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Keywords
Aerial view
Banners
Climate (campaign title)
Climate change
Climate change impacts
Glacier melt
Glaciers
Global warming
Greenpeace campaigners
Greenpeace inflatables
Helicopters
Ice
KWCI (GPI)
Lakes
Melting
MY Arctic Sunrise
Rivers
Science
Water
Greenland Melt Lakes VNR
NASA-funded expedition to Greenland to collect evidence demonstrating that that the emerging melt lakes and rivers above Greenland's Ice Sheet are a direct link to climate change. American glaciologist Jason Box and Australian polar explorer John Hoelscher use surveying equipment to estimate the volume of melt water in the lakes over the ice sheet by determining the relationship between the depth of the lakes and it's shade of blue. The volume of water is important because it plays a role in accelerating the movement of the ice sheet, this is turn affects sea level rise as the ice flows towards the coast and into the sea.
Unique identifier:
GP11DP
Type:
Video
Shoot date:
16/08/2005
Locations:
Eqip Sermia Glacier
,
Greenland
,
North America
Credit line:
© Greenpeace
Duration:
4m16s
Audio format:
Natural
File size
390MB
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
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Greenland Climate Change Tour
Greenpeace ship MV Arctic Sunrise (MVAS) tour to the Kangerdlussuaq Fjord in Greenland that until a few years ago was filled with a massive glacier that has retreated 5 km in the last few years due to global warming. Greenpeace, with scientists from the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, USA are documenting evidence of climate change. Preliminary findings indicate Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier on Greenland's east coast could be one of the fastest moving glaciers in the world with a speed of almost 14 kilometres per year. Outlet glaciers like Kangerdlugssuaq transport ice from the heart of the Greenland Ice Sheet to the ocean and discharge icebergs which contribute to sea level rise.
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