Melting all the ice on the planet would transform Coimbra in coastal town

There are more than eight million cubic kilometres of ice on Earth. Some scientists believe that it would take approximately 5,000 years to melt. But, if we continue to increase the levels of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, it is very likely that derretamos all the ice on Earth well before the age of five thousand years. If this happens, the water level of the sea would rise 66 meters and the average temperature of the planet would of 14.4° C to 26.6° c.

National Geographic did a graphical simulation would happen if all the ice on the planet Earth to melt and fuse with the oceans. The conclusion is that the consequences would be devastating to the continental coastal areas.

In the case of Portugal, the entire coastal line would disappear as the algarvian coast. Porto and Lisbon would be completely submerged and cities like Chen would be coastal areas.

The rest Europe, countries like the Netherlands and Denmark would be completely submerged. The United Kingdom would become a kind of patchwork and London would disappear, as well as Venice, in Italy. The waters of the Mediterranean would expand and would swallow the Black Sea and the Caspian.

In South America, a considerable part of the Amazon would be submerged and Australia would win an inland sea and its coastal zone, where most of the population lives, would disappear.

Here's what would happen to Portugal and the rest of the world if the sea level to rise 66 meters. And, in the pictures below, see how each continent, considering the current map (white lines) and the map likely.

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