The gremlins ice sheet hobbles, a secret, giving us a look into all future the pump down secret runs through these rivers of mount water, which form every summer and disappear every winter. The they drain into holes, cold moves on. This one is believed to continue hundreds of meters down into the ice. And thats where on going the south. You can hear the water. Its lowered, right . So thats whats fun about it. The, the ice is melting. Sea levels are rising. We will know event, but no one knows just how fast it is happening, even though that may be the most dudgeon question to answer right now. The, the, i want to go down that home together with some scientists to learn about the future. Yes, but you will quickly become part of the past if youre not careful whats up then the okay following, i dont really have much experience with climbing on ice as a filmmaker, i know more about cameras, white balance and depth of field. As a child, i had a place where i could be all by myself. The world of my own, the bulk behind a home where i lived i went to every day. Oh yeah. On expeditions deep into unknown territory. Then one day they started building town houses that i was outraged when they started cutting down trees. They continued building, even though i took the key to the trailer and threw it in the lake to sabotage they walk my well disappeared. It may be that so say whats happening now only now its not just my level. Well thats punishing the coordinator to the board. The point on ticket and then the the 8. 8 meters. Now this looks more beautiful price jason box dont today is jensen and allan hubbard. Ill be joining these 3 extraordinary professors and explore as on their expeditions, documenting what they find by the way it season. Is it safe to walk . Just just, just go to think about there, but in other words, the next one you see the snow birds here its. Its not sick. Nope. And you stand on that youre just gonna fall in and you can see not easily 15 either or . No, no, no, no, no. Somebody like what puts us no bridge. Well, like you were standing on that wasnt say, you know, the, these, these take lives the, the most scientists study the ice mount from un office using data from satellites radar and computer models. But theres a lot we cannot determine that way. Door to jason and down them believe its necessary to study the process through to rank jumps of ation and field status. They call it ground truth for, for to us soon. Document factors, the effective input use the look of 20 years ago. You could go directly onto the ice from here. Now you have to will quite fall to reach its normal golf when you, when you will, can i see want to climb its history. The down kind of say for that that slice from the ice age, which is more than 11000 years old. Im gonna keep her own tough is lighter color dice, younger than 11000 years from the integration of periods. Welcome or the east for, for many reasons. So you can stand with one, like in the, i say jesus, im with the other like in the, into glacial periods. Like this. Im standing here, its a very dramatic moment in climate history. Or this is just one instrument of many here weve been studying this place here over a decade now. So we have a pretty good idea about how it will display c a b hayes. So i think its important to come here and make the measurements and just not sit behind the desk and download your data real, some satellite the, any real white to know whats going on a device you should use to access it. Youve got to drill holes, youre going to put sensors there, and then you have to go down there and find that man. The aroma wild also means a more humid weld with more precipitation. How will this affect the ice . How does most snow and rain affect the mounting process . It show to have a huge impact on the future climate. But we dont have much data on it. The one of the few scientists who study the relationship between increased rain and snowfall is professor jason box. Well this is getting really big the way that we can check the fly is this idea of pouring water over pouring water over a . Yeah, well the flood, the parchment, not too much water, but we want to check if uh, if this repair job has worked slow and he is like rain stuff through from the top or yeah, the top come through so far, so good to get your spray bottle just wherever my hand is from the outside, jason has been on. I have authority expeditions, researching the climax on the ice sheet. Theres a come into what theres some thats coming through dammit. This is professor conrad steph, and jasons mental early in his career. A pioneer in climate research. Jason was one of the office of the you and Climate Change report that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. We really dont know a lot about just how much rain falls. How much snow is there . Rain can damage the snow, it can accelerate the melting process. And the so you see right now, this is bare ice back here, its dark, it absorbs a lot of sunlight. If you have a fix know cover. And we think that climate warming is bringing more snow so that actually has a protective effect on the ice. But at the same time, theres more rain. So we have to also record how much rain is fall. I need to make sense about the competition between these 2 forms of h 2. 0 its. Its kind of an untold story. I think itll become a hot topic for other scientists. During the winter, precipitation falls as snow layer upon land settling as a thick cover on top of the ice, essentially protects the ice from the heat of the sun, the the, the time of my 1st expedition. The objective is to see how much snow is falling during winter. This place is devoid of life the we will be staying here for 12 days. Moving towards the coast on skis in slants along the way. Well stop many times a day to drill into the ice. Accompanying us is jasons friend and research connie massaging the wall. No. Ive marked in my book these 2 areas that are risky. So theres one kilometer which crosses where we go over this ridge. I clearly remember the crevices jason had shown me. Its not visible now the in order to find out how big the cover of snow is, the scientist must drill through the snow until they strike ice. The we had to dig this little bit because we got more snow here. Said we were expected we, we didnt bring enough drill equipment to go that just that extra beat or 330. 