How long before all the ice melts?

How long before all the ice melts? - BBC World Service

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Жыл бұрын

We know the Earth's atmosphere is warming and it's thanks to us and our taste for fossil fuels. But how quickly is this melting the ice sheets, ice caps, and glaciers that remain on our planet? That's what listener David wants to know.
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With the help of a team of climate scientists in Greenland, Marnie Chesterton goes to find the answer, in an icy landscape that's ground zero in the story of thawing. She discovers how Greenland’s ice sheet is sliding faster off land, and sees that the tiniest of creatures are darkening the ice surface and accelerating its melt.
CrowdScience explores what we're in store for when it comes to melting ice. In the lead-up to yet another UN climate conference, we unpack what is contributing to sea level rise - from ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, to melting mountain glaciers and warming oceans. There's a lot of ice at the poles. The question is: how much of it will still be there in the future?
Research Professor and climate scientist Jason Box from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland shows us how much ice Greenland we've already committed ourselves to losing, even if we stopped burning all fossil fuels today. His team, including Jakob Jakobsen, show us how these scientists collect all this data that helps feed climate models and helps us all to understand how quickly the seas might rise.
Professor Martyn Trantor from Aarhus University helps us understand why a darkening Greenland ice sheet would only add to the problem of melting. And climate scientist Ruth Mottram from the Danish Meteorological Institute breaks down how the ice is breaking down in Antarctica and other glaciers around the world.
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@TheRandallarthur Жыл бұрын

Did your cameras stop working? Why not have footage of the topic?

@richardravenclaw318 Жыл бұрын

whats with the stupid designs? give us some film.

@davedixon2068 Жыл бұрын

I believe that although there are visuals for this post the poster is BBC WORLD SERVICE which is a radio channel. I watched the vid titled "is it too late to save the Greenland Ice Sheet" which is the visuals to this.

@PEHook Жыл бұрын

Why (on Earth!) can't BBC afford to send a camera man? Or did they send one? Is there some legal reason for there being 90% of audio with no visuals?

@jimthain8777 Жыл бұрын

BBC World is a RADIO broadcast worldwide.

@thiemokellner1893 Жыл бұрын

Does it make the information any staggering?

@bluegold21 9 ай бұрын

Something to do with a wish not to produce more CO2 with extra luggage/persons not needed for the production. it's good of them to do that.

@davidmchugh-hypnotherapist7213 Жыл бұрын

I notice that the ice looks dirty which absorbs more heat from sunlight and further increases the melt.

@EmeraldView Жыл бұрын

Because as it melts the few particles of dust at each new level accumulates more and more at the top. Yes this heats faster and creates a positive feedback loop. 😕

@-LightningRod- Жыл бұрын

when i saw that ice, ..it looked "water laden" to me, .. very wet, loaded with water, slush maybe depending on the temp.

@maryjeanjones7569 Жыл бұрын

This is usually caused from the ash from forest fires. Ash travels far and wide and can land on ice which in turns heats up the ice because the sun does not deflect. In turn causes the ice to melt faster.

@donaldkasper8346 Жыл бұрын

Nothing is melting. End of sea ice predicted constantly for the past 50 years.

@StrangeBrew123 Жыл бұрын

Then add in the methane deposits 😂😂 w re fkd

@ianfowler2652 8 ай бұрын

The BBC World service is a radio programme and all they have done is spliced in a few bits of video to make it more interesting. Many of the videos on you tube would be better if we didn't have to look at them.

@trailerparkart2429 7 ай бұрын

Really wish we could have got video of all the beautiful sounding glaciers you are describing lol.

@justinsnelling8053 Жыл бұрын

Why is the video a wavy stream of orange and blue blanks - where is the actual video feed?

@BBCWorldService Жыл бұрын

Subscribe - kzfaq.info

@dinah3525 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@anthonydoyle7370 Жыл бұрын

If this is your normal output I think I may just decline your offer, but thankyou anyway.

@edwardfletcher7790 Жыл бұрын

Is this a video or a podcast ?

@Anne_Ony_Mouse Жыл бұрын

Yes

@parrsnipps4495 Жыл бұрын

Why are we subjected to that odd looking art?

@thiemokellner1893 Жыл бұрын

You must be living a life of plenty if this is your only sorrow.

