Above, Jeff Goodell on PBS talking about his long-time-coming book, The Water Will Come.
Jeff talks about a visit to Greenland, which is featured early on in the book. That was part of the first Dark Snow expedition in 2013.
Here, in video from that trip, I talked to Jeff as we had just touched down at a point near the calving wall of Illulisat (Jacobshaven) Glacier in Greenland. Jeff mentions the moment in the book, as we were standing on bare rock that had recently emerged from the melting ice, and quite possibly no humans had touched before.
Below, shortly after the interview above, we climbed back in the chopper, and flew along the glacier calving wall. Jeff had a window seat, and was trying to shoot with his iPhone – I handed him a camera, while continued to shoot from a front seat.
Tomorrow, how 2 cities, blue state, and red state, are planning for sea level rise.
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http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=1619000
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_global_station.htm?stnid=680-140
3 inches in the next 100 years does not seem like much to worry about.
And the usual lie.
That’s 3″ attributable to the expansion of the water and ignores new water inputs
Try again
Shock horror, who would have thunk such dastardly thoughts of our resident genius Master Bates AKA dear Jerry (Where has Tom vanished to.?)
The 3 inches includes the expansion of water and the new water to date.
If I’m not mistaken, the newly-exposed surface along the ice cap where they held the interview is covered with glacial “rock flour”, more low-albedo substance that can get blown over the ice.