What if GREENLAND Melted?

Beneath Greenland's massive ice sheets is a land that's been hidden for millions of years, never before seen by humans. Today we're exploring the geography lost under the glaciers of Greenland!
*Isostatic rebound isn't expected to be too great over Greenland, and instead is greatest over parts of Canada, Scandinavia, and Antarctica, so I didn't include it.
*Also whatever rebound occurred would likely be offset by Antarctica's continued melting.
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[@noahdacheese839]

*What if Greenland melted?* According to world logic, it would become Iceland

[@maxencebarre3833]

I'm hijacking your top comment to tell everyone about the one BIG issue Atlas Pro haven't talked about this subject which is the Global Warming Potential (GWP): all the toxic gas (like methane) contained under the ice today that will be liberated and will inexorably faster the Global Warming. People needs to urgently inform themselves about that because it could be what will kill us all, even in our lifetime.

[@VisboerAnton]

@@maxencebarre3833 Chaotic good

[@thesage1096]

@@VisboerAnton underreated commnet

[@mallorcamapping4274]

Please, don't woooosh me, i just want to explain why greenland is called "green" and not "ice". The vikings who lived in iceland went to greenland because it was more arable since the climate in south greenland was warmer

[@nicholasdalli6303]

@@mallorcamapping4274 I heard they called it "Green" partially as a propaganda tool to get migrants to settle there in the first place. (Also anyone going r/wooosh outside of reddit is just a 12 year old dork.)

[@paddy3002]

there used to be a mile of ice above my head 12000 years ago. I am happy to report that it is no longer there.

[@johnDukemaster]

You are both strong and old!

[@paddy3002]

@@johnDukemaster lol

[@monroevian]

@@paddy3002 ok paddy

[@tonyduncan9852]

And you're in New York.

[@Russo-Delenda-Est]

Same here! Or at least a sizable glacier.

[@geefreck]

If Greenland melted, then it might actually become _green land_

[@alexanderjong2997]

haha

[@jumberman1454]

Just like in the Viking era

[@Crazyarnold12]

Well actually it would become ice land lol

[@thombrick]

Well, one problem... All soil has been scraped away by the ice. There will only be stones left. Not a healthy environment for vegetation.

[@kunstnersjael]

Wrong, there are several hundred kilometers of ice free areas now, as in the norse (viking) era, so still today many plants grow there, up to small trees in Southern Geenland. And by the way; south Greenland is geographically way south of Iceland, so Iceland IS a colder, and darker climate, there compaired to South Greenland

[@TheAstrobleme]

One caveat. With the weight of the ice gone, the land would experience elastic rebound and rise, or decompress, by several metres.

[@StAngerNo1]

It would not only be several meters but several hundret meters, but over a long term. Scandinavia is still in the process of rebound although most of the ice is gone for more than 10.000 years. If the ice melts extremely quickly the rebound would be up to multiple centimetres per year, if not then still a few milimeters. So depending on how quickly the ice melts there will either be no inland sea in the first place or it will be cut off the ocean after a several decades/centuries.

[@StAngerNo1]

@ShadeyBladey Rebound would not be minimal, they weight of the ice is huge and the thickness of the continental crust in greenland is not significantly smaller then elsewhere and even thicker than north canada. The facts said in the video are only correct if the ice melts at an immense rate, but then as I said at least the connection to the ocean gets cut off in a few hundret years at most.

[@StAngerNo1]

@ShadeyBladey I mean I have a masters degree in physical geography and to all of my knowledge the postglacial rebound would be significant enaugh. So I could not be bothered spending time to factcheck that claim, to me it looks like a quick excuse after people pointed it out, but if you find a reliable source about it I will be happy to check it out.

[@deanfirnatine7814]

@ShadeyBladey Wrong, North America is still rebounding from the last Ice Age

[@deanfirnatine7814]

@@StAngerNo1 You are correct sir

[@leaderofthelewishpeople6382]

"A melting of Greenland would cause an estimated rise of 7.2 meters." The Netherlands: "(chuckles) I'm in danger."