@tossancuyota7848 Жыл бұрын

@@thiemokellner1893 RIP to your bitter ass

@sarahsokal Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@nutterbutter4232 Жыл бұрын

Budget cuts

@arsemyth8920 Жыл бұрын

Brainwashing

@marvinmartin4692 6 ай бұрын

This took place years ago, the 80’s I believe. The Isaac walten league had a local man present his chart’s for a local lake of ice in and ice out on the areas biggest lake. He got back to early 1900’s up to present then, it was completely obvious that things are definitely warming! His chart’s laid it out perfectly!

@jett7891 Жыл бұрын

I must say, I am loving your graphic. I thought it was a chart showing water running over glaciers and melting the ice, but, I realize the glaciers in this animation are actually melting way way slower than the glaciers!

@alphillips5478 9 ай бұрын

I thought the graphic ''got in the way'' I mean the commentary talks of ''wonderful views'' but you dont see them because of the graphic!

@StressRUs 9 ай бұрын

Glacial and sea ice is melting at the rate of 2,000,000,000 tons/day. And ice absorbs 80 times as much heat as water.

@jvalentine8376 Жыл бұрын

I have been living near the salt water for 40 years and I can't see a single inch of sea level rise along my foreshore . The tide levels look the same to me .

@dfinlen Жыл бұрын

Data supports that. Tide charts haven't accelerated for all cities. No change in the rate of sea level change over the last 100 years.

@clivehorridge Жыл бұрын

More scam propaganda, no sea level rise acceleration, and no g. warming in the last 5+ years. 🙄

@SunShineSeLecT 10 ай бұрын

May I ask which sea your near?

@LulaJake 9 ай бұрын

People are mostly water so the 4 billion or so people that have been born in 40 years have used up the water that would have risen the sea level. Does that make sense?

@MountainFisher 9 ай бұрын

@@LulaJake Makes as much sense as saying all the ice is going to melt when 100 meters of snow fell since 1942 when planes had to land in Greenland, that's where they are now, under 100 meters of snow. Look up Glacier Girl.

@ianmills9659 Жыл бұрын

If the answer was in the very near future, would it make for a typical cozy announcement on a mainstream media platform?

@jasonbrambach6957 Жыл бұрын

Martyn Tranten’s comment, “we shouldn’t play God”, resonated. However, the bulk of the planets million and billionaires don’t share this view, obviously, and that’s why we are racing to extinction. 😢

@thiemokellner1893 Жыл бұрын

I am horrified of all those ideas of geoengineering as if we do not already (unintentionally) and fail miserably.

@lw1zfog 10 ай бұрын

@@thiemokellner1893 Bill only wants to SRM you so the AGW doesn’t get you. it’s entirely for your own good & he wants you to know that the rumours of him & his father being raging fans of eugenics are just vicious rumours. $CIENCE!™️ BELIEVE !

@lw1zfog 9 ай бұрын

@@dr5290 those so called ‘elites’ would have you thinking that overpopulation is the issue, when it’s really just the equitable distribution of resources that needs sorting out.

@tealkerberus748 12 күн бұрын

@@lw1zfog 10% of the world's population is producing 50% of the world's greenhouse gas excess, and similar proportions of other pollutants. We have a means to halve humanity's impact on our ecosystem right there.

@JamesPilkenton-se5cx 7 ай бұрын

Love your work. Pardon please but does the plethora of internal combustion engine contribute to the melting factor ? Not just automobile but all of it. Lawn equipment,trains, construction equipment, aircraft,boats and shopping ? Can a person effectively make a difference beyond give up the personal ride ?

@andrea.w211 Жыл бұрын

Wish there was video with this, especially with the purple algea...

@grosvenorclub Жыл бұрын

What media like the BBC should be explaining is what was the last ice age , when did it start , what caused it (even that is still being debated ) what was its extremes and how long it has been melting to get an idea of the whole process .

@Encephalitisify Жыл бұрын

No. This is not just climate change. This is a man made global warming crisis. There hasn’t been a time where warming has happened this quickly. Nor has there been a time when co2 has risen this quickly. Ever.

@rge24491 Жыл бұрын

We are currently recovering from a miniature ice age caused by volcanic eruption.

