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new research shows that antarctica is melting. while it takes a lot of ice to melt the ocean levels they say that is in fact what is happening. and they believe just an incremental rise in the ocean levels made the damage worse when hurricane sandy hit the east coast and took so much away from us. the big question is the future, of course, and a new kind of normal for all of those living along the water. it is where we begin tonight, our chief environmental affairs correspondent, anne thompson has more on what we learned. >> reporter: well, the information comes from a group of international scientists, brian and shows we're living climate changes in real time. this july was the warmest month on record. and tonight, there is new information that reveals just how fast the world's ice sheets are melting. the numbers are staggering. 344 billion metric tons of ice melting in antarctica and greenland a year. the weight of more than a million empire state buildings, the information was published in the journal, from researchