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Today, Explained

An inconvenient glacier

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

While the world’s leaders are meeting at COP27 to discuss climate change, Antarctica’s massive Thwaites Glacier is melting. The world’s coastlines face catastrophic consequences. Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell went to see it with his own eyes. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited by Matt Collette and Sean Rameswaram, who also hosted. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Leaders and representatives from nearly 200 countries have been gathering in Egypt for

0:06.2

COP27.

0:07.2

It's the United Nations Annual Climate Change Conference.

0:10.6

Many people feel COP27 is the world's best hope for climate action, but many critics

0:15.6

say it's just greenwashing with little to really actually show for.

0:20.2

What is the use that we want it?

0:22.2

No!

0:23.2

What do we want?

0:24.2

They're trying to figure out a mission standards.

0:25.6

They're trying to figure out who should pay for global warming.

0:28.0

They're talking about food scarcity, and we all know what happens if they don't make

0:32.2

progress.

0:33.2

Doomsday isn't coming next week, but it's out there, it's waiting for us.

0:37.4

In the meantime, there's a Doomsday Glacier, the size of Florida that's hanging on by its

0:42.8

fingernails, and when it breaks apart, sea levels are going to jump.

0:46.7

If there's one piece of ice in the world that our modern world is dependent upon staying

0:52.9

stable, it's that one.

0:55.1

The Doomsday Glacier is coming on today's Explained.

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