@satanicmicrochipv5656 7 ай бұрын

You're confusing glacial periods (ice ages) and interglacial periods (like the climate of the dinosaurs) which last 10's to 100's of millions of years, with glacial maximums and glacial minimums that last 10's to 100's of thousands of years. The last glacial period began 55+mya and the earth is currently still in the middle of that glacial period. We are at the end of a glacial minimum that began 12+tya and should be slowly cooling as we head towards the next glacial maximum, instead of rapidly warming Search: Melankovich Cycles. Enjoy.

@bobanalacon3794 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your reporting on this issue. The production quality is not worthy of BBC. The information is good. So, thanks for that. But this may as well have been produced as a written document.

@radjalomas8854 Жыл бұрын

agree, what's the point of making a video if it's to mainly show a graphic?

@simonsimon325 Жыл бұрын

@@radjalomas8854 Because it isn't a video. It's from the BBC world service, which is a radio broadcaster. This is taken from one of their radio programmes.

@anthonyirvin9522 3 ай бұрын

In Antartica and southern Chile and Argentina tours are Still being advertised, what can we do to stop them?

@zigniingiz Жыл бұрын

I know that the ice wall is decently a problem while it's melting especially when they don't know exactly where the water is going to especially when they are thinking the sea level will rise hugely

@jonathaneffemey944 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting.

@felipearbustopotd 10 ай бұрын

28 trips to the Artic, no doubt he's planted a lot of trees to offset his carbon footprint? My question is, how much weight is there in ice, and how much will the land rise once all the Greenland Ice has melted? Are there any concerns about trapped organisms being released and causing us potential harm? Thank you for uploading and sharing.

@Timlagor 10 ай бұрын

Some carbon emissions are worthwhile. Ice weight loss does have an effect on volcanic activity but it's not the biggest concern. There are concerns about trapped diseases (and some very old organisms have been reanimated) but the risk is mostly considered very low (they'd probably be very vulnerable to antibiotics if they even got going at all -those reanimations happened in lab conditions).

@bluegold21 9 ай бұрын

Oh, so you think sea level rise won't harm us? JFC! Wake up cuz. Every major city on a coastline will be permanently flooded within the next 50 years. 200+ nuclear power stations are on tidal waterways. Imagine Fukushima x 200 and without any way to clean it up or hold back the radioactive material. So probably Fukushima X god knows what. No life on the planet would get away from that. And that will happen just with the loss of Antarctica's Thwaites glacier. As far as disease is concerned probably the worst thing that can come out of the frozen ground is Anthrax. However, the Greenland ice shelf does not have any dead animals inside it. Except maybe at its grounded point. But if the melt gets down to there a disease will be the last thing on our minds as we try to evolve gills in water-world.

@fabiengerard8142 8 ай бұрын

Like what’s happening with the permafrost, you mean?

@felipearbustopotd 8 ай бұрын

@@fabiengerard8142 Yes

@silversurfertim2123 7 ай бұрын

@nedzero1284 Жыл бұрын

Apparently it was by the year 2000, and every 2 years since

@lw1zfog 10 ай бұрын

transphobe

@joshwalters3148 3 ай бұрын

@@lw1zfogclimate cultist lol

@thiemokellner1893 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the report. One problem I have never seen mentioned is that there is no need to melt the ice to rise the sea level, it suffices that glaciers calve into the ocean. It will do the job just fine. The melting can take than whenever it does. Am I mistaken? How "good" are the chances that a huge amount of ice gets calved into the sea, let's say 1/7th of the Greenland ice shield, in "on go" just because there is enough ice molten to make parts of the shield swim enough to glide enough for the slope it is on?

@Nathan-ry3yu Жыл бұрын

I did a model I put sand in bucket and water around it. Than I added ice that raised the water level. When the ice melt the water volume leval stayed the same. So to say the sea will rise is a lie.

@thiemokellner1893 Жыл бұрын

@@Nathan-ry3yu Your model is incomplete. If adding the ice made raise the level of your water, it is a model for the ice swimming in the Arctic sea. You might add a mighty block of ice on top of your sand on a stone that does not touch the water. Mighty only to see the melting effect on the water level more easily. The adaptation reflects the glacier ice in high mountain, the ice on Greenland and on the Antarctic continent. Or if you want it simpler, place a cube of ice in a glas that gets smaller to its base, e.g. coca-cola, such that it does not touch the ground the cube has to be big enough. After the ice has molten, you can tell us whether the level of water in the glas has risen.