00. Its a total that yeah. The they need to do numerous snow drilling as a day to obtain a reliable scientific result. Do we get agreement between the 2 course agreements . Ok, lets take one more. Pretty impressive, positive on collective knowledge about the state of the ice sheet. Stems from data gathered using a primitive drill, a plastic bag and the kitchen scale. We set up camp here, sleeping 100 kilometers out on the ice sheet on top of a mattress of frozen water, one kilometer think the of the dc, the video and so forth. Yeah, definitely. Its people to make good japanese down there. Yeah, i hope the it shouldnt be this warm here today. Its like summer conditions in the middle of april. Think about all of this landscape absorbing all this extra heat. Hard not to feel that something really is happening here. Its like a kind of like a disaster in slow motion. Its i call it the burden of awareness. Its the opposite of ignorance is bliss. When you become aware of whats happening with Climate Change, you dont sleep good at night. Whoa. If you stay here long enough, Something Interesting starts to happen. You begin to see the nuances. You notice that the ice rate actually sloan, submit that it isnt one giant find, plan to that it actually pillows up and down. You can see that the wind has shaped the surface of the ice like waves frozen in time. It looks like a photograph of an ocean, an ocean that might soon be back in motion. The frozen is still gas in here. So im just wondering, you know, the, we have to take this route to, to avoid this really bad curve. S as in here, here. Then there jason enter. Massage these measurements will be compared to measurements gathered by a nasa airplane. The hands on research is meant to amend these laser measurements its, its a very small piece of, of, of the puzzle. But i think that the image thats forming is coherent. Ive been working on that image for 2 decades now and its, its a, its an image of a changing environment. The i do everything that i can to inform, the Climate Change issue. And thats for the sake of my daughter and all the other kids in nature that surrounds the jasons gps unit indicates one of his weather station sharpie. Right here, right here somewhere. The video over here. The the, this is what this thing is. 3 meters fall. Standing on the ice. I just now need to dig down meter and a half or so to get the memory, its hard to know what they should be able to dig fast. This is either speed metal or of those to somehow but you know, it gives you the power to fix. Know not if you really want to measure a small change is happening on the ice. You must do your observations at the same hour every day, all year round. This measuring station measures the level of snow every 4 hours. If its working properly, it wont get jason highly accurate snowfall data. Its a new technology. Measures neutrons reading down on the planet from space and the that the snowing between that block. Some of the neutrons expensive information here. I dont yet know if this equipment is working. Its really important because the models and the satellite measurements, they cannot capture this kind of thin layer of snow to understand how quickly the green that i see, theres no thing we have to do this. Oh, lets see many files here thats good. And the dates are starting when i remember this is 30th of august. Last year when we started in it stopped measuring on new years. It didnt record continuously, but these files are larger because if its uh, it did measure continuously. Its just recording the data in verse. So yeah, i think its working. Thats great. See you have a yeah. Yeah, im really happy put so much effort in to this work and you know, in the a lot of times it feels like its just pure effort in your youre wasting your time but seems to be working. So makes you feel kind of emotional. After all that, all that preparation for this, this trip. Tears of joy over here. With all of that information, we can learn a lot about a process, ease of melt, how much damage that can do to the snow in the ice. We didnt know that before the did the thing about ices, you have to listen and, and it will reveal its secrets and the way that we listened is with these recording devices. And then it tells us the story, the oh thats im high clouds so you know, maybe thats the weather weve been told about of the the hello is this the match office . Hi um. Yeah, i oppose the nice to know gala de la sosa, uh, e denmark. Uh and uh, we are on the inland, dice request uh whether prognosis of the the said 10 meters per 2nd in the morning and 18 meters per 2nd in the afternoon. For 3 days. Its better for us right now when the wind is only lighting, much lighter to build a wall to take the force of the wind. Cause 18 meters per 2nd is i think a little bit more than these 10 are really made for thats why we, we make the wall so will be ok. So the go down because this layer so difficult, so far, the icon help, lets think about what would happen if im 10. So ripped apart. We are lying here in the middle of the ice sheet is nothing but honest sleeping bags. Okay. 25 knots in the morning. In gusty, the of the way to be stronger. Building to about 40 knots. I have no idea how strong faulty nonsense im given a situation. Im not about to ask the the do you want more coffee . Looks like were getting through all you can really do is sit inside the tent the after 2 days. The storm suddenly stops the zip. Someone flicked the switch. Jason, a massage. She can finish that final snowed rollings and i noticed that we can see walter for the 1st time to the end of Greenland Ice sheet. We made it to the final destination, the safely emitted safely. Oh, its my family saying that they missed me. Its my 7 year old. I love you, dad. What are you do . A type reply. I am waiting for a helicopter. The jasons measurement show theres increased snowfall here. We can see that there is a gradual increase in uh, snowfall like 20 percent more snow fall since 1840. 