Top 10 SCARY Things That Will Happen When All The Ice Melts

What Would Happen If ALL THE ICE In The World MELTED?

according to a recent report by the UN our oceans are in big trouble much of the world's fresh water is locked up in ice caps at the poles but thanks to a warming climate that ice is melting and it's melting a lot faster than we previously thought Arctic sea ice is down almost 13 percent per decade since 1979 and this year's low was tied for the lowest year on record if we continue business, as usual, our worlds is gonna look very very different and this isn't something that's gonna happen a couple of hundred years down the line this is gonna happen within our lifetimes here.

top 10 scary things that will happen if all the ice melts

if you care about the future of our planet and subscribe for spicy news updates and saucy lists that will probably give you anxiety our planet is blue much of the earth consists of ocean covers 71% of the earth less than 1% of the Earth's water is fresh water and a large chunk of that freshwater is locked up in ice caps and glaciers did you know that 99% of all the living space on planet Earth exists within the ocean well according to a landmark report on the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate which was backed by the United Nations our planet is gonna be a very scary place if the ice continues to melt.

10, warming oceans

marine heatwaves are becoming a lot more common and a lot more intense warm water might be nice in a bathtub but it's most definitely bad for our oceans why coral reefs and other ecosystems we're already seeing huge coral reefs like the Great Barrier Reef in Australia experiencing coral bleaching coral bleaching is one of the biggest signs that our oceans are warming up without coral much of the marine life that lives in those coral reefs will die and it's not just coral reefs that will be affected by this kelp forests provide shelter and they nurture sea life of all kinds but kelp forests are also seeing a sharp decline and they will continue to decline if the oceans keep warming up and this means extinctions rising temperatures starve the upper layers of the ocean of oxygen which suffocates marine life.

9, acidic oceans

as our ocean war so too will their acidity more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as a result of greenhouse gas emissions means the carbon dioxide will end up in the ocean we don't notice this because it's happening underwater but the ocean is losing oxygen and becoming far more acidic as it's warming up at the surface that is preventing cooler waters with nutrients from circulating in according to Nathan Bend off of the University of Tasmania worst-case scenario the world's looking at a 95 percent increase in the total acidity of the oceans what was once a lush rich ocean full of life will become a wasteland with virtually no life present except for a few different types of crustaceans and small fish that have adapted to the harsh conditions at a DMR list.

acidic oceans

8, less fish and marine animals

the UN report states that marine life populations are likely to decrease by 15% and fisheries are expected to catch far less 21 to 24% less fish by the end of the century guess who eats a lot of those marine animals humans a lot of humans do some areas of the globe will still have marine life especially in colder areas like the Arctic, in fact, animal populations in Arctic seas are expected to increase but that's only because they'll have nowhere else to go the price of fish will also definitely rise as it becomes more scarce coming in at seven.

less fish and marine animals 

7, more intense weather

not a fan of hurricanes I think that goes without saying but guess what hurricanes are only gonna get worse as ice melts and oceans warm weakened ocean currents will disrupt the circulation of those ocean currents which in turn makes weather more severe category 6 hurricanes will likely be added to the scale indicating the possibility of faster wind speeds over 180 miles per hour more rain and even slower-moving hurricanes and the worst part of a hurricane is a storm surge, in fact, storm surges account for most of the deaths during a hurricane storm surges are only gonna get worse as the planet warms up the ice melts and the sea levels rise but more on that later in at six.

more intense weather

6, worst El Nino's

tagging on in my laughs coin as the surface temperature of the water warms up El Ninos will get worse El Nino is a climate pattern that happens when the sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean rise above normal levels as I said before a warmer ocean affects the climate of our entire planet and some of the communities that will be the worst affected are the ones in developing countries that rely on their own agriculture and fishing the people who live within those developing countries will experience food shortages which will lead to starvation.

worst El Nino's

5, not enough water

a ton of our water supplies come from melting glaciers and ice caps as I said before much of the fresh water on Earth is locked up in ice I actually grew up in a city where the reservoir was directly linked to mountain rivers glaciers are natural reservoirs they store water in the winter and release it in the summer but if the ice melts many places that rely on that glacial freshwater will be pretty much-screwed rivers that nourish cities will dry up and there won't be enough water to go around and four 

not enough water

4, rising sea levels

the recent report by the UN found that sea levels are rising three point six millimeters a year which is two and a half times faster than they were rising between the years 1900 to 1999 because sea ice in Greenland and Antarctica is melting rising sea levels lead to flooded cities it stated in the report that sea levels could rise by an entire meter by the year 2100 by the Year 2300 the sea levels could rise by more than five meters coastal cities like New York will become submerged of course the skyscrapers won't have emerged but up to a meter of the ground will maybe they'll turn New York into like one giant Venice where you have to take a gondola to work instead of an uber other coastal cities will experience a huge flood every single year that normally only takes place every hundred years cities like Los Angeles Miami Honolulu Singapore Barcelona Sydney Lima Bangkok and Manila. 

 rising sea levels

3, Islands will disappear

off the face of the planet if all the ice melts the sea levels will rise to the point that islands that have a very low sea level, to begin with, will disappear do you like Hawaii yeah Honolulu has already experienced severe sea-level rise so much so that they're redesigning aspects of the city like the rail system to be elevated many parts of the world will become uninhabitable scientists are saying that many areas of the world especially island nations will be uninhabitable and that's directly due to climate change and melting ice getting close now are you scared yet a net.

Islands will disappear

2, a decline in human health

how does a warming ocean affect human health well there's been outbreaks of Vibrio poisoning that causes gastrointestinal illness the Brio poisoning is directly attributed to shellfish living in warm water fish and other marine life make up a huge part of people's diet in many parts of the world especially parts of the world close to the ocean the report states that for many places a decline in fish distribution will cause a 20 to 30 percent decrease in nutria intake for humans.

a decline in human health

1, scariest result of the ice caps melting is disease locked up in permafrost

which is frozen soil suddenly coming back to life there are a thousand-year-old diseases and viruses frozen and ice caps and permafrost that have laid dormant for centuries sure we have antibiotics for many of the viruses that are currently circulating but we most certainly do not have antibiotics for bacteria and viruses that have been locked up in permafrost for thousands of years back in 2016 in a remote part of the Siberian tundra in the Arctic Circle a twelve-year-old boy died and 20 more were hospitalized the reason anthrax it's believed that a deer died from anthrax around 75 years ago and its carcass was in permafrost during a heatwave in 2016 the permafrost thawed exposing the reindeer corpse and the anthrax it was infected with the virus got into the soil and water and then into the food 2000 reindeer became infected and then so did humans that's just one example as the earth gets warmer the ice melts so too will permafrost which is the perfect place for bacteria that's even a million years old for a main dormant.

disease locked up in permafrost