@pakde8002 Жыл бұрын

@@Nathan-ry3yu are you trying to make a joke or ... first, how old are you? Change your experiment. Place a brick in the bucket. Then fill the bucket below the top of the brick. Now put a block of ice on top of the brick. I think you will be able to figure it out without waiting for the ice to melt.

@dfinlen Жыл бұрын

The calving only occurs when there is sufficient ice for the whole length of the glacier to have flowed to the sea. So the total ice captured in the glacier has not changed.

@Nathan-ry3yu Жыл бұрын

@@thiemokellner1893 Not enough land coverage in ice to make a significant impact on sea levels to back up that theory of yours. Antarctica isn't as large as scientists had thought. It's actually made up of hundreds of islands. With majority off the surrounding sea covered in ice. That makes up majority of its ice coverage. New data shows Antarctica if it melts only about 2% sea leval may rise but no evidence to state it will happen either based on new discoveries of sea water leaking between our tectonic plates in the sea and getting trapped in rocks deep within our interior planet. Theirs studies that earth interior has 3 times the water trapped in rocks in our planet interior that what sits on the surface.

@kevinowen3702 9 ай бұрын

Also what about the South Atlanic Gyre of freshwater melt. Not mentioned and impact on AMOC.

@simonsauter3229 Жыл бұрын

You should do a study on ice ages and their cycles. That would be interesting.

@anthonydoyle7370 Жыл бұрын

It might open up their thinking a bit. But I doubt it.

@truthhurts5158 Жыл бұрын

probably more truth in that then climate change

@SteffiReitsch Жыл бұрын

@@anthonydoyle7370 AAAHAHAHAHAHHA I think the world's climate scientists from many different countries with post doc degrees already know plenty about ice ages , dummy.

@qbas81 Жыл бұрын

Do you scientists like Jason don’t do that?

@solarwind907 Жыл бұрын

That historical work has been done. Polar ice Cores have been taken and the data recorded. The science is way ahead of you and has been available for decades FYI.

@qbas81 Жыл бұрын

This is great and informative program, but what has happened with video?

@jim14-us4ii Жыл бұрын

With the accelerated warming and melting I don't see it taking millennia to melt. What really worries me is that the glaciers will break lose and slide off into the ocean en mass. If that happens, not only will it immediately raise sea levels dramatically but it will create a tsunami like we have never seen in our lifetimes. I hope you are right and we do have hundreds/thousands of years. I just don't see it from the studies I have seen.

@ianrowley5762 Жыл бұрын

I hope you don’t rely on the BBC for your views on global warming.

@jim14-us4ii Жыл бұрын

@@ianrowley5762 And what scientific evidence do you rely on?

@jasonbrambach6957 Жыл бұрын

The IPCC concluded we are already in “abrupt climate change”. In other words, irreversible extinction.

@jim14-us4ii Жыл бұрын

@@jasonbrambach6957 I don't believe it is irreversible yet, but it is approaching fast. I believe we do have the technology, the tools to reverse it still, but I believe we lack the will to try. If it happens in the most catastrophic way imaginable mankind could be knocked back to the stone age, but I think some will survive. We are a tenacious virus. The planet getting a little fever won't be enough to be rid of us.

@StrangeBrew123 Жыл бұрын

Same

@rickebuschcatherine2729 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the subject from France... I share...

@marinaclarasanchezsuarez2905 Жыл бұрын

Could you show a Map of greenland without the ice??? Thx . Greetings from Brussels 🙂🇪🇺

@grindupBaker Жыл бұрын

It's a video of a radio program, unusual nowadays.

@meister-t Жыл бұрын

You guys messed up. I don't understand why you start showing video footage and then cut it off with the wavy graphic.

@mikeohawk95 5 ай бұрын

Due to the sci ne also of freezing in the freezer and icicles making, we could use techniques to rebuild the lost glacier of Iceland and use ln2 and advanced freezing techniques to refrozen mass amounts of our world water, take form the ocean,freezer and place in ice caps of the planet

@spraudoggy 8 ай бұрын

From NASA…”The question: Melt ice cubes in a glass of water, and the water level will not change. Can the same be said for ice floating in the ocean? The answer: There is a common misconception that sea level change comes only from ice attached to land, and not from floating sea ice. Although that is mostly true, it turns out that there is an effect, even if it is minor. An often-overlooked ingredient makes a significant difference: saltiness. Various studies show that because floating ice is made of fresh water, it actually increases sea level slightly when it melts into the salty sea - unlike what happens in your water glass. A floating object, like an iceberg or other sea ice, displaces its own weight in water. But fresh water is less dense than salt water. So, when floating ice melts and becomes liquid, it takes up more volume than the seawater it displaced when it was ice, raising sea level. This has about 3% the effect of grounded ice-melt and raises sea level.”