00. The snow helps protect the ice, but at the same time this increased rain phone to which destroys the protective layer of snow. The rain is winning the competition. Jason talked about so far, all scientific calculations on how fast the ice is mounting and how quick the sea levels will rise. Thats not accounted for this effect of increased snow and rain for the the more c o 2 emissions reductions. Now we have it, it buys us time, delaying the time that hundreds of coastal cities become flooded because the ice sheets are melting, irreversibly were buying time and saving lives. The for the last 5 years, jason has been planting a forest in greenland. He wants to offset the c o 2 footprint, so if hes research on the ice, well, the mature tree will have a 100 p lowes of carpet in it, which is about half of the bio mass is carbon. So in this a heck there theres going to be 100 tons of hard to the. Ready pressing in the wind ready, but perhaps might suspend our personal Company Footprints and what we do. You know, i think most people are very eager to just give a hand to do something. We have to do a lot of small steps in on directions. Yeah, you know, this is something that we can do to take yeah, i mean were not gonna draw down all of our carbon, but this is something that we can do. And we all need to start doing something and not just talking about it. It seems like it fits well. Hopefully i can, i hope to come again. See if it has grown into a big tree or ice and ice Coal Research have taken up professor delta dental jensens entire research life. Oh, as jason puts it door to seize very much about science with a capital s big science. For the last 20 years, daughter has been leading one of the worlds most ambitious scientific projects fall routes on the ice. Together with a group of 50 danish and international scientists, she is drilling about 2500 meters down into the ice to gain an understanding of what happens inside the ice as well. 8. So now youll see that you can see the ice coincide. And now theyre going to pull out with the be we have more of an, a t tons of ice and 20 kilometers device costs. Here to provide a recent insight working through a history book. I could tell you a story about every folks and we started to tell them that cass this is the dont to, is one of the scientists to know the most about wont be ice content. Us about climate history. The findings to this is that to the ice from the ice age government, its 11900 years old. Each 9 represents in the spring of each year. If things are in store, no spring dust with them and small app bubbles foam around the stuff like that and some things they look a bit like champagne bubble in the middle east. When the snow falls to the ground and is cold between snowflakes, as low as snow falls, lat, upon desire of snow is press downward kilometer by kilometer the pressure 10 snow into lice which in calculates the into tiny bubbles that by present i think, yeah, from the time when the snow fell thousands of years ago, the basically, when you look at the snow from the last 5000, heres the sea when humans began influencing the climate so we can see more i and then more met charee in the ice. There are many ways we can measure the impact of human activity in the is a big difference between the ice here, which is almost without crevices on the front. Should i say that that the ice over here is moving most likely than the ice bank that the ice is in constant motion gliding, flowing and stretching downhill towards the coast line. Only now do i begin to realize that you can see where it flows the fastest. By looking at the surface, there are a current flowing through greenland frozen sea. Similar to the ones found in the wilds. Oceans ice flows. When the ice reaches the coast, it breaks off into the sea. The news as much, we dont yet know about the streams of ice, but we do know they are responsible for huff at the well to last device. Tough. What youre seeing here is the quickest iso on the planets. This place here once traveled, its 7 kilometers. Yeah. Thats no longer the case. Now the speed is about 12 kilometers a year, but thats about 40 meters a day. If you stand out there, you can actually see the ice flowing. Its unique probably the only place in the wells way you can see this the nobody can put landscaping here. So it is like a lunar landscape period because the ice has withdrawn and the speed of the ice flow has increased hot. And what do we have best life. Now, when the ice recedes, life appears on the 1st knife to appear in this desolate and byron place, only recently freed from the ice, every only slow behaves differently, that much door to knows this one had initially double that speed. Oh, need to slow down again. We dont know why its doing that. Do you take the, the, the Surprise Task because the temperatures on green end rising steadily my much so thats why its so difficult to understand the ice floes is this, the sample flows coverage model is predict the sea levels will rise 60 centimeters in copenhagen, denmark assuming that they include a margin of era of 60 centimeters. This 5 foxes to this means the city sea levels could change anywhere from 0 to 1. 2 meters of home. Thats the amount of variation poses a serious problem of as soon as the demo and warning you call that balance of the mounting in greenland takes place on the coast. The other haas through ice streams baton talked to cut the largest ice mass on us. Its so cold that nothing mounts on the surface of the last in ice mass on talked to is that foreclosed only by ice floes. Eastern everything we learn on greenland can be applied to on top to cut. The 40 percent of the World Population lives by an ocean and 230000000 people live at less than one meter above sea level. We have no idea how high dams will need to be to protect these populations. What i show lines will need to look like a web people, or should live scientists believe its the want to underneath the ice that affects the speed with which the ice is moving on. My next expedition on joining professor island hubbard as he explores these very phenomena, the or the business. But you will be, we are happy that we are back to the story. We have a getting a visa is more difficult than finding gold hosted to use the dream force and for the future in the stories and issues that are being discussed across the country. News africa. 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