[@AXELVISSERS]

Belgium is fucked as well 😅

[@farmervillager8651]

Well boys we did it Florida is no more

[@aneesh2115]

@@AXELVISSERS I'm pretty sure, nothing can drown the Dutch now

[@edthegoomba]

@@farmervillager8651 Well at least something good will come of this I guess

[@derpizzaman1050]

@@farmervillager8651 Ex-Florida Man Arrested for Attempting to Rebuild Lost State out of Alligators

[@NateTheGreat2399]

What if Greenland Melted? Coastal Areas: *heavy breathing*

[@thulyblu5486]

except greenland's coast line, they'll have post glacial rebound (the km deep ice was very heavy... with it gone, the land masses rise.... still happening in Scandinavia since all the ice from the last ice age melted)

[@davidtitanium22]

more like, Coastal Areas: *not breathing* you know, being drowned and all

[@PenduLover07]

Then They will go to Greenland to live there

[@jared305]

I’m literally 3 minutes from the ocean... I’m also settled in an area similar to southern Rhode Island. (chuckles) I’m in danger

[@someoneinthecrowd4313]

Gibson Gold 3 minutes by car or? I'm 1 minute by foot.

[@ProfTydrim]

You forgot a critical point: When the ice melted, Greenland would rise up

[@johncenaplayingstarcraft9580]

like a gamer!

[@vjflow749]

So if you watch from 3:47 onwards, he shows a map(4:02) with red parts that go under water, but because of isostatic rebounding, those would not go under water.

[@Odood19]

Thought this was a joke but learned something new

[@pxlcowpxl6166]

It'd probably be a good idea to calculate how much sea levels would rise if all pole caps and glaciers would melt off, then calculate how much polar landmasses would rise (and how much temperate landmasses would sink), then estimate what the climate then would roughly be and only then predict how each place would look like. I'm pretty interested to know what a greenhouse earth right now would look like.

[@heavyhead30]

read the description bitch

[@caseygreyson4178]

11 months ago: what if we cleared the Amazon? Now: *Amazon Rainforest is burning at an alarming rate* 1 month ago: what would happen if Greenland melted? Now: *Iceland holds funeral for the first glacier lost to climate change*

[@mikepowell8611]

No its not its the dry season this happens every year stop panicking.

[@caseygreyson4178]

Mike Powell No, climate change has drastically affected these dry seasons by making them hotter and drier. This isn’t something that happens every year, this is the hottest it’s ever been and if this was “normal” then Iceland wouldn’t be hosting a funeral for a glacier because it’s the first time EVER that one of their glaciers has melted entirely. But sure, keep on insisting that this is normal. It’s idiots like you who deny climate change that make it difficult for us to restore the planet.

[@t.b.cont.]

Casey Greyson you’re pretty dumb if you think all of the amazon is gonna burn away, all these fires are gonna stop within a month or two. Besides, as someone who comes from a place in Canada that’s on fire all summer, forest fires can be quite healthy for forests and simply trying to prevent them at all causes only delays the inevitable. It’s not the trees that burn but the undergrowth, all the decaying plant matter and various shrubs and bushes that live underneath the canopy. Trees themselves are surprisingly resistant to fires.

[@Unberable]

Ara Era Forest fires can be healthy, but they’re not part of the Amazon’s ecosystem

[@kruse8888]

Its mostly farmland burning. NASA said that the fires isnt unusual and actually below the average. Even NYT ran a story about it.

[@elite2404]

Well boys, we did it. Dutch people are no more 🐧🐧🐧🐧

[@nicholasdalli6303]

Damn you, you made me laugh.

[@catattack885]

*Dutch Penguins: OH FUCK*

[@erik2811]

Dutch people just grow taller and survive.

[@SplitWasTaken]

@@erik2811 the year is 2080. Dutch people are now 200 metres tall with giraffe necks and artificial circulation systems

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

@@SplitWasTaken LMAO

[@roadhigher]

Greenland: *Once the Ice melts becomes one of the most mineral rich and desired pieces of dirt on the planet Denmark: *STONKS*

[@safir2241]

Hahahahahah nice

[@overbeb]

USA: Time to bring some freedom to Greenland.

[@stephencrompton4352]

@@overbeb "You are being liberated. Please do not resist."

[@dallyh.2960]

Denmark like "Greenlandic self-government referendum? Never heard of it"

[@r.o.b8728]

overbeb sorry but were in nato sooooooooo

[@eraklishristodoulou6959]

Isostatic rebound is the geological term for the rising of the land that would occur after the melting of the glacial ice which was previously “weighing the land down”. Hard to say how much this would effect where future shorelines would end up without more info

[@roboactive]

Denmark: *_S T O I N K S_*

[@aoaoaaoaoao889]

Denmark: *S I N G K*

[@cinamontoast2555]

@@aoaoaaoaoao889 Denmark: **BlUrUbLMlbrlbrllb**dies** (Denmark would sink in this scenario

[@adly.prastya]

*S T I N K S*

[@detectiveelectro2372]

Denmark Let be viking again.