@elliotlambert3817 Жыл бұрын

The snow and ice on the Greenland Ice sheet has been melting forever that is why it is not reaching the sky. This show is scaremongering for the oceans to rise a meter water would have to be stored on all the land mass to the height of two meters, this is due to the land covering about half the area of the oceans. Imagine Australia would have to hold two meters of water over its entire area, this would need to be repeated on all the continents for the sea to rise a meter.

@jansoltes971 Жыл бұрын

"Flow of hot rocks rising from the Earth's core beneath central Greenland is melting the ice from below and contributing to sea-level rise, study finds"

@certiPHIer Жыл бұрын

Could they make White inflatable pillows to anchor over the algae blooms to kill them off and keep the ice from melting so fast?

@thiemokellner1893 Жыл бұрын

How much CO2 would we need to emit to produce and install those pillows? What do we do with those innumerable pillows once we do not need them anymore? Let them float the oceans to create the next disaster? We are not even capable of handling our day-to-day waste properly.

@joshwalters3148 3 ай бұрын

Ice melting is a good thing......these people are lying to you.

@stephenmcdermott4435 9 ай бұрын

Sea level is rising at about 3.6 mm per year so it really is nothing to be worried about but we should prepare for it and reduce our CO2 emissions. However it is the worlds biggest economies who continue to do little in this respect making all the efforts of the a small few nations like the UK futile while making life unnecessarily harder for those citizens.

@mahmutkolukfaki 9 ай бұрын

Why without video?

@kimiikins Жыл бұрын

Why is the video part of this blocked??????

@joshwalters3148 3 ай бұрын

It's propoganda.....who cares

@frankstone3809 11 ай бұрын

I'd like to drop a go-pro camera down that ice river.

@yodad4776 Жыл бұрын

How long till u can't step foot there or in Alaska or Canada .there saying permafrost is as thick as 100 meters in places it's all going to liquify

@Talksin403 2 ай бұрын

14,000 years ago the ic sheet was 2 miles deep covering north american Let melt ,.

@dfinlen Жыл бұрын

Well considering it's night for about 6 months in the artic circle... The answer is never., But keep trolling us.

@mysticody 6 ай бұрын

would be nice to see what's going on. a lot of audible not a lots of video

@amyrichard3203 Жыл бұрын

Time to watch the movie Waterworld once again.

@solarwind907 Жыл бұрын

For anyone that cares, the union of concerned scientists is a good source for climate science related facts.

@CarterCalhoun-lu7ld 5 ай бұрын

Facts is a strong word. You should call them what they are, climate related prophecies. Made by snake oil prophets who only get money from the government if they report there is a crisis.

@kiedranFan2035 Жыл бұрын

I'm just wondering why that fresh water isn't being used for something yet by someone

@solarwind907 Жыл бұрын

The water may be free but the shipping will kill you. Think about it.

@randydyck9353 Жыл бұрын

They have a hydro electric generator for the south end of Greenland.

@belladonnatook8851 Жыл бұрын

Notwithstanding the fact that we have no idea what microbiomes, or whatever, may being released and may carry what potential diseases...

@thiemokellner1893 Жыл бұрын

@@solarwind907 It won't take much time when fresh water will be more expensive than gold. Spain, e.g., is craving already for fresh water and it is not even summer yet.

@markschuette3770 Жыл бұрын

yes global warming is just ONE of the many environmental issues we face- always look at the big picture!

@annbenson5431 Жыл бұрын

Not liking the background constantly flowing past. Show the actual pictures of the trip! Thanks!

@DavidShantzwildoutwest 28 күн бұрын

I would criticize the absence of visuals that are bring directly and specifically referenced in the podcast. Show the chart where it references it.

@nirprizant4228 Жыл бұрын

Antarctica is getting colder

@frinoffrobis 8 ай бұрын

wonder what they would say now after the hottest summer and Antarctica sea ice is broken

@EmeraldView Жыл бұрын

We're done for. And we deserve it.

