Shocking video shows what Earth would look like if all the ice melted

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People have been left divided over shocking footage which has revealed what will happen if all the ice on Earth melts.

Watching David Attenborough's Frozen Planet on a Sunday evening is the perfect way to get yourself into a sombre and depressed state, perfectly prepared for work on a Monday morning.

However, if you needed a top up dose of grim reality to really open your eyes as to the extent of the climate crisis and the potential dire future of our planet, then this video has you sorted.

Four months ago researchers from the University of Maine and the British Antarctic Survey revealed Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier - which is around the size of Great Britain - is melting at the quickest rate it has ever done over the last 5,500 years.

https://www.unilad.com/news/shocking-video-shows-what-earth-would-look-like-if-all-the-ice-melted-20221018

[asiliveandbreathe]

1. Excuse me, but soup on a piece of ART is just too much to think about..

sarcasm thingy..

This too..

[wnylib]

2. There have been times in the past when earth was ice free.

It could happen again.

[Permanut]

3. Last time, there were probably not a billion and a half cars on the planet.

[wnylib]

4. Last time there were not a billion and a half people on earth.

Nor a million, thousand, hundred, or even just one.

[Permanut]

8. Right on..

Overpopulation is the biggest threat to the survival of homo sapiens, and of the planet.

[wnylib]

9. Well, we don't know why there was a warm

enough climate in the past to have no ice or glaciers, or why the earth cooled later, with alternating warm and cold periods between glacial buildup.

But we do know that the global warmth in the past was associated with increased levels of carbon in the atmosphere and that current technologies contribute to increasing carbon levels at a faster rate than occurred in the past.

If our practices don't change, then we need to prepare for the consequences.

[Pobeka]

5. What's going to be shocking is the massive food shortages that will happen first.

Very little from the media on this. But weather events will take out wheat, corn, soy on scales we have yet to see, but are coming soon.

Australia just had a recent report they expect wheat yields to drop 40%.

This nastiness will start to hit us much harder in the next decade.

[Stallion]

6. What Has DeSantis Done to Florida?

it appears to have disappeared into the Atlantic Ocean

[Easterncedar]

7. Not if. When.