[@zeddy4253]

@@cinamontoast2555 not all of Denmark but a large chonk of it will be

[@AtParmentier]

2:44 That helicopter on the ground gives a good sense of scale.

[@tsogobauggi8721]

Maybe it is a toy helicopter. ;)

[@doggonemess1]

WOAH, good catch! I didn't even see it.

[@ronin_h730]

Damn I didn't see it... When i did... *Surprised Pikachu face*

[@thatundeadlegacy2985]

What would happen to the ocean currents? this is extremely important.

[@Doberdobax]

Watch the last videooooo

[@maximevanbokkem8789]

According to my geography teacher, all that water that comes into the ocean if greenland melted would result in the Gulf stream stopping, making Europe cool down

[@maple494]

it's not a fact but it's a potential scenario that could happen

[@topiheimola69]

That’d be great, I’d be perfectly fine going back to my childhood temperatures here in Finland.

[@eVill420]

@@topiheimola69 FR, I've been feeling like Finland has gotten A LOT warmer while I've been alive, and I'm 19. I feel like winters would end almost 3 weeks later when I was little

[@topiheimola69]

@@eVill420 Same. I'm 21. Winters are both warmer and shorter, although this one has been pretty good apart from a few +1 celsius days.

[@eVill420]

@@topiheimola69 even this one was a lot warmer than they used to be, -30C weather used to be pretty common where I live, but this year it barely reached that for a few days. we just happened to get a ridiculous amount of snow so that kind of extended the winter (and to be honest that might also be a symptom of climate change). it's almost impossible to believe that just 30 years ago it was fully possible for temperature to drop below 0 in june. Finland is really close to the arctic so our temperatures are warming a lot faster than in other places. Luckily, it was so cold before that it's not very destructive for us.

[@chrishsmith451]

At least it's name would make sense

[@IdRatherNotHaveAHandleThankYou]

Karis Greynland.

[@ethanz1938]

@Karis Blyatland

[@Whatever_dude]

Shuckle Wuckle was called Greenland by the vikings because at that time was mainly green not ice and snow

[@babc4323]

@@Whatever_dude thats wrong. Iceland was always the greener of the two and they were named the opposite of the way the landscape was to discourage people from going to Iceland. It was to trick people because if something was called Greenland and you'd never seen it before, sounds like a nice place you'd wanna go see, right? and Iceland would sound cold and barren if you had no idea what it looked like, right?

[@theyoshi202]

It still wouldn’t be green, it’d be gray and brown lol

[@Flugmorph]

you forgot to mention how much greenland would rise up due to the heavy glaciers melting.

[@NoName-ze4qn]

But sea level is rising at the same time... Does it make differences?

[@Flugmorph]

@@NoName-ze4qn of course

[@DjJooze]

Lmao 💀

[@Micklemoose]

Isostatic rebound takes a lot longer than the melting is likely to take. Scandanavia is still rising and it has been 12000 years.

[@rawsaucerobert]

@@Micklemoose I think he might have ignored it for that reason. The rebound takes so long, on human scales it might as well be forever.

[@KiwiBird_04]

Atlas: "Iceland is the largest island on Earth..." Madagascar: Am I a joke to you?

[@paulpursell4177]

Australia?

[@mayankkumar4161]

@saeed alhomsi Island Continent

[@Merluch]

Is 2 times larger than madagascar

[@ItszKD]

New Guinea is largest

[@xy-xj5gm]

What if Greenland ice sheet doubled in thickness?

[@ninjacactus3553]

A thiccer greenland

[@angelicend]

7 meters down? thats almost enough to expose the temple off the coast of japan.

[@zribo5063]

*THICCER*

[@senorwoofers9394]

A thicc one

[@pepperpotato5562]

Then we solved global warming..?

[@davidmc407]

I watched this when high and I swear to God it was one of the best things I have ever watched

[@justinreid2422]

Thanks be to God 🙏

[@oneshothunter9877]

You should try watching it 'live' while high 😉 - you'd go berserk 😁

[@noeraldinkabam]

Greenland will never melt. The ice on Greenland is a different story.

[@harryholden795]

Noeraldin Kabam genuinely interested in what you mean by this, could you elaborate?

[@I-should-go-outside]

That's what you think once the "device "is completed I will be able to melt whatever I want. I'm going to start with the canary islands. Mwahahahaha

[@Kludgzenjammer]

LOGIC

[@Sausagehandlebars]

Best comment lol

[@liamwalton4183]

**Greenland becomes a supervolcano and melts away** **Surprised pikachu face**

[@mastermuffles7097]

Now I'd like to see a video about the combined effects of both Greenland and Antarctica melting.