@Herkimer_Snerd Жыл бұрын

Some of us do, some of us don't. The people most affected are the ones who deserve it the least. Those who are the main cause will be able to buy their way out of problems.

@belladonnatook8851 Жыл бұрын

@@Herkimer_Snerd...and go where, ultimately?

@marinaclarasanchezsuarez2905 Жыл бұрын

So correcto Belladona. A change of atmosphere is ELE. And It Will happen kickly with the methane permafrost.... Clouds of methane(?) When(?)

@Herr2Cents 17 күн бұрын

Cause and effect. Don't be a defeatist.

@vixu_xivu 9 ай бұрын

Sorry to say this, but your graphic between pictures and clips it is anoying and I gust skiped after 5 mins to where are pictures and clips,

@hombrepobre9646 Жыл бұрын

i saw the ice in this video like a rainbow, the color is yellow and green, this is audio

@Timlagor 10 ай бұрын

Greenland should worry us but arctic Sea Ice looks likely to be the first unignorable ice event when it first runs out in the mid-2030s. (which will massively impact Greenland)

@bluegold21 9 ай бұрын

Antartica's Thwaites Glacier will probably be the first big SLR event. It's known as the doomsday glacier.

@DrSmooth2000 8 ай бұрын

@@bluegold21I'm pro melting so see same stats you do but glumly. 2223 at +8.5C which tbf would have been a lot Well past the era Star Trek is set in before Greenland melts at 4C... +2 think ice free Y3K 🥳

@bluegold21 8 ай бұрын

@@DrSmooth2000 If Thwaites collapses that is a 7m rise defo before the end of the century. And highly likely at least 6 feet before mid-century. 2m is a massive game changer and will exacerbate the melting of all other ice stores. Greenland, as it shrinks, will increase it's rate of melting due to the physics. Smaller objects have more surface area to mass plus the lowering of the glacier's altitude will obviously bring it into warmer air. Add the increase in global temps heating the oceans and I can not see how we can avoid 14 to 20 meters SLR by the end of the century without beginning to scrub the atmosphere of CO2 now. That is a calamity for civilisation and the ELE we should avoid. I fear for large ocean-bound mammals. We may lose the likes of Whales forever. It's all looking pretty grim.

@georgehagstrom1461 2 ай бұрын

I like how the people reporting on the melting ice flying a helicopter adding to the melting.

@marvinmartin4692 6 ай бұрын

Where is the picture???? Wtf?!

@sarahsokal Жыл бұрын

Drinking water 🚰 to collect + make portable hydroelectric turbines . All before it goes to the sea now. 🌊 Melting happens every year ...In Canada 🇨🇦 as well

@jihadjoe4957 9 ай бұрын

The main problem is that they look at research data in isolation, but Earth is a closed system so everything is interconnected. This means that the rate of change won't be linear but rather exponential.

@lorimason2288 8 ай бұрын

bingo!

@williamgwyntreharne9966 14 күн бұрын

Damming up a glacier could stop it retreating, couldnt it or could it?

@prancer4743 9 ай бұрын

How long is a string 👍🤔😉😉😉😉

@StressRUs 10 ай бұрын

So, a fellow told me on the net that it takes 343 joules (BTUs) of heat to melt just one GRAM of ice. So, if Greenland is losing 250-280 GT (1 Km X 1Km X 7m)/yr., well, you do the math. My 'puter exploded and then melted into a steaming pile of bubbling plastic when I tried to do it! We burned 8,000,000,000 TONS of coal in 2021, and we mindlessly and so often needlessly burn 100,000,000 BARRELS of oil DAILY, driving 23 ZJ into the oceans every year. Remember, you do the math, my 'puter is toast. We are accelerating our drive to extinction much, much faster than any of the MSM (yes, even my dear BBC) has told us, otherwise we'd be eliminating ALL unnecessary travel by any fossil fuel burning conveyance, and using CONTRACEPTION to prevent the horror that awaits the next generation and after, if there is an "after".

@KBParrots Жыл бұрын

Where I live the climate is more cool than it is warm I don’t know if I want it to be any colder that’s for sure!!

@superbwater78 10 ай бұрын

In Arkansas we have had 105-106 degree temperatures every single day for almost 3 weeks in a row. It is brutal.

@KBParrots 10 ай бұрын

@@superbwater78 this heat wave soon pass.

