If the world will melt all the ice

• If the earth will melt all the ice

If humans continue to burn fossil fuels and emit carbon dioxide, the global warming eventually melt all of the ice on the poles and mountain tops. Who in the world more than 5 million cubic miles of ice - according to scientists, to ensure that melt all these stocks, it will take more than 5,000 years. The average temperature, which is now 14 degrees Celsius, will reach 26, 6 degrees, and sea level rise by 65 meters.

These maps show how the world would be if all the ice on Earth melted and become part of the world's oceans. The current coastline is marked by a thin white line.

North America

All Atlantic coast disappears, along with Florida and the Gulf Coast. The hills of San Francisco will become a cluster of islands, and the Central Valley will become a huge bay. Gulf of California will continue to the north and swallow San Diego.

South America

in the south of the Amazon basin in the north and the river basin of Paraguay will bays in the Atlantic Ocean, disappeared in Buenos Aires, the coastal Uruguay and most of Paraguay. Will remain the mountain areas along the coast of the Caribbean Sea and Central America.

Africa

When compared to other continents, Africa will lose less land, but warming may make the most of it uninhabitable. Egypt, Alexandria and Cairo will be flooded a spillage Mediterranean Sea.

Europe

From London only remain memories of Venice will fill in the Adriatic Sea. Through thousands of years, according to this scenario, the Netherlands for many years as the rest will be under water, most of Denmark will also disappear. Overflowing waters of the Mediterranean will join the Black and Caspian.

Asia

The land on which 600 million Chinese now living, would be flooded, as well as the 160 millionth Bangladesh and most of the coastal areas of India. Spill the Mekong Delta will lead to the fact that the cardamom mountains in Cambodia become an island.

Australia

On the continent, which is now mostly deserted, there will be an inland sea, but would be flooded much of the narrow coastal strip, namely in the area now live four out of five Australians.

Antarctica

ice sheet in East Antarctica is so great that it comprises four-fifths of all the ice on the planet. He survived the earlier periods of warming and may appear to be unsinkable. Lately, he seems a bit compacted - due to global warming. Warm atmosphere contains more water vapor, which falls as snow in East Antarctica. But even this giant is unlikely to survive the return to the climate of the Eocene.

Like the Greenland Ice Sheet, Shield of West Antarctica in the previous warm periods was much less. It is vulnerable because most of it is on solid rock below sea level. Heated ocean melts ice sheet from below, causing it to collapse. Since 1992, an average decrease of 65 million tons of ice per year.