[@mariatowers6197]

Me too, and I would love to see what the (drop in) sea levels and subsequently lands would look like after BOTH Antarctica and Greenland have lost all their ice AND both have totally REBOUND (risen by meters above today's elevations).

[@jazeyon3330]

I'm binge watching all the What if videos and I'm having a great time xD

[@naveenraj2008eee]

Hi atlas pro Another interesting topic.. Congratulation for crossing 300000 subs... 👍 to your work... Thanks for another great video...🙏😊

[@MrEaa75]

You have to remember the amount of ice above Greenland is actually pressing the crust beneath into the mantel. This means, if the ice above Greenland melts, the ground would rise probably something like 200m like what have happens in Scandinavia after the last ice age.

[@rarusvitae835]

Check the description

[@bruceh92]

Good vid thanks - many interesting observations and predictions that make sense - like moving to Greenland!

[@somerandomguy___]

Proper title for the video: what if Greenland actually stands up to its name

[@superdust2469]

*UNLIKE ICELAND*

[@jpp9876]

Greenland's name was a marketing ploy from the get go.

[@jpp9876]

One reason the glaciers are receding is many are not getting the amounts of snowfall that replenishes them.

[@annoyed707]

It does, in summer, in the right places.

[@jpp9876]

I knew a guy who was stationed there during ww2. He said they would play baseball and if the wind changed and came out of the north. It would quickly get very cold.

[@tsogobauggi8721]

Hey, I hoping for this video. This is something I have been thnking about. Greenland without the ice looks very interesting and... cool. :)

[@tsogobauggi8721]

And the same about your profile pictures. :)

[@liamwalton4183]

I always wonder just how different history would have been if things like this happened. Imagine the whole world was the same temperate climate. The Greenland islands would be a HUGE trading power

[@jimychi]

Summer vacation :D

[@oneworld1563]

This is no game, sadly. The melting of the ice caps are gonna disrupt weather systems, food production, water supply and societal stability globally within the coming decade, and severely. We are in for a collapse of the current civilization one way or the other, but we may still have a chance of transforming it to a sustainable one. That would require an unprecedented global social movement for climate and social justice. Now is the time to act, or perish.

[@viktorsigurdarson]

You forgot to talk about glacial rebound

[@multiflash2022]

2:44 there is a mini helicopter on the ice lul

[@multiflash2022]

@@skeletons2500 drone

[@bobyoung241]

I don't think its mini.

[@Bobbie_1999]

Just a normal-sized helicopter, the one where people could fit in.. :P

[@UserrandomGamer]

@@Bobbie_1999 no its a mini helicopter in the ground lol

[@superdust2469]

Lol that just ice shaping i saw it loL

[@zsgxx9736]

I come from Greenland🇬🇱 and this is so informing, thanks for the educational video😃

[@pualamnusantara7903]

The Netherlands : **NOPE**

[@PGraveDigger1]

The Netherlands will just flip off the water and the water will retreat in shame.

[@danriis]

My wife comes from Greenland. She is laughing how you say the Greenland names :D Good video by the way. :)

[@soleaguirre100]

excellent information!!! Thanks 👌🏼

[@seancassidy4812]

This is a well done video. No alarmism or made up stuff. I like it.

[@junahmad08]

Greenland melted: Exists Europe: Its a free real estate.

[@itsfinnickbitch63]

denmark already owns greenland

[@Inuitman]

No thanks

[@Inuitman]

@@itsfinnickbitch63 nah

[@julianneheindorf5757]

The way he talks about Greenland, he makes it sound like it’s an empty place ready for any mineral hungry nation to grab it. As a resident of Greenland, I resent that vision. Although our population is small, about 56000 people living mostly on the Southwestern edge of island, we are a fully modern society with an autonomous government. Nuuk, the capital city has a population of +18000 people. Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark and people in Greenland are Danish citizens.

[@marcobenjamincortzenhegh8063]

Jaer

[@muckarragnarknytnavesdotte7000]

vad förväntar du dig från en amerikan? De vet inte alls hur andra människor lever i världen....

[@mexa_t6534]

I mean he is just stating the facts, not pushing any agenda.

[@martin8uq]

Brilliant! Subbed.

[@ednagettobed5793]

Glaciers melt every summer. How does that compare tonnage-wise with the amount of snow falling in Greenland during the freezing months?

[@BlackViperMWG]

The glacial growth is not keeping up with glacial loss. One glacier is growing, but all other are not.