@robindumpleton3742 11 ай бұрын

Anyone notice that most scientists say it will be 1000 years. Eco anxiety destroys young peoples lives. Still looking for that sea with a slope. Want to go water skiing.

@drake000666 Жыл бұрын

If BBC says so then it must be true, they never lie. 🤣

@CarterCalhoun-lu7ld 5 ай бұрын

Exactly. It's not like they're globalist-controlled propaganda or anything.

@normmelanson9318 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful looking doc, unfortunately poor audio with lots of background chatter and noise!

@alexpert Жыл бұрын

This is live sound caption not studio soundproof caption. get real

@EveryoneHarmonyPeace 10 ай бұрын

How long before all the ice melts? Ans: We don't live to get a chance to see it.

@danielpalos 10 ай бұрын

Why upgrading Infrastructure and related technologies, matters. Besides, we need the practice for developing underwater Cities.

@ronaldgarrison8478 Жыл бұрын

Great wallpaper. Several dubious claims. Still, I gave it a like.

@pakde8002 Жыл бұрын

Flying from Chicago to Korea for a major part of the journey every time I looked out the window there was nothing but ice, literally hours of nothing but ice. Frankly it was a bit horrifying imagining being stuck in the middle of all that ice. I'm in my 60's and while I accept that we're witnessing the last of the most recent ice age and that it may be getting pushed along due to human activity, I very much doubt my great grandchildren will live to see the day when all that ice is melted.

@Alpacabowl98 Жыл бұрын

we need you to fly back to Chicago to tell us what you see now

@DS-zl4up Жыл бұрын

I have no doubts all the ice will melt in less than 20 years. The heat waves are getting so bad up in Canada and Switzerland. The poles are heating extremely fast. The ice has been melting much faster than predictions from 20 years ago. Ya folks, 20 years, it will all melt, the oceans will be dying and it will be too late.

@dan2304 Жыл бұрын

I am 74 and having my health problems but at the rate of Arctic ice loss I may see the Arctic Ocean ice free. We are talking about the Arctic Ocean not the land. Each year there is less ice to melt and more heat available to melt it, so each year a greater percentage of the Arctic Ocean ice is lost, an accelerating cycle.

@DS-zl4up Жыл бұрын

@@dan2304 I’m meaning land. In 20 years it will all melt away. Google Clathrate Gun Hypothesis, I believe we will be in a massive wakeup call soon. No one is discussing the runaway methane gas. Get ready 👉

@jayleeper1512 Жыл бұрын

I am 71 and have spent a large portion of my life working in the north. To me, the catastrophe is so obvious that to not see it, you must have your head where the sun don’t shine.

@kevinowen3702 9 ай бұрын

Would be interesting to know why at geological levels current co2 levels should have seen a 10m rise already as stated in your article. But after stating no explanation given? Is it anthropomorphic effects? e.g happening so fast and accelerating away so well get some phase transition and a mega sunami?

@anaoha999 8 ай бұрын

It's because latent heat infusion. You need 334J to melt 1 gram of ice at 0°C. It's a lot of energy. Now we reached latent heat the tipping point. And most of energy goes into heating the ocean. Most of ice is gone. It's new thin ice what we have. Also - you only need 15% of area covered with ice to count it as "Ice cover".

@DrSmooth2000 8 ай бұрын

@@anaoha999good to know. Wetland feedback cycle will be tough to stop

@anaoha999 8 ай бұрын

@@DrSmooth2000 we don't have technology to stop any feedback loops.

@DrSmooth2000 8 ай бұрын

@@anaoha999 could have done the sulfur to stratosphere with 1930s tech if had wanted to. That's the only Gengineer idea that will be widely done.

@public.public Жыл бұрын

When all the ice has melted what melts next?

@sundancer442 Жыл бұрын

So long as it's floating ice it doesn't matter at all to first country nations. Greenland, however is very important to Northern Nations.

@valoriethechemist 10 ай бұрын

Get two classes and a ruler. Fill one with ice water and the other with rock and water and ice on top of the rock. Measure the difference. The ice water doesn’t change. The rock and water rises in level.

@Buckshot99 7 ай бұрын

Ice has been melting for about 18,000 years.

