An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power Page #2
An engineer on one of
the helicopters took a video
during this temperature spike.
Those are parts of the glacier
just exploding
with the high temperatures.
Hey, Eric. How you doing?
Good to see you again.
So, you see the line
on the ridge here?
Yes.
That grey line is
where the ice surface was
back in the '80s.
- Not so long ago.
- Not long ago at all.
It's amazing to think
that just 30 years ago,
where we are right now,
it was all covered
by the big ice sheet.
- You ready for me?
- Yeah.
Yeah, I'll hold the ladder.
- Thank you, Bianca.
- Yeah, no problem, Al.
Welcome to Swiss Camp!
We have 20
automatic weather stations
measuring the climate.
Swiss Camp is just one of them.
This is the cumulative
height change of melt.
Yes. I see.
Since 2000 to now,
we lost 12 meters
- of ice at that elevation.
- Wow.
That was our former station,
level with the surface.
- Yes.
- Very deep pillars.
We came back next season.
That's where we are now.
This is okay here?
- Around there?
- Yes. Yeah.
That would be a hole you don't
- want to step in, right?
- Yes.
So, it's going
straight down there?
And since it's heavier than ice,
it pushes its way
underneath the ice sheet.
And we can measure
how the ice is lifted up
a few millimeters
to a centimeter.
And then the ice moves fast
and you reduce the friction.
And, in effect, the ice sheet
starts speeding up
in its flow toward the ocean.
That's correct.
So this makes the ice mass
like Swiss cheese.
It is frustrating that
for many years,
I've tried to communicate
that we've got to act
on the climate crisis.
But it's not happening
fast enough.
If I said
there weren't times when
I felt this was
a personal failure on my part,
I'd be lying.
So where
is all that water going?
I'll tell you
where some of it's going.
It's going into the streets
of Miami Beach, Florida.
High tides continue
to bring a flood of frustration.
Fort Lauderdale gets the award
for the "something you don't
see every day" video.
Fish swimming on Cordova Road.
Experts say in 30 years or so,
could be a drive in the ocean.
Downtown Miami could be awash.
We're showing you
an area that hasn't been
actually fixed at all,
as you can tell.
And then, on Wednesday,
we're gonna show you
some of the areas
that used to be like this,
but now we raised the road
and put in pumps.
We've seen dramatic results.
It's so much better.
So you raised the road with
saltwater-resistant materials?
Yes.
And what level of sea level rise
is this designed
to protect against?
We are building in about
a foot of sea level rise.
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