{"id":126158,"date":"2022-10-27T16:40:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T20:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/?p=126158"},"modified":"2022-10-27T16:40:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T20:40:03","slug":"what-if-all-the-ice-on-earth-melted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/what-if-all-the-ice-on-earth-melted\/","title":{"rendered":"What If All The Ice on Earth Melted"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenbiz.com\/article\/step-earth-day-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-113951 size-medium\" title=\"What If All The Ice on Earth Melted\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Science.jpg?resize=150%2C91&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"What If All The Ice on Earth Melted\" width=\"150\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Science.jpg?resize=150%2C91&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Science.jpg?resize=1024%2C623&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Science.jpg?resize=75%2C46&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Science.jpg?resize=768%2C467&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Science.jpg?w=1444&amp;ssl=1 1444w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Science.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Science Insider<\/a> gives us a look at a <\/span>world where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/article\/big-thaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">all the ice on Earth melted<\/a>. This should be a dose of reality to the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/08\/08\/politics\/climate-change-us-floods-what-matters\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">53% of Americans<\/a> who believe <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/evidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">global warming<\/a> will not harm them<\/strong>. The video shows the dire f<a href=\"https:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/effects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uture of our planet<\/a> as the oceans shallow major cities across the globe.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/VbiRNT_gWUQ\" width=\"610\" height=\"365\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">?<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">?<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">encyclopedia Britannica<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/global-warming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">says<\/a> that <strong>global warming <\/strong>is the increase in the global average surface temperature resulting from the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is caused primarily by <a class=\"md-crosslink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/264699\/worldwide-co2-emissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">air pollution<\/a>. In 2007 the UN forecast that by 2100 global average surface temperatures would increase up to 7.2 \u00b0F. The UN is 90% certain that most of the warming observed over the previous half century could be attributed to greenhouse gas emissions produced by human activities.<\/p>\r\n<h3>Polar ice caps and mountain glaciers melt<\/h3>\r\n<p>Many scientists predict that such an increase in temperature would cause <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/242340\/average-arctic-sea-ice-extent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">polar ice caps<\/a> and mountain glaciers to melt rapidly. This will cause significant changes to the Earth. The changes include raising sea levels, and new patterns and extremes of drought and rainfall. These changes will seriously disrupt food production in certain regions.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.obama.org\/updates\/help-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How you can help Ukraine!<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Related article<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a title=\"Climate change threatens supercomputers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/climate-change-threatens-supercomputers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Climate change threatens supercomputers<\/a>\u00a0(<a title=\"Science\" href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Science<\/a>)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a>\u00a0about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on\u00a0<a class=\"broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rb48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ralph.bach.14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rbach48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video from Science Insider shows what would happen to cities around the world if all the ice on Earth melted due to global warming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3627,32,378,2032,242,179,3443],"class_list":["post-126158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-3627","tag-business","tag-earth","tag-global-warming","tag-nasa","tag-polar-bears","tag-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126158"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129451,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126158\/revisions\/129451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}