What If All the World's Ice Melted?
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Date: 2023-11-26
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Arial
Question: Why are so many videos like this using the hypothetical, -What if the ice caps melted OVERNIGHT? - The melting is NEVER going to happen overnight, so why hypothesize about it? Unless there's something I'm missing here.
I am totally on board with the fact that humanity needs to stop using fossil fuels, use more clean-energy alternatives, and alter our lifestyles to support a cleaner earth and healthier habits, so I'm not trying to discount the importance of these changes we need to make. I totally believe we've had the power to bring down those greenhouse gases, but capitalism controls the affordability and availability of cleaner alternatives. Yay corporate greed!
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Question: Why are so many videos like this using the hypothetical, -What if the ice caps melted OVERNIGHT? - The melting is NEVER going to happen overnight, so why hypothesize about it? Unless there's something I'm missing here.
I am totally on board with the fact that humanity needs to stop using fossil fuels, use more clean-energy alternatives, and alter our lifestyles to support a cleaner earth and healthier habits, so I'm not trying to discount the importance of these changes we need to make. I totally believe we've had the power to bring down those greenhouse gases, but capitalism controls the affordability and availability of cleaner alternatives. Yay corporate greed!
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whatif
5000 years? Looks like we got a shit load of time then.
40 years ago the internet didn't even exist. And today everybody has a mini computer in their hands with a million uses, at the touch of a button.
Technology is currently experiencing exponential growth.
I'm sure we'll find a solution within 5000 years lol.
Probably 100 years and we'll already have the technology to travel to other planets. Civilisation is literally changing every year now, as opposed to the past where there were changes maybe once every 100 years.
The power of communication technology and the instantaneous sharing of ideas has accelerated our technological development.
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5000 years? Looks like we got a shit load of time then.
40 years ago the internet didn't even exist. And today everybody has a mini computer in their hands with a million uses, at the touch of a button.
Technology is currently experiencing exponential growth.
I'm sure we'll find a solution within 5000 years lol.
Probably 100 years and we'll already have the technology to travel to other planets. Civilisation is literally changing every year now, as opposed to the past where there were changes maybe once every 100 years.
The power of communication technology and the instantaneous sharing of ideas has accelerated our technological development.
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Paul
This is only a small part of a very big picture. Should all the ice caps melt the weather systems would change and the way it rains etc, known in entirety as -The Water Cycle- would change. There would be increased evaporation as the planet would heat and lose a lot of the Albedo Effect. This means more water within the atmosphere, the weather would change, potentially dramatically. Any melting of the ice caps through climate change would not create tsunamis etc, that is purely a dramatisation.
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This is only a small part of a very big picture. Should all the ice caps melt the weather systems would change and the way it rains etc, known in entirety as -The Water Cycle- would change. There would be increased evaporation as the planet would heat and lose a lot of the Albedo Effect. This means more water within the atmosphere, the weather would change, potentially dramatically. Any melting of the ice caps through climate change would not create tsunamis etc, that is purely a dramatisation.
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Zealandia
The total volume of water in the world is fixed. If all the glaciers and ice caps on Earth were to melt, global sea level would rise approximately 70 metres. If your home town is more than 70 metres above sea level, your house will never get flooded. For most continents, this is not a big deal, but for most countries, they would lost their most developed cities since most of these cities are located on low-lying coastal plains.
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The total volume of water in the world is fixed. If all the glaciers and ice caps on Earth were to melt, global sea level would rise approximately 70 metres. If your home town is more than 70 metres above sea level, your house will never get flooded. For most continents, this is not a big deal, but for most countries, they would lost their most developed cities since most of these cities are located on low-lying coastal plains.
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NewHampshire
CO2 is not a greenhouse gas. It is nearly 2x denser than air and does not and cannot rise to upper atmosphere to trap heat. Human emissions do not affect climate. The gradual increase in the Sun's brightness and temperature as it progresses through it's main sequence stage is driving climate change and there is absolutely nothing we can to stop it.
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CO2 is not a greenhouse gas. It is nearly 2x denser than air and does not and cannot rise to upper atmosphere to trap heat. Human emissions do not affect climate. The gradual increase in the Sun's brightness and temperature as it progresses through it's main sequence stage is driving climate change and there is absolutely nothing we can to stop it.
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Dan
What about this alternate theory? Ice melts due to global warming. More water covers the earth. Humidity rises and the heat causes atmospheric thermal currents increasing cloud cover. Cloud cover causes another ice age by the clouds insulating the earth from the sun's heat. Oceans receed and the earth begins another warm/cool cycle.
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What about this alternate theory? Ice melts due to global warming. More water covers the earth. Humidity rises and the heat causes atmospheric thermal currents increasing cloud cover. Cloud cover causes another ice age by the clouds insulating the earth from the sun's heat. Oceans receed and the earth begins another warm/cool cycle.
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Jeffrey
What about new york city especially staten island I think the bronx would be OK sink it's connected to Westchester County it's way up there my borough brooklyn would be in trouble and of course Manhattan and queens it's sounds like out all of the five boroughs the bronx would be OK
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What about new york city especially staten island I think the bronx would be OK sink it's connected to Westchester County it's way up there my borough brooklyn would be in trouble and of course Manhattan and queens it's sounds like out all of the five boroughs the bronx would be OK
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howlingcommandose
Most humans can't focus on a 5000 yr change. Humanity as a group tends to only look 1to 10 yrs forward. This means for the next 100 yrs people won't believe it's true. Yes some will but since most will only be interested in their immediate survival, well there you are.
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Most humans can't focus on a 5000 yr change. Humanity as a group tends to only look 1to 10 yrs forward. This means for the next 100 yrs people won't believe it's true. Yes some will but since most will only be interested in their immediate survival, well there you are.
