What If Our Oceans Froze?

News Desk

Due to global environmental changes, the intensity of every type of weather is increasing worldwide. Due to environmental changes, many countries around the world are also facing large-scale natural disasters.

Many countries around the world are currently experiencing severe cold, and in some cases, temperatures have dropped to record lows. As we know, about 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface is water, but what if all the oceans froze.

According to the Science Focus website, less than one percent of this 70 percent water is used by humans, animals, and plants because 97 percent of ocean water is salty, which is unusable.

30 per cent of the Earth is covered by glaciers or ice, but have you ever wondered what would happen if all the Earth’s oceans froze, and what would be the impact on human life? Will humans survive?

Effects on Global Trade: Since 80 per cent of the world’s global trade is carried out by ships, there will be a profound impact on global trade; besides, half of the world’s oil is transported from one country to another by sea. Due to the trade shutdown, oil prices will skyrocket which will destroy the global economy.

Unemployment: About 56 million people working in fishing or aquaculture industries will suddenly become unemployed.

Plant Organisms Eill Die Out: Ice is the best reflector of sunlight; algae or moss grows in frozen waters and remains dormant under the ice and frozen waters that fall from the sky in winter. When summer arrives and the ice melts, the algae spring up, releasing fine particles like red blooms.

Greenery Will Disappear: As all the oceans freeze, temperatures will drop, plants will die due to lack of water, which will decrease carbon dioxide (CO2), but volcanoes will help produce carbon dioxide. But it can take millions of years to warm the earth and melt the ice.

There Will Be No Rain: Water from the upper surface of the ocean continues to spread into the atmosphere in the form of steam and form clouds at high altitudes, and then many drops of this water combine to form rain. But if all the seas freeze, there will be a drought; there will be no rain for many years, due to which humans and animals may suffer from many epidemics.

50 to 85 per cent of the oxygen in our atmosphere comes from the oceans, so if all the oceans freeze, many animals and humans will die of suffocation. Geological evidence suggests that all of Earth’s oceans have frozen twice before, about 65,000 years ago.