So as the kids get older, we get into the bigger robots, obviously, that becomes more challenging, and we're working on figuring out how to address that need. The polar ice caps are melting.
The coral reefs are dissolving. The polar ice caps are shrinking. You're no stranger to violent storms and wildfires.
and 7 and photograph the the uh planet in Greater detail here you see a mosaic of images of the South polar ice cap and uh again more detailed temperature measurements showed that conditions on this ice cap were so cold that in fact
If we get our energy policy right, that's something everyone understands locally. They don't have to think about polar ice to get the message. So having that now as a vehicle to get people's awareness and their creativity thinking -- going -- I think is a good step.
book Walden is the great American literary meditation on the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Given widespread anxieties about the melting of the polar ice caps, it's not surprising that the 21st century has produced a good deal of arctic and Antarctic horror. Polar gothic is a recurring subgenre of horror, drawing on the long unexplored, and thus fundamentally
Days of Night in 2007. The Last Winter's trope of the melting polar ice releasing forces inimical to humanity recurs in The Thaw, 2009, with Val Kilmer as a climate scientist.
Present too much information to people, like an iceberg, if we were all in our canoe as the polar ice caps melt and icebergs won't exist anymore-- but imagine the polar ice caps still had icebergs in them, and we were in a boat, and you saw a giant iceberg. What you would do is, you would probably sail around it so your ship didn't crash into the iceberg.
right shortage you know they're reading stories about penguins and melting polar ice caps and you know they're studying
So I did. And the important part of that, for me, was that my dream wasn't squashed. And I'll tell you that skiing across the Antarctic continent and experiencing the polar ice cap was very much like what I imagined the moon to look like. So sometimes you think you're going to walk through a red door and that's that one dream, but sometimes it's blue.
really like their own version of NASA they were putting together every aspect of a human expedition to Mars I mean another surprising picture to say the least this is a closeup of that South polar ice cap that we looked at before
died whole region's burned and these this is exactly what the climate models are saying we'll see more of so as as changes like the polar ice caps melt in front of us and we know that those polar caps have that North North Pole has been
The glaciers grew into ice sheets. And that helped drive the temperature of the entire world to be much cooler. Now, this was a long-term trend then that continued to happen for many tens of millions the entire Earth has been covered in glaciers. No, what's happened is those polar ice sheets have grown to such size that at certain times they have crept down onto the continents. This is especially
And then we'll process it using standard off the shelf remote sensing software. It's the same stuff that biologists will use to look at animal habitats or climate scientists will look at to measure the melting polar ice caps. And at that point, once we've processed it and tried to pull out as much information as possible, and we think we see features that look like known features,
One of the things I've realized, as I speak about my trade, is that information is like an iceberg. Present too much information to people, like an iceberg, if we were all in our canoe as the polar ice caps melt and icebergs won't exist anymore-- but imagine the polar ice caps still had icebergs in them, and we were in a boat, and you saw a giant iceberg.
So this past October, I had the opportunity to see Antarctica from a whole different perspective. NASA invited me to join them on Operation Ice Bridge, which is the largest airborne survey of Earth's polar ice . We flew 12 hours every single day that the weather permitted on the DC-8, which has the most comprehensive suite of instruments ever flown