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tv   Into the Ice  Deutsche Welle  January 19, 2024 5:15am-6:01am CET

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the capsule should rates the spice dyson on it says critical care looking up at that's open out, the film is mixed with the voyage across the expanse as the vice of 3 mans when link license. i'm anthony held for me in the team. thanks for your company. and stay with us if you can, the fast fashion as an environmental nice clothing, graveyard image of land desert. this is where things wealthy industrial nations no longer need and lightest textile ways get stranded fashion. watch now, on youtube, the 40 percent of the world population lives by an ocean and 230000000 people live at
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less than one meter above sea level. we have no idea how high dams will need to be to protect these populations. what i show lines will need to look like a web people, or should live scientists believe it's the want to underneath the ice that affects the speed with which the ice is moving on. my next expedition on join professor island hubbard. as he explores this very phenomenon, the state that was the food up there, it looked like from india and i have some also to make sure you finger printing. yeah. have you paid? looked at it. yeah. i think you think there's plenty, i noticed the ok if you spring,
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that's cool and that's fine because i was going to get a scientist on to the ice in different ways. but those who examined it by climbing down into it can be counted on one hand. allan is one of them. for the past 15 years, he has spent more than 3 months a year on the ice. and when i us don't about him, she says, i think it's the only time you can have the cold in the calm and quiet guy. ok, so he's known for doing extreme things like working in the mood now. i need to get with them. he's fascinated by, whoops, here in tyson, and he discovers things we're going to be very big florida inside or outside. we'll say the site is all a complete surprise. yeah,
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this is cross cones go a full, i'm a pilot of the royal danish air force and chief instructor for survival training on the greenland ice sheet. klaus is responsible for all safety on this expedition of well, why should i be the bottom part of mr. like legitimate to say, oh, if you know you also know you complain, it'll be scared to be there just approach at all with respect. you'll see we take this very seriously. we have our equipment and we check it again. and again, if i might pester you sometimes, but everything has to be right. when we go down, you'll be more on your own than in train and come with it. there is no one to come and get you. something goes wrong during their and the your on your own while i'm fine for the
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a little fun the, you know, that tingling feeling you get and you'll bailey, when you're about to do something exciting. that's what i'm feeling right now. the
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the, the, there is several big moonlight in this area. this one is the biggest, the we have 5 days to reach the bottom of that. how the plan is we make the big sound up here. this leaving tense down here and the turn it over there. we'll climb a little deeper every day. you didn't climb down into the, on the, in one day. here on the street were a bad 50 k o me and vice. a tough thing to this region of the ice sheet before
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and done some surveys of the movie land around here, and they have to participate in this region. yeah, hopefully, we're not going inside today, right? we've just checking in with them and we'll look see what we're in for. i have a wreck here and of the every summer snow and ice melt along the rim of the ice sheet. the mount water forms some fine blue lakes and rivers.
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the water flows downwards. finding small cracks and crevices. you only need a little bit of water before it will create a big ho. i'm moving now. the water digs deep and wide to the, the water entering, the ice becomes part of the in the structure of the glass. yeah. the water flows from this surface into the ice and then towards the sea, the it acts as a lubricant causing the ice to move it as a great to speeds imagine ice cube. so in a wet table,
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the more water the bank today slide, the researchers of assumed meltwater early escapes. the ice seems late summer leaving the bottom of the ice drained of water in the winter. without meltwater the ice slides towards the ocean more slowly and keeps more of its mass, the level of the theory of highly ah, she moves has been developed from small gleiss. he is in the scandinavia, the alps. i'm rarely there comes a point where those theories no longer hold when you have big eye sheets and the very faint cause. recent measurements indicate melbourne to remains under the ice even in winter. either the channel remains
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empty because all the mountain walter drains away. well, there was a smooth surface of frozen water table. if this is the case, then there may be liquid wants at both, and as well as in the ice. and water will run off in winter to, ah, predictions of how quickly sea levels will rise. would then be too optimistic, very careful that never poses in this when you go see the crack them down here, just in front of you guys. you have to check it before it go cross. this could be snow also. okay. you don't know how far the crack ocean. okay. that's. it's actually the nice dangers time. it used to be up here in spring shapes of snow that usually covers everything well. but in all time, you have a little dusting of snow and it hides things. but it's not strong enough to hold you away. it's actually a hard time to be
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a 5th of the exhibits you can come and have a look if you like. i'm the new foreigners and where i am. stay behind this point, all the info. you know, the today's plan is to study only the oper meters of the how we need to get a sense of how safe it is before we start this. and
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the, we really have very little idea of the role of this and the role of these movements and there was thousands and thousands of these across the whole i shape. we have a little bit of g, a physics data, the radar and the like that we can send things done to figure out what's going down here. we have lots of theories of biotech, only enough, very few ohms evaluations of it. and there's a good reason why there's no observe ations, but cuz that's quite strange and intimidating prices to go inside every class. they're all addressed. almost failed by say, all the just of, of the adventure. and this is what it suffice for me. that's the beauty of ice in glasses and studying with the
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what would be not an ice crew the so you uh, how big all you know 10 years much a beautiful or there was
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a lot of ours. okay. the huge variety back into the the, i'll do it in small steps. i think we won't go that far today. okay. we have no idea how deep the hole is. all we know is that we each have full, 200 meter long roads. klaus. i'll go down here. yes.