[@peepeetrain8755]

i guess the freezing months won't be as cold and shorter than average and the melting/summer times are hotter and longer so the melting will be quicker than it freezing by a long run

[@skuncle3036]

Sick video!!! I'm definitely using melted Greenland as the setting of my new D&D campaign: Dystopian future where the players are settlers in Greenland's untamed (and probably barren) wilderness

[@safir2241]

Can I join? My character is a Shy wood elf

[@Plainsman1300]

Go back in time to the Viking settlement of GREENland around 900ad , when the seasons supported agriculture. This lasted until around 1400ad, when cooling shortened the growing season, and the Vikings abandoned the GREENland settlements.

[@leebaker2588]

Nice job here and on the Antartica piece.

[@pamelal7487]

I just found your videos today and I'm slowly working my way through them. I must say I like them very much. I did have one comment though, you did not take into consideration the isostatic rebound. I don't think, after all is said and done, that Greenland would become three large islands. Perhaps in the short term, yes, but the rebound would lift the inlets above sea level. Thank you for the videos.

[@pahtar7189]

When you compare island sizes the new Greenland islands use the new sea level whereas the existing islands use existing sea levels. You'd really want to compare the size of Honshu, Sumatra, etc. after the sea had risen several meters. For some islands this will make a big difference.

[@youreworthyourweightinavoc7189]

good point

[@PerTrygveMyhrer]

If you remove the ice on Greenland, the land that was under ice would start rising so you might still have in time one big island.

[@ronjon7942]

Given the rebound estimates of Antarctica and the 2000m thick Greenland ice sheet, I’d certainly think it would uplift by at least 1-2m. However, that rebound will take thousands of years after the hypothetical melt. For example, the North American region surrounding the Great Lakes is STILL uplifting from the last ice age. I did not notice that he accounted for this in the video.

[@nicksvetelj9252]

great video. keep it up!

[@grindupBaker]

Thanks. Some good info for my notes. The +7 m SLR affect at 4:05 looks exaggerated to me based on the elevations contours shown by pictorial and the loss of gravity pull to Greenland after the ice has gone

[@koootoshidayo]

*What if Greenland melted?* "Finally, Jakarta is forever gone"

[@brassinstruments4384]

Ayy fellow indonesian

[@brassinstruments4384]

@*S U C T I O N* at this point you taking us back to the colonies is just gonna give your country more problems trust me you are better without

[@martijn9568]

@@brassinstruments4384 We know😅

[@Debre.]

7:32 That's the Lofoten Islands in Norway.

[@Debre.]

@Cheater500k I just don't get why he would use footage of some random island in Norway in a video about Greenland.

[@Debre.]

@Cheater500k That didn't really look like Greenland but ok.

[@catattack885]

*It works if you don't know where it is*

[@Debre.]

Why the fuck are you people taking this so goddamn seriously?

[@lucidcatnap]

@@Debre. The video is about how Greenland _would_ look if all the ice melted. It's quite difficult to film that _on_ Greenland when the ice is still there. The ice-free, barren islands around the Arctic ocean - including Lofoten - are the best ways of picturing how it might look. That's why these pictures are used.

[@platorocks842]

Hi AP. Just caught up with this one. Great video. Well researched and presented. I haven't read all the comments so I may be going over old ground but here's an issue that wasn't canvassed in the video and I'm interested in what you have to say about it. The melting of the ice sheet would decrease the effect of the gravitational anomaly that such masses produce. In effect, sea levels measured at the sea shore would likely drop as the sideways gravitational pull of the ice cap on the surrounding seas drops AND this effect would likely override the rise in sea level due to there being more water in the oceans. This would have a material effect on what areas of sub-aerial land remain.

[@ronjon7942]

The sideways pull of Mt. Everest is measurable, but small relative to the pull towards the center of the earth. My unscientific guess would be a sea level change from that loss of a force vector of fractions of a centimeter to a centimeter. Edit: okkkkk, so I guess I may have underestimated physics. The ice sheet weighs 3,000 trillion tons, and as you suspected, sea levels would indeed drop along the adjacent coasts - estimated to be somewhere between 20 and 50 METERS!!! This is according to a 2016 article by Jerry Mitrovica on the online Harvard Magazine. Moreover, this effect extends out to some 2000km, to where the sea level change ‘zeroes’ out. This displacement will seek to raise sea levels (amount indeterminate from article) outside this 2000 If Greenland’s ice sheet melted entirely, sea level would fall 20 to 50 meters at the adjacent coast.

