If we keep burning fossil fuels indefinitely, global warming will eventually melt all the ice at the poles and on ... along with Florida and the Gulf Coast. In California, San Francisco's hills ...

The coast of Southeast Asia and the surrounding ... make experience ice-free summers as soon as 2050. If all the Earth's land ice were to melt our oceans would rise 216 feet.

The concept of all Earth’s ice melting might sound like a scene from a science fiction movie, but it is a scenario that scientists consider to explore the potential impacts of climate change.