all right now to that heat wave in the arctic scientists in canada say they ve observed record temperatures this week at a weather station at the world s most northerly permanently inhabited spot a military base that s less than 600 miles from the north pole. t.-shirt weather in this treeless tundra here in alert the northernmost permanent human settlement on the planet where snow and frost last all year temperatures hit a record high of 70 degrees fahrenheit or 21 degrees celsius. this summer has wreaked havoc on the arctic chill bringing balmy weather to a land not adapted to deal with. a recent report showed greenland glaciers are receding faster than previously thought. this video from a greenland climate researcher went viral sled dogs sloshing across melting ice on the inglefield fjord.
faster than normal the back story here the photo was taken by a danish climate researchers stephan olsen from the danish meteorological institute he was off with his sled dogs to collect instruments the team told us today actually that they ve been working with indigenous hunters in the area brant to measure the ice they ve been doing that for about a decade now but last week extremely warm temperatures in that region it s sped up the ice melts what they told us is that it shouldn t look like this until late june or even july but it s already melting now they also want to stress you know climate change is a big problem there it s clearly increasing the rate of melting but one specific event should not be directed linked to climate change and it looks incredibly i mean it s a beautiful picture but it looks incredibly dangerous to be done how can you know if the ice is going to enter not but i mean that s where the example working with locals there so they do know is know what s going on
birth the newborn is extremely vulnerable and uncertain future awaits him and syria s last rebel stronghold. while the arctic usually evokes images of snow we re somewhat like what you see behind me here but a striking picture from the region is drawing attention to the melting ice sheet that we re seeing right here called last minute here to talk about all the melting now climate change i mean it s tough sometimes to understand what s going on i mean climate change is such an abstract thing but photos like one that went viral today can can really help people kind of understand what exactly is going on on our planet and this photo in particular is very striking brad i don t know if you ve seen this yet this was taken on thursday in northwest greenland that should be ice instead that s water i mean it looks like these sled dogs are basically walking on water looks like they re actually traveling through water there. about one meter of ice underneath them but as you can see that ice is m
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the famed iditarod race underway in alaska, 67 teams with sled dogs taking off across a frozen lake 75 miles north of anchorage. the mushers on their way to nome, more than 900 miles over mountain ranges, frozen rivers, and dangerously terrain. the winner expected to reach the finish line sometime next week. a big deal. sounds like a blast, right? look at those dogs go. frozen lakes and on and on it goes. good luck, everybody. we had a crew drop in on us about an hour ago, highland elementary school, queens, new york. lovely kids. they came to see smitty. look at those lovely kids. stayed with us for a couple blocks on the show. fun to have them. anything else? did you watch the oscars? i did not. the pregame with e.!