@warbledurbler7905 3 ай бұрын

Why take camera's to record the helicopter landing on the ice and then turn them off after 5 seconds? *A picture paints a thousand words, moving pictures even more so.*

@Peoples_Republic_of_Cotati 6 ай бұрын

Current Doubling Rates suggest a much faster rise in sea level during the 2100s...but that should be avoidable I guess. But if not, then all ice melted by 2200's is my guess.

@markcampbell7577 Жыл бұрын

The estimate as to when all of the ice melts. Doesn't mean the ice caps are not melting. The subsidence of land is not as significant as the ocean level rising as the polar ice caps melt. .

@Timlagor 10 ай бұрын

Arctic Sea Ice melting only makes a very very small contribution to SLR (and only because of salinity difference). What will be very significant is when we run out of sea ice up there and the heat has to go somewhere else.

@eforde2 Жыл бұрын

Tell me why sea levels are the same everywhere?

@morganoverbay8783 2 ай бұрын

Love all the panic, fear, disaster hype, doom, dispair, etc. keep up the good work

@IowaStrmChsr Жыл бұрын

Nice topic, but please show more of the interviews and other video. The graphic is ok, but very annoying.

@arsemyth8920 Жыл бұрын

If they had video evidence, they'd show it. But they don't, so they can't.

@christiankromphardt Жыл бұрын

Missing video to this important story, to bad!

@josephdonais4778 Жыл бұрын

How long before all the ice melts? You are reminding me of the Tootsie Pop owl. Just pick it up and drink it. Had I known this is what you intended, I'd have found another date.

@booms7258 Жыл бұрын

Good work. A bit frustrating not being able to see what’s going on, phone footage would be fine.

@commonsense1907 4 ай бұрын

Ice melted during the Medieval Warm Period, then advanced during the Little Ice Age. People did not have gasoline cars back then.

@xyzct Жыл бұрын

We're about 2.6 million years into the Quaternary Ice Age, which might last 100 million years. We are in the 45th interglacial (a brief, slightly warmer) period. The cold will return. But even this warm spell today is not far from the coldest range Earth has ever been. Nevertheless, ignore the geological record, adopt an emotionally-potent oversimplification, and blame donaldtrumpdioxide. Thanks BBC.

@christopher554 7 ай бұрын

So far this year there’s been record ice gain ,and it’s only end off October

@bonysminiatures3123 Жыл бұрын

How long before all the world is covered in ice .....

@solarwind907 Жыл бұрын

Here’s another chance to educate yourself.m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f9SYgKZ719WamHU.html Good luck with the miniatures!

@sew_gal7340 Жыл бұрын

As a climate change activist i think a lot of the media is really sensationalizing so much of the climate issue

@oftin_wong Жыл бұрын

You are correct ...and you are also playing a part in it as an activist The whole issue has been sensationalized and politicised

@argoneonoble Жыл бұрын

Troll.

@lw1zfog 10 ай бұрын

Andy F has a hockey stick to sell you.

@valoriethechemist 10 ай бұрын

As a scientist, I can assure you they’re SEVERELY underestimating the problem.

@saschaesken5524 3 ай бұрын

Look at the dark dust on the ice. Thats the reason why ice melts much faster when the sun shines on it.

@arsemyth8920 Жыл бұрын

Filmed in summer, when ice melts

@adrianrouse5148 Жыл бұрын

When will it melt ??? Don't know nobody kept records the last time it happened. Nobody knows the speed or ins and outs of the warming cycle.

@dinah3525 Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, CrowdScience.

@BBCWorldService Жыл бұрын

You can find more episodes of CrowdScience here: kzfaq.info/sun/PLz_B0PFGIn4cT4qluPKNtMmBAPPrpoxvT

@WobbigongSoundSystem Жыл бұрын

I think I would prefer a still photo of ice or something, maybe a map. The weird waves are making me think the video is broken.

@okwatever3582 Жыл бұрын

Same. Watching this kind of video (radio) I just put this on my counter while cooking or brushing my teeth and listen to it. It is quite annoying when you wanna see what is the scene or footage instead of seeing a video but it is really just a radio.

@cat793cdumpy Жыл бұрын

It is minus 80 degrees in places on this planet and that will never melt.

@shoveldoggermafia Жыл бұрын

Can we just have the graphic without the talking next time?

@bobhenderson7077 20 күн бұрын

Perhaps BBC world service is not the BBC. And if they showed the video portion they would get a copyright strike. I cant see why else they would bother to put a audio recording on You tube.