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Vermont State Police received a report just after 7 a.m. Saturday that an enclosed side-by-side UTV, with two people inside, fell through the ice on Keeler Bay.

Vermont State Police received a report just after 7 a.m. Saturday that an enclosed side-by-side UTV, with two people inside, fell through the ice on Keeler Bay.

Will be. i didn't really understand it until i went up there. i think i have a clip, let's look at this real quick. >> this is the ice layer here. if you were to lick it, it tastes like salt water. >> it's salty. >> whoa, really salty. >> now you know you're on the ocean. snow and ice doesn't seem very complex, but when you get to how all of these things come together to form our sea ice pack and how that is changing, it is all pointing to thinning ice, shrinking ice cover. they measure the sea ice, the land ice, they measure the difference year over year and compare it to what we're experienc...

Change will lead the $20 billion bureaucracy charged with studying the man-made effects of climate change. one of the nasa programs is called operation ice bridge, which tracks how climate change is affecting the earth's all-important polar regions. msnbc's jacob soboroff went to greenland to see how nasa collects this crucial information. >> reporter: the arctic sea ice has been changing dramatically in the last several decades. looking at the data in a scientific sense, i've seen changes in the thickness, in the exstent of the ice. and all that's pointing to thinning ice, shrinking ice cover...

Oklahoma republican, jim bridenstein to lead nasa. bridenstein who has no background in science just squeaked by the senate on a peter line vote, and now a republican congressman who says he's not sure humans are the primary drivers of climate change will lead the $20 billion bureaucracy charged with studying the man-made effects of climate change. one of the nasa programs is called operation ice bridge, which tracks how climate change is affecting the earth's all-important polar regions. msnbc's jacob soboroff went to greenland to see how nasa collects this crucial information. >> reporter: t...