Page 43 - Ice Sheet News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Employment two years faster than the congressional budget office had estimated. >> reporter: even as president biden travels across the country to sell this bipartisan infrastructure law, the white house is also focusing on the second part of his economic agenda. as they head into the final month of this first year in office, the question is will that be passed before this first year ends? jeff zeleny, cnn, rosemont, minnesota. up next, a dire warning about the future of greenland's ice sheet. what a new report is saying about global warming in the arctic, and what it might mean for rising s...

So, for the first time ever, rain fell in greenland during the month of august at the highest point of their ice shading. it is obviously an indicator of the accelerating climate crisis. joining me is chief bill weir. >> it is hard to put into words. yes, if it rains one day, you shrug, that's life. this is two miles high in the coldest place in the world. i was just up there. the sheer scale of this ice sheet on the biggest island in the world is staggering. this followed a melt event in

Supplies being moved in. the drilling site is not an easy place to work. as well as being —35 degrees, that's in summer, it's also more than 3000 meters above sea level. this is what they're after. this ice sample was from an earlier drilling mission back in 2008. that recovered material from as far back as 800,000 years ago. the new mission plans to beat that. amy king is from the british antarctic survey, who are part of the project. great to have you on the programme. thanks very much for your time. when you make your list of goals for what you make your list of goals for what you were ho...

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 seems tiny against the edge of the vast ice sheet. and since i first filmed there, temperatures have just kept rising, and i that had seemed permanent has retreated. rising, an 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 story building sitting on top. it's alljust g...

The atmosphere has gone up every single year-— single year. so where would this lead us? the — single year. so where would this lead us? the early _ single year. so where would this lead us? the early computer - single year. so where would this - lead us? the early computer models couldn't be sure. there were lots of uncertainties, but the scenarios were already looking scary. the arctic was the hotspot, heating up the arctic was the hotspot, heating up much faster than the rest of the planet, and i was to return to it many times. it was a dream and that really unnerved me. it may be remot...