http://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/on-thin-ice

Climate change as icebreaker. - Water is essential for life – that we know. But the honeycomb lattice that forms when you chill it to zero degrees Celsius is also inexorably intertwined with life.

Ice is more than a repository for water that would otherwise raise sea levels. It’s part of Earth’s cooling system … a barrier preventing decaying organic matter from releasing methane gas … and a vault entombing ancient bacteria and other microbes.

From the Arctic to the Antarctic, global ice is disappearing. Find out what’s at stake as atmospheric CO2 threatens frozen H2O.

Guests:

Peter Wadhams http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/pw11/ - Emeritus Professor of Ocean Physics at Cambridge University in the U.K. and the author of A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the Arctic https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0190691158/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=arweal-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0190691158&linkId=0709ac3239eee272cb0215a043e7e4a6

Eric Rignot http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5467 - Earth systems scientist, University of California, Irvine, senior research scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Åsmund Asdal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85smund_Asdal - Biologist, Nordic Genetic Resource Center, coordinator for operations and management of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Svalbard, Norway

John Priscu http://landresources.montana.edu/dept/faculty/priscu-j.html - Polar biologist, Montana State University

Segments:
Part 1: Peter Wadhams / Sea Ice
Part 2: Eric Rignot / Larsen C
Part 3: Peter Wadhams / Permafrost
Part 4: Åsmund Asdal / Doomsday Vault
Part 5: John Priscu / Microbes Unleashed

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