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Sydney
Those who still downplay the climate emergency, refuse to take urgent action and keep delaying and blocking government action to dramatically reduce climate change are slowly and painfully committing genocide against EVERYONE, including themselves!
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Those who still downplay the climate emergency, refuse to take urgent action and keep delaying and blocking government action to dramatically reduce climate change are slowly and painfully committing genocide against EVERYONE, including themselves!
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Alien
Not 'if', 'when'. All the ice will be melted within 150 years. We will have 10' sea level rise by 2040 and 20' by 2050. Runaway greenhouse is a powerful force. We should not have added 1. 5 trillion tons of greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere.
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Not 'if', 'when'. All the ice will be melted within 150 years. We will have 10' sea level rise by 2040 and 20' by 2050. Runaway greenhouse is a powerful force. We should not have added 1. 5 trillion tons of greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere.
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Pjc810
Hmm-. Let-s trust the science. When water freezes, it expands so when it melts, it retracts to its original volume. With that simple science, global water levels should drop when all the ice melts and not rise.
And if I am wrong, how?
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Hmm-. Let-s trust the science. When water freezes, it expands so when it melts, it retracts to its original volume. With that simple science, global water levels should drop when all the ice melts and not rise.
And if I am wrong, how?
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Terence
Well the last time all the ice on earth melted the oceans dropped 400 feet so I would imagine the same thing will happen the next time it all melts! It is a reoccurring cycle that has been going on for millions of years!
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Well the last time all the ice on earth melted the oceans dropped 400 feet so I would imagine the same thing will happen the next time it all melts! It is a reoccurring cycle that has been going on for millions of years!
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David
I will scared about it because I should always a. k. a: also known as all the time stop or cancel this event forever a. k. a: also known as for good to stop climate change permanently from as to most.
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I will scared about it because I should always a. k. a: also known as all the time stop or cancel this event forever a. k. a: also known as for good to stop climate change permanently from as to most.
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Dimitri
don't expect governments and corporations to do anything about this. they created the problem in the first place. if we don't do anything to change the world we live now, we are doomed.
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don't expect governments and corporations to do anything about this. they created the problem in the first place. if we don't do anything to change the world we live now, we are doomed.
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Noble
The earth is only returning to its original state. The ice was caused by Noah-s flood. The oceans beneath the oceans burst open. There is plenty room for all this water to go back home.
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The earth is only returning to its original state. The ice was caused by Noah-s flood. The oceans beneath the oceans burst open. There is plenty room for all this water to go back home.
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Marksman_x
You forgot to mention that all that free carbon would keep the planet from entering the new ice age which is only a couple thousand years away. We got too early of a start
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You forgot to mention that all that free carbon would keep the planet from entering the new ice age which is only a couple thousand years away. We got too early of a start
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Chet
As the ice ion land melts we find mammoth bones, etc which shows that animals once lived. Their food grew there.
We will live there and grow food. Relax.
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As the ice ion land melts we find mammoth bones, etc which shows that animals once lived. Their food grew there.
We will live there and grow food. Relax.
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Ari
If all over melted in one day, it would have to be a rather hot day. So, the water level would be the least of your worries. since you would be dead.
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If all over melted in one day, it would have to be a rather hot day. So, the water level would be the least of your worries. since you would be dead.
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Dad4
Climate change isn-t as bad as they say it is it has been hijacked for a evil motive the planet goes in cycles just like everything else
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Climate change isn-t as bad as they say it is it has been hijacked for a evil motive the planet goes in cycles just like everything else
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Aqeel
If we plant more trees then they will drink the water and also breathe co2 and the ice would not melt in the first place.
Logic.
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If we plant more trees then they will drink the water and also breathe co2 and the ice would not melt in the first place.
Logic.
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Richard
We Dundas we done this with all atomic testing we don't all in the 1950s 60s and 70s and the 80s so who gives a s--- what happens
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We Dundas we done this with all atomic testing we don't all in the 1950s 60s and 70s and the 80s so who gives a s--- what happens
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Twisted
I long for the day all of this Ice melts so the world gets the Consequences for what it has become with all of the killing
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I long for the day all of this Ice melts so the world gets the Consequences for what it has become with all of the killing
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Yathish
Oh a lot of lies and pseudoscience in this video, Didn't explain the ice cube and water anology in the start of this video
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Oh a lot of lies and pseudoscience in this video, Didn't explain the ice cube and water anology in the start of this video
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Hazel
The planet was already in accelerating warming pattern before the use of fossil fuels became a thing. - Don't move to Mars.
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The planet was already in accelerating warming pattern before the use of fossil fuels became a thing. - Don't move to Mars.
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tiffsaver
The -good news- about global warming is that my home in the Midwest will soon become valuable waterfront property.
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The -good news- about global warming is that my home in the Midwest will soon become valuable waterfront property.
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Joshua
really. the world is ending. who said polluting the air and dumping toxic in the earth was a bad thing. -
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really. the world is ending. who said polluting the air and dumping toxic in the earth was a bad thing. -
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Pranay
So this is going to happen sometime, and no country, money, religion, god or weapon can save it then.
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So this is going to happen sometime, and no country, money, religion, god or weapon can save it then.
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cwardo
You should do What if the world was perfect! No debt, food shortage, no hunger or climate change etc.
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You should do What if the world was perfect! No debt, food shortage, no hunger or climate change etc.
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Sleep
China is the biggest contributor to this. They make the air and ocean in japan and korea dirty too.
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China is the biggest contributor to this. They make the air and ocean in japan and korea dirty too.
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