National Geographic made accurate mapson how Earth would look in the instance all the major planet ’s ice melted . The bad news program : New York , San Francisco , New Orleans , London and other cool city would be all go . The estimable news : the entire state of Florida would vanish .
But that ’s the only good newsworthiness . The rest is all bad : on top of the initial massive economical loss , a coastline change like this would stimulate unprecedented universe migrations across continents , which in turn would generate damage of revelatory proportions — pestilence , war , famine , and death would ensue across the globe .
Take a tone at the full Chinese and Indian coastlines — the most densely dwell areas in the world .
The mountainous Japan search almost integral , but most of its cities will be run . The situation in Europe would be equally ruinous :
Head toNational Geographic for more of these fascinating maps .
reference : JASON TREAT , MATTHEW TWOMBLY , WEB BARR , MAGGIE SMITH , NGM STAFF . ART : KEES VEENENBOS .
SOURCES : PHILIPPE HUYBRECHTS , VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL ; RICHARD S. WILLIAMS , JR . , WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER ; JAMES C. ZACHOS , UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA , SANTA CRUZ ; USGS ; NOAA , ETOPO1 BEDROCK , 1 ARC - MINUTE GLOBAL rest period modeling right of first publication © SEPTEMBER 2013 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
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