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4635280 No.4635280 [Reply] [Original]

What would happen if all the polar icecaps melted?

Would it truly be the Waterworldian disaster everyone makes it out to be?

The sea level rising 66 meters is quite a lot.

>> No.4635481 [DELETED] 

>>4635280
oh yeah, shit would absolutely fuck up for a lot of people.
we'd lose a lot of land, and most of us would probably have to move

>> No.4635497

Well, the northen icecap would not do much, since it rests mainly on water.

Southern cap... well goodbye Louisiana, Netherlands and Bangladesh.

Considering the most sea level rising we've detected so far is from water expansion, I doubt the melting will give us headaches in the near future.

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not OP, just happened to have these because they are relevant, although I don't know the source nor the date projected in the images

>> No.4635622

>>4635603
the south: gone
argentina: gone
egypt & iraq: blub
pakistan: drowned
china: ravished
australia: personal private sea that'll solve all draught issues

brb, gonna buy 50 hummers

>> No.4635627

>>4635595
>>4635609
>The UK, Ireland, Poland, Latvia/Estonia/Lithuania, Romania, Hungary, Italy, Tunisia, Argentina, Venezuela, Bangladesh, China, US South all completely fucked

Boy it sure feels good to live at 3937 feet above sea level.
Until the world economy collapses.

>> No.4635641

>>4635609
Too bad you don't know the source. It would be good to know how much sea level rise was displayed on these maps. As of now, they are pretty useless...

>>4635622
While I share your animosities, the problem is not the land, but the people living on it.
And since the water won't come in a gigantic flood, they will have ample time to leave and hang out at your place...

>> No.4635648

>>4635603
This map is very inaccurate, since the maker just displayed all regions below a certain height as water without keeping other terrain features in mind (I doubt the caspian sea will care much about melting ice caps).

>> No.4635737

Greenland and Antartica would raise without the heavy ice. This would lower the sea level.

>> No.4635744

>Aral and Caspian seas larger
Explain plox. I thought those were basically like lakes? How would the oceans getting larger get into those places?

>> No.4635746

No, it wud just cause some necessary relocation of cities that are placed in places that will become under sea level, or some clever construction work. It is not a problem humans cannot solve.

On the other hand, the increasingly strong weather fenomena will be a bit of a nuisance.

>> No.4635749

>>4635622
>argentina gone

much of argentina is high above sea level

>> No.4635874

Given what's happened already with greenhouse gases, a rise of 1-2 meters is already going to happen. Coastlines will retreat an average of 3-7 miles inland. Most of the Human race lives in that margin, so it will be the biggest disaster ever faced by Humanity.

Yet we're still bickering about it since the immediate consequences fall upon the rich, whose industries are pumping out all that carbon. The rich control the discussion, which is why I said that 1-2 meter rise is already set to happen.