If all the ice parted ways
The average temperature on Earth will increase from 14 to 26 degrees, and the sea level rise on the planet by about 65 meters, due to global warming if all the ice on the planet melted.
In North America, the water will leave the Atlantic coast of the United States, including Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, much of California.
In South America will be flooded Buenos Aires, Uruguay and Paraguay.
Africa will be largely intact, and most of it will be habitable.
In Egypt, however, because of the rise of the water level in the Mediterranean Sea will become bogged Alexandria and Cairo.
In Europe disappear London, Venice and the Netherlands, most of Denmark.
In Asia, the water will flood the area, which today is home to about 600 million Chinese.
On the face of the earth will be washed coastal areas of Bangladesh and India.
In the center of Australia produced a vast sea, will be flooded vast coastal land, where more than 80% of the population.
Antarctica will be different.
The main cause of global warming is the increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
But ... to all the ice on Earth melted, take about 5 millennia. Maybe a lot less?
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Evacuate Earth
What would we do if the Earth were about to be destroyed? Evacuate Earth examines this terrifying and scientifically plausible scenario by exploring the technologies we would devise to carry as many humans as possible to safety. In Evacuate Earth, we envision a scenario in which a neutron star - tiny and incredibly dense - is flying straight toward our solar system. When it arrives in 75 years, it will pull our planets out of their orbits and shred the planet we live on. Our only choice is band together, create a vast ship and a new drive to power it, and find a new planet in the closest possible solar system to escape to. After a journey of almost a century, the ship will deliver mankind's remnants to our new home, and the human story will begin again.
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