[@libertyemoji306]

I love this channel💓

[@R9ZSPACE]

When you're showing the landmass after melting,,,do you also figure in the compression release of the land after the ice melts. Once the weight of the ice is gone an considering the rise of the sea level maybe there would be less Islands an more landmass. Great Video 👍👍👍 R. Everett Fadden

[@ronjon7942]

Given the rebound estimates of Antarctica and the 2000m thick Greenland ice sheet, I’d certainly think it would uplift by at least 1-2m. However, that rebound will take thousands of years after the hypothetical melt. For example, the North American region surrounding the Great Lakes is STILL uplifting from the last ice age. I did not notice that he accounted for this in the video.

[@katariina3319]

Video topic request: Isostatic rebound & Ancylus Lake

[@mikemcconeghy4658]

Fascinating to think there is such an amazing canyon buried beneath all that ice.

[@oofero3476]

you are making it sound like a good thing

[@BJETNT]

I'm very glad I live in northern Idaho at 2500 FT elevation.looks like I might have beachfront property in the next hundred years.

[@MartinChemnitz]

Thank you for an interesting video. You miss one important aspect of the consequence of melting ice in Greenland; when the ice melts the land is no longer under the hugh pressure of the weight of the ice and it will rise. Slowly but steady, like a sponge where you remove a rock. The land of Greenland as well as the northern part of North America is still rising after the disappearance of the ice from the last ice age. All over Greenland you can find old coast lines on land, further away from the current coast line.

[@caiolucas8257]

Very interesting, it's shape if melted would be badass, a country with a lake in it's interior almost like a geographical ring. I would love a video on the Namib desert.

[@dnickaroo3574]

More ice melted in Greenland in July 2019 than has usually been melting in one year. With ice melting there has been attempts at farming, but rainfall is very low. The Arctic Icecap is expected to melt completely in mid-Summer by 2021 to 2022 -- this will likely increase the rate of melting of Greenland's ice.

[@Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo]

totall bullshit. Actually last winter the land ice on greenland expanded more than ever before.

[@markwierzbicki5307]

Not according to Masie on both points! According to them the amount of land ice has been increasing (over all) for the last 5 years. Also only the land ice would add extra volume to the sea level. As ice takes up more volume than water, if you melted the sea ice it is likely you would see sea levels drop. Unless I missed this point in his argument he was factoring in all the ICE ( both land and see). Additionally if Greenland was to totally melt so would the Artic ( which is sea ice) which would cause the sea levels to drop due to the reduction in volume.

[@sherrykumar3160]

If Greenland melted it would actally be green land

[@Lonewolf0161]

Just as it was before when the Vikings lived there. They had crops and livestock.

[@grip2617]

And with a higher level of CO2 it would even be greener .

[@geomochi4904]

I think someone copied your. Comment

[@sherrykumar3160]

WHAT who did it

[@TheJsaroukos]

sherry kumar me ;)

[@gitmoholliday5764]

glaciers becoming darker by dirt only works if we assume there won't be any fresh white snow falling on that "dark" surface

[@annoyed707]

Scroll down for dozens of people who think they are the ONLY one posting that Greenland would actually be green.

[@paulhusby8344]

Wow! Well Done!

[@andrewfrumkin9632]

Wouldn’t the land rise without the weight of the ice?

[@justinwilson7772]

Maybe but dunno

[@roevhaal578]

Yes it would, I'm from the High Coast in Sweden which used to be covered in 3km of ice which is pretty similar to Greenland. Here the crust was pressed down 1000m. By the time the ice was gone there had already been a rebount of 500m and since then it has continued to rebound making the former coastline 286m above sea level. It took around 10,000 years for the ice to melt and it's been 10,000 years since then. The faster you melt the ice the more extreme the rebound will be, here the rebound peaked at 10cm per year but if Greenland's ice is lost during the course of a 2k year period instead of a 10k year period it will surely far exceed that. I find it extremely difficult to believe that Greenland would lose it's ice without atleast 200m of post glacial rebound which would put nearly all of the bedrock above sea level. There wouldn't be an inland sea at all but they might very well get the 2nd largest lake.

[@cameronwhorf9546]

One question: Because Greenland was under a glacier ice sheet for hundreds of thousands of years, when it melts the land mass will begin to decompress and actually rise up multiple meters. I don’t know how many but this is pretty important and I’m not sure why you didn’t talk about it. Other wise good video...

[@deceptionception]

To be fair the ice on Greenland represents only 6,7% of the world's fresh water differently than 70% of Antarctica's so i don't think it would matter alot. Or you can just take the number of how much Antarctica's going to rise from the other video and divide it up to 6-7 however there are many different variables so you won't get perfect results but it's something to start off if you're curious.

