• Question: they say that earth will be full of water and no land very soon, is it true or false?

    Asked by _Game_Name_938:) to Gavin, Karen, Mark, Michel, Roisin on 14 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Mark Kennedy

      Mark Kennedy answered on 14 Nov 2016:

      False (thankfully!).

      If all of the arctic and antarctic ice sheets melted, it wouldn’t be enough to cover all of the land (but it would cover a lot of coastal areas). Here’s one of my favourite science explainers talking about it:

      Here’s a video showing exactly what the Earth would look like after all the Ice melts (Ireland would still be there, but looks very different from today!)

    • Photo: Michel Destrade

      Michel Destrade answered on 16 Nov 2016:

      I hadn’t heard of that possibility! In the 1990s there a movie about exactly that scenario, it was called Waterworld.

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