Henry N. Pollack, Ph.D: A World Without Ice

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🗓️ 5 November 2009

⏱️ 34 minutes

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A World Without Ice: Man’s Impact on Climate Change Henry N. Pollack, Ph.D., Professor of Geophysics, University of Michigan It has taken just three centuries for human growth and rising industrial economies to bring the delicate relationship between ice and humans to a dangerous precipice. Ice carved Earth’s landscape to its present state – the sharp Alpine peaks of Europe, the vast Great Lakes of North America, the majestic valleys of Yosemite National Park and the deeply incised fjords of Norway. But as the climate-change debate becomes more heated, are we at risk of losing these precious formations? This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on October 27, 2009. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There once was a woman who lived in a shoe. A size too snug, but what could she do?
0:06.0	But that's not where her story ends. Thanks to a little help from her Experian friends,
0:11.0	she got her score into much better shape and relocated to a box fresh new place, with room to grow and a mortgage to suit.
0:18.0	Now, she lives in a spacious four-bedroom cowboy boots.
0:23.3	Better your Experian credit score to help get mortgage ready.
0:26.5	Experience.
0:27.5	Better your score.
0:28.7	Better your story.
0:30.2	Welcome today's meeting of Climate One at the Commonwealth Club.
0:32.7	I'm Greg Dalton, the founder of Climate One.
0:35.1	It is my honor right now to introduce Henry Pollack,
0:38.6	Professor of Geophysics at the University of Michigan,
0:42.4	who will discuss his new book, A World Without Ice,
0:45.3	Man's Impact on Climate Change.
0:47.3	Please perfect.
0:49.1	Thank you very much.
0:50.5	It's a special pleasure to be here at the Commonwealth Club of California. I've listened to the
0:58.4	discussions from the Commonwealth Club on radio many times, but I never had a visual image of what
1:04.2	the Commonwealth Club was actually like. So now it's indelible on my memory.
1:15.1	I want to talk to you about my book,
1:19.6	but I'm going to take a moment or two to tell you a little bit about myself so you know where I'm coming from with this book.
1:22.7	I am basically an earth scientist.
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