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To it many times. it was greenland that really unnerved me. it may be remote, but there's enough ice here to raise the global sea level by 7 metres. i could see for myself a frightening pace of change. 0ur helicopter seemed tiny against the edge of the vast ice sheet. this massive wall of ice behind me... and since i first filmed there, temperatures have just kept rising. and ice that had seemed permanent has retreated. back in 2004, it would have been 100 metres thicker than it is now. that's like having a 30—storey building sitting on top. it's alljust going at an incredible speed. the ice...

The arctic was the hot spot, heating up much faster than the rest of the planet, and i was to return to it many times. it was greenland that really unnerved me. it may be remote, but there's enough ice here to raise the global sea level by seven metres. i could see for myself a frightening pace of change. 0ur helicopter seemed tiny against the edge of the vast ice sheet. this massive wall of ice behind me... and since i first filmed there, temperatures have just kept rising. and ice that had seemed permanent has retreated. back in 2004, it would have been 100 metres thicker than it is now.

It may be remote, but there's enough ice here to raise the global sea level by 7 metres. i could see for myself a frightening pace of change. 0ur helicopter seemed tiny against the edge of the vast ice sheet. this massive wall of ice behind me... and since i first filmed there, temperatures have just kept rising. and ice that had seemed permanent has retreated. back in 2004, it would have been 100 metres thicker than it is now. that's like having a 30—storey building sitting on top. it's alljust going at an incredible speed. the ice was vanishing beneath my feet faster than anyone believed p...

Fuse has been blown and doomsday is coming for us all," yikes. this glacier is holding back enough ice to raise the sea level around the world by ten feet. a new study found the ice shelf holding that ice in place could be gone in less than a decade. i'm going to quote for you from this new piece. if thwaites glacier collapses, it opens the door for the ice sheet to slide into the sea. globally 250 million people live within three feet of high tide lines. ten feet of sea level rise would be world-bending catastrophe. goodbye to any low-lying area in the world. i read your last book about flood...

Protection the entire glacier has and now it's being attacked essentially structurally by warmer water. and the warmer water is being driven by climate change? >> exactly. exactly. and what's important is that -- i mean, there's many things that are important about this, but one of the things that's important is it's a great example of how, you know, we talk about one degree of warming or two degrees of warming and what the changes that will bring to our world. and of course we're already seeing them in places like alaska, like you showed in your intro, and the wildfires in colorado right now....