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Arctic Melting & Rising

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4.7583 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2015

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Few of us will ever venture to the faraway Arctic. But our entire planet is affected by environmental and economic changes happening in the frozen north. William Collins,Director, Climate and Ecosystem Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Alex Levinson, Executive Director, Pacific Environment Sergey Petrov, Consul General of the Russian Federation in San Francisco Hilde Janne Skorpen, Consul General for Norway in San Francisco This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on September 22, 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:25.4

Climate One at the Commonwealth Club is at the forefront of the global debate about energy,

0:29.9

economy, and the environment.

0:31.8

Bringing together the brightest and most provocative leaders of our time, climate one is the

0:36.4

place where big ideas get heard.

0:38.6

With thoughtful and insightful discussions on policy, business, science, and culture,

0:43.1

Climate One founder Greg Dalton, gets to the heart of the matter. It's our future. It's time to

0:48.7

come together. I'm Greg Dalton, and today on Climate One, we're talking about the Arctic in a warming world.

0:56.0

President Obama's recent trip to the Arctic, the first for a sitting U.S. president,

1:00.7

shined a light on the vast wilderness in the indigenous people in Alaska.

1:04.9

Now that the president and the headlines have moved on, we'll discuss what's going on up north

1:09.3

and why Americans in the lower 48 should

1:11.5

care about a region few will visit and most of us know very little about. For starters, European

1:17.8

merchandise Californians buy at the store may soon come through the Arctic rather than the

1:22.8

Panama Canal. Drilling for oil and natural gas is moving forward, and tourism and other economic

1:28.3

opportunities are opening up. That's because the sea ice is melting at an alarming rate.

1:34.0

We'll discuss all that and more over the next hour and take questions from our live audience

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