Despite my previous posts suggesting relative stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheets, I googled SLR on YouTube and this video is by far the most viewed with 8.5 million views. It projects what the earth would look like if all the ice melted which would raise GMSL by 65 m. Considering by 2100 GMSL rise is estimated at 0.26 m - 0.98 m by the IPCC, a 65 m rise is a long way off...
To further investigate check out this link from National Geographic which has a more in depth study. As it shows many major cities would be inundated and hundreds of millions of environmental refugees would be created, however it is possible that had all the ice melted the earth would be at this point uninhabitable due to runaway Global Warming, so don't worry too much as it won't affect us!
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