, no London.

01:40 The coast of Australia will be washed out

01:43 along with 80% of its residents,

01:46 and so would Venice and the Netherlands.

01:49 Things wouldn't be that bad for Africa,

01:51 but with the extreme heat wave that would follow,

01:55 most of the continent would be uninhabitable.

01:58 You think the floods would wash out humanity entirely?

02:01 Well, not all of it,

02:03 but whoever is left would have plenty of dangers

02:06 to deal with because you see,

02:07 all that melted ice would release carbon dioxide

02:11 into the air.

02:12 Given that the oxygen content in the atmosphere

02:15 would remain the same,

02:16 you would start choking trying to breathe the air,

02:21 and you would have very little time

02:23 to acclimatize to this new world.

02:25 Ocean currents would change,

02:27 thereby affecting the sea life,

02:30 and with no time to adapt to these extreme changes,

02:33 our sea creatures and polar animals

02:36 would face mass extinction.

02:38 The ones still alive would have to leave their home

02:41 and find a new place to live.

02:44 This would result in a decrease in the human food supply.

02:48 A change in the sea current

02:49 would also mean dramatic weather changes.

02:52 Heavy rainfall would hit the deserts,

02:55 and areas with significant rainfall would dry out.

02:59 Wind patterns would change too.

03:01 Oceanic hurricanes would occur more frequently,

03:04 causing more floods.

03:06 Even the smallest earthquake off the coast

03:09 could devastate nearby regions,

03:12 causing a massive tsunami.

03:14 All of this would cause a global migration

03:17 that no government would be able to deal with.

03:20 The world as we know it would collapse.

03:24 Luckily, all the ice can't melt overnight,

03:29 but unfortunately, it is melting.

03:33 Even the oldest ice core is melting.

03:38 That has been storing all of Earth's climate information

03:41 for 1.5 million years.

03:44 If we keep adding fuel to the fire

03:50 that is climate change,

03:51 in only 5,000 years,

03:54 the Earth will be ice-free.

03:57 Peace.

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