[@AO-xc8mz]

@@deceptionception that would only make sense if the greenland ice sheet was the same size as the antarctic one but less thick, which is not the case.

[@deceptionception]

@@AO-xc8mz yes that's why i said there are many variables. That's also why i think the guy in the video decided not to mention this. Maybe i might be wrong or he has just forgotten about it. Who knows.

[@andrewstout5400]

This is actually one of the factors which may be leading to GRACE's mal-reporting of Greenland's Ice density- evidently, an independent teem of scientists discovered the GRACE team wasn't calculating for that. Heller cites/ brings that up. I noticed that GRACE doesn't agree with Altimetry Satellites. www.theclimaterecord.com/greenland-and-smb

[@annoyed707]

He did mention it, and so have many others in the comments, which neither you nor they read.

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

We've already had several instances of meltwater being ejected from Greenland in the last month, after the traditional melt season should have ended. There was an earthquake that released a vast under ice lake and broke through the fast ice. And little noticed is that Nares Strait, which drains the Lincoln Sea, is still open and moving floes at almost 10 km/day.

[@antarepr]

very educating and entertaining.

[@fabrizzioantoniodominguezp349]

Could you make a video about the worst temperatures for civilizations where surprisingly a civilization developed?. I think it would be interesting to watch.

[@Felishamois]

Also, average temperatures are ok I guess, but the biggest number of average days a year where it's 18° is probably more useful

[@Pwn3dbyth3n00b]

Considering this is the channel where I learnt about Doggerland and isostatic rebounding (your first video on the channel) it's kinda weird how you don't mention it with Greenland with all that ice melting and that HUGE amount of weight removed from the land. I'm pretty sure more of the land would be exposed when the land rebounds and rises up.

[@varana]

A lot later, though. Rebounding is slow, so it will take a long time before it has a visible effect on its coastline.

[@deziograff]

Great research

[@steve-usmcvet8934]

By melting the oceans would be less salty making evaporation easier. More clouds would form. The Earth get colder, more snow falls, and a new ice age begins.

[@user-is9qe9pe6d]

The natural cycle

[@magnusorn7313]

except by the end of it most species will have died, great

[@Dekanos93]

Keep in mind isostatic rebound AND sea level rise from Antarctica’s ice having melted as well, realistically.

[@mariatowers6197]

I would love to see what the (drop in) sea levels and subsequently lands would look like after BOTH Antarctica and Greenland have lost all their ice AND both have totally REBOUND (risen by meters above today's elevations).

[@jsmariani4180]

It's a little silly to imagine Greenland's ice melting without also expecting a large melting in Antarctica, which of course would further raise sea levels.

[@aarondavidson6409]

.... this aged quickly

[@williammaddock9179]

Here's a challenge for you: a double terrestrial planet in the goldilocks zone of a sun-like star, the larger body being slightly larger than earth and the smaller being a bit larger than Mars, the pair co-orbiting stably just outside the Roche Limit from each other. I have some thoughts about what that would end up looking like, but it would be super to hear your thoughts.

[@onethirst63]

I live high in the Rocky Mountains, and I currently have six feet of snow in my yard with nine foot drifts. This is typical. Every spring as the snow melts the dust particles don't melt and in April we have these very ugly brown snow drifts everywhere and what you said is true; it starts melting SIGNIFICANTLY FASTER when it gets like that.

[@DaveZiffer]

I guess we could discuss all sorts of insane propositions. Greenland actually added a trillion tons of ice during the winters between 2016 and 2018. Check out the surface mass balance published by the Dutch Meteorological Institute. Why don't we discuss that?

[@peterwysochanski534]

Sins of omission. Media is in the bag. electroverse.net/younger-dryas-rewind-and-repeat/

[@froggychair272]

Thank you for using the metric system

[@piercoucy]

You are not considering the bounce back effect that will come from the ice not weighing anymore on Greenland. Something similar is happening to Scandinavia which is still rising after the end end of the last glaciation.

[@mateuspado]

One aspect you totally forget to analyze is the phenomenal when huge ice sheets melts the earth crust have a tendency to elevated, as we seen it happens in Scandinavia and the north of the British isles

[@gosoloph]

What if Greenland Melted? It will be called "Greener"land

[@mr.atlantist0263]

@@knarf58 but they had no more ice

[@hddiamonds]

Mr. Atlantist02 r/woooosh Iceland is green and Greenland is icy. That’s the joke god damnit

[@captaincrooked9051]

Question: Lets say I am some sort of supervillain, wanting to melt the ice? Would nukes do the job? How many?

