What Will Happen If Antarctica Melts

Antarctica lost a record 1 million square kilometres of ice an area nearly four times the size of new zealand in the weddell sea in the last five years according to new research.
What will happen if antarctica melts. But the open water revealed as ice melts is darker and absorbs more. And no there are not aliens or nazi bunkers under the ice. Want to see more underworld. This would dramatically reshape the continents and drown many of the.
I forgot to mention that under the. Explore what the world s new. A remake an old video of mine hope this answered some burning curiosities. This happens because the increase in sea ice can make it difficult for penguins to walk.
Loss of ice means more heat is absorbed. But why does it matter how quickly it happens. Albedo is a measure of how well a surface reflects sunlight. If that ice melts it causes sea levels to go up.
That i know of. As national geographic showed us in 2013 sea levels would rise by 216 feet if all the land ice on the planet were to melt. If we keep burning fossil fuels indefinitely global warming will eventually melt all the ice at the poles and on mountaintops raising sea level by 216 feet. What if the sun died.
Scientists estimate that if the entire greenland ice sheet which is roughly three times the size of texas melted sea levels would soar 20. The antarctic ice cap where most of the ice exists has survived much warmer times. Snow covered sea ice has a high albedo and reflects 85 of sunlight. We do not know how much or how quickly this could happen because we do not know exactly how it will happen.
Melting of antarctic sea ice has made one species truly happy.