Elizabeth Kolbert on What Happens "When the Arctic Melts"

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🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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As the Greenland ice sheet melts, more freshwater is pouring into the oceans and that’s triggering feedback loops that could mean disastrous coastal sea level rise and drought. New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert reported from the summit of the Greenland ice sheet for her new piece, “When the Arctic Melts.” “If we cross the tipping point for the Greenland ice sheet,” she writes, “we may not even notice. And yet the world as we know it will be gone.” Kolbert joins us. Guests: Elizabeth Kolbert, staff writer, The New Yorker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:37.6	perhaps Greenland's melting ice sheet serves as the most dramatic example of what catastrophe could lie ahead.
1:44.4	As the ice turns to water, it is triggering consequences all across the planet.
1:49.0	Elizabeth Colbert looks at what the fate of Greenland means for the rest of us on Earth.
1:53.3	Her latest article for The New Yorker is When the Arctic Meltz.
1:56.9	We speak with Colbert about her recent visit to the icy country.
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2:16.8	Welcome to Forum. I'm Leslie McClurg. I'm in today from Mina Kim. And the floodgates may already be open. Greenland's ice sheet is melting and it's melting much faster than climate models predicted. Scientists are watching huge walls of ice, flatten, and slip away.
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