[@grindupBaker]

Depends on the size of the nuke. Generally, with the bigger nukes you'd need fewer of them. I'm not fully qualified on building nukes though so you should check that with an expert.

[@Merluch]

350, if all are 200kt strong, but is not ideal cuz it will leave many radioactive lakes and ratiation

[@ashraile]

its not Greenland, but in Antarctica you could nuke Antarctica every day for a year and it would have barely any effect on the amount of ice that melts. So divide Antarctica's size by Greenlands for the ratio and you'll get the picture of how many nukes it will take

[@Hallows4]

Nat Geo ran an article a bunch of years ago (don't remember when or even the name) about how Greenlanders were already using climate change to their advantage. Since the melting ice is revealing more land and producing tons of runoff, farmers were able to increase their yields without any complex irrigation methods. The plan was to gradually reduce reliance on imported foodstuffs, something that warmer Iceland has already been doing for a while with geothermal energy. Also, I don't know if you realized this, but "Greenlake" is kind of an unintentional reference to Holes by Louis Sacher (as in "Camp Green Lake").

[@oldmikie]

Nice work

[@thatboydaniel6655]

More people to go to England. Plague.inc: *HEAVY BREATHING*

[@halyoalex8942]

I just came here from the antarctica melting video and DANG HIS VOICE GOT DEEP

[@barrysalisbury6769]

Fair go , What about Australia the biggest island YES or NO ?

[@kendallpowell9502]

No. Australia is a continent.

[@dalecox5928]

The Island Continent.

[@spiceymibba8078]

Yes

[@spiceymibba8078]

Australia is a island not a continent. Australia is in the continent of oceana

[@nahh5]

Australia doesn't exist bruh

[@trytinz8256]

the fresh water from this melting would cool the oceans to point of actually triggering an ice age

[@alaskanbullworm5500]

What if you moved Greenland’s landmass to Hawaii’s current location. I’d be curious about the flora and fauna that would exist there, and how humans would eventually settle it.

[@lello333]

think that we lost in one month more then 200 gigatons of ice, in 1 *ONE* MONTH... nice...

[@giuniral]

They wasted the opportunity to call that canyon underneath all that ice... "The Green Canyon"

[@prof.simonen.brandao7699]

Hi, Thanks for the great videos. Do you have the references used for your videos listed somewhere?I am specially interested in this one here and the one from Antarctica.

[@johnotm]

Would the land in the center eventually rebound and rise up like in Antarctica?

[@monkeypie8701]

with Antarctica you didn't factor in sea level rise and in this one you didn't factor in glacial rebounding

[@12oshinko]

Totally had to look up Lake Baikal to verify the largest lake. Caspian by surface area, Baikal by volume.

[@frankmoore7292]

When Greenland melts overnight I'll replace the fire alarms in my tenants' igloos.

[@tobygoodguy4032]

Harvest the ice. Dump it in the Sahara.

[@Inuitman]

No

[@GothamKnight073]

"Greenland is the largest island". Australia: *Am I a joke to you?*

[@acyllia5311]

Just saying, Australia is not a island, but a continent.

[@In_Bread]

ThirdPartyEJ Jul it’s an island and a country too

[@acyllia5311]

Infinite Abyss i forgot to include that it’s both

[@Leftatalbuquerque]

@@acyllia5311 Yeah - and Pluto was a planet...

[@acyllia5311]

Leftatalbuquerque 😔

[@fiddley]

Sounds great! I'll take it.

[@amelliamendel2227]

There be a new usable land mass, sounds like a win to me

[@David82762]

Now amazon is burning as you said last yeah... I am expecting what will happen to Greenland next year.

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

The smoke cools the Earth, but the loss of 20% of the Earth's Oxygen production is a problem... combined with the plastic, pollution, and radiation harming the oceans, and ongoing deforestation, Oxygen production on Earth is taking significant losses. We live in a biosphere and dependent on our O2 producers. There is no 'Planet B' to escape to when Earth runs out of air.

[@kubortthedane9487]

There was a wildfires this year on Greenland

[@Unberable]

SeaJay Oceans The Amazon doesn’t produce 20% of the Earth’s oxygen, that’s a myth

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

@@Unberable It's ok, you are not allow to know the Earth is dying... just go back to sleep. You never saw this, it doesn't matter anyway. There 's nothing you can do about it. So, go watch some videos of cats or something... just, just forget about it... sleep. sleep. sleep. obey. conform. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2q4aquJadmbrrc

[@Unberable]

Do some research before you say things like that www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/why-amazon-doesnt-produce-20-percent-worlds-oxygen/