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okay. so it's scary. it is. it makes it fun. yes. boundaries are they are to be crossed. try to turn to the right and look time the try to enjoy it. i knew is not easy. i need to calm down fast. will take it in small steps the, the, the,
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the icicles are drifting because it's so warm. today the island says the zip content about 60 meters down the
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to look up a lot of stuff slowing down the,
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it's huge. if you drop something and listen, you can tell it still a long way down the i still can see the bottom. it's bob deeper than expected. i think so. this is as far as we dad to go today, the chair must be 1520 makes is across the smooth lab. so we're going to
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lower. busy and then have an explore, see where it goes. quite intimidating. i think you find it a little bit exciting than your boss. yeah. you know, it's good to be in state places with good views and that's uh, going up. but the cold calls when you're pretty crazy the all
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of it's a strangely sign into morning. we will need that extra cup of coffee columns and dahlan have decided i shouldn't draw fee, crowns, and dahlan have decided i shouldn't join them. the reason is simple. it's not cold enough and the ice is too dangerous. i would have loved to a film that is sent but to be honest, i'm also a little relieved. the primary thing is i use that polls don't on, you know, off there are some huge icicle starting there. we'll try to avoid nervous about the rooms. but all the things that you can't control me, the other thing when it comes to you, how deep are you going to say right now it looks like a 118 meters. that's as far as i know, nobody has ever gone that the pin total of 118 meters is
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a locked the house, you know, going down? no. what do you film it for me? sure. so here's the camera. i don't know if there is a scale for this, but if there is a scale from $1.00 to $5.00, what's this going to be a tips close to a 5 if know, so 5, that's why we won't teach you a long. it's too dangerous, or is it meant by provided? i need the toilet. yes. or couldn't fail myself if i saw the nurse? it's gonna get ready next week. i'm getting to know islands clocks this morning. he's storing the,
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i'm not worried about me. i'm worried about those people dependent on me. i've had a good life leverage. 53 lovely kids. i've heard a lot of fun and a lot of adventure. this being part of it for sure. sometimes living. yeah. well i grow or why? because i can't wait to have grandkids. the
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i'm on the ball. no, it's solid. after a 175 meters counts reaches the bottom. but the many pieces of ice tell them it's not safe to be here. the
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greenland inland ice is usually not flat. it's cracked, bent and broken. there's only one explanation for such a pass at the horizontal surface. as i have found a frozen one to the table the
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oh, how long does the same i've ever done? it's just how do i can dive in here? we're going to get all this incredible, if you guys go to like oregon parts, it is just like nice to own cathedral samples. so massive incredible. it was a few months ago. and what we've landed on here is the water table shape. i want to express the, the other side of that.
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they are rumbling i guess it's just it looks very on the plan was to drill through the frozen water table to see if there was liquid water below it. but due to the warm temperature, it's simply too dangerous to be down here. and it will take island and klaus 2 hours to get back to the top, the, the, the, we have to come back when it's colder and the ice is safer. only then will
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it be possible for island to kind of realities, measurements and test is hypothesis that there is a liquid water down down for an ice find is really interesting, but the water table is so high speed recess. if it's working properly, it should drain a lot water away, but it's not our protections of global sea level rise could be quite a bit off. that's a complete disaster for the coastal regions of the planet. ready the
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i receive a short text telling me to call immediately. it's from jason who is in greenland to walk up one of the oldest research stations in greenland called swiss. com. is dan with his friend and mentor professor, comrades, steph. and the, the temperature still looks the range is not that tech, but that can download to data easily. but i don't know why i need to call hey, listen, i'm on my way home cuz i was ordered home by my employer
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family. so here on an airport, i said we, we lost connie. at this point, i should probably explain who professor i should have them is called a hutch deaf and connie, as jason calls him, was the person who got jason into studying greenland. gracie is an ice sheet. he's been a research of a faulty is collecting data before anyone else even thought about how the climate affects the ice. at 1st, i can't wrap my head around what has happened. but connie is dead. he were working next to and he said, when we last saw him, i'm gonna go and check the data. he just pulled a memory card from weather station hours go by. we start to wonder where he is going look for him. didn't find anything is tense.
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we go into emergency mode, spend hours and hours like turning the camp upside down. we call to the search and rescue. the royal danish air force. they fly in. they're taking and for read and a high resolution pictures of the camp they were, they were circle. i need to cancel, i'm looking for footsteps. by the next morning we had put enough pieces of logic together to focus on one place. and we sent the ice cavers down. and sure enough that there's
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a busted open floor of the garage that is got water underneath and is clear evidence that something destroyed lice layer and the water the thing is that in the cold, fresh water, you're not gonna floats. we didn't know his location until it was far too late. so many people loved loved him. come on the 4th. so many people in here was a visionary for climate. he started his measurements before greenland was in the
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headlight. the loo, lisa rescue workers showed their respect a comrade stuff and he meant a lot to them to the the, the
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i liked when you were saying the other day to about the difference between risk and hazard. and i actually had to was actually google being with the differences between the risk and hazard and so hazardous, something that has the potential for harm. and then the risk is the probability that something actually would happen. i really know that you guys take those risk seriously and i can't imagine myself ever saying you can't go back there because yeah, let's get the data we are taking kind of a higher level of safety now that the accident yeah. has happened it's. it's
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a reminder, yeah, that we because has, there's exist the, the thing is i feel somehow even stronger than ever that i have to go back. that's to continue these measurements that we started. i think that my life isn't too important to not take that risk. and i, i know that, like connie, people will say that this was a place where,
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you know, i'm dedicating my life and, and that's what connie did, the at the, we are back at the big blue line and it is much colder at this time the, this time alan has brought along a friend, francesco soto,
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a geology professor. the question is whether we will still find a frozen water table this time around. and if we can stay long enough to drill through it to see if there was liquid warrant out underneath, weren't exactly the same spot. so i'm gps position looks very different. but the devil is in the detail. the devil is always in the measurements. the field measurements and every time we look at the systems are always so much more complex and far more interesting scientifically, the copies the,
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this time, the moon on winds its way down like a spiral staircase, with various chambers off to the side. the i cannot to be ready to dispute ready completed the
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task of the cable wire ice. i talk to flight. crazy. beautiful. come around the corner. we've got another end. right. so it's a total of 6 to meet the
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good. yeah, we have all the, it's really warm as well. where the water it's from the summer now. i mean really you wouldn't want to fall off in it, but it's not. so when they have the ambient temperature, their temperature ends at ac dogs. so that the, you have a wireless wired system, the temperature for the pressure on me for instance, is on hopefully that working but your fingers might be the water table. yeah. it could be
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the is incredibly so it's not a matter of the that one for the drain, the way at the end of the summer. but it fits, it contains energy over winter releases that energy into the ice around it. and then lowering this interior region to continue to accelerate not just in the summer, but also in the wind. there's no going back on. it's very, very difficult to bicycle environment back. nothing other than an ice age is
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the we found mount water inside the ice, which is new and important information. it might be that the ice contains huge amounts of liquid, want to that final ice as melted the even our best models have predicted. in the lifespan of our children, temperatures and sea levels will rise faster and faster until the world might well become unrecognizable. one seems like
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a doomsday scenario from a science fiction story is becoming reality. we must listen to the scientists. those who say we have no time to waste the nature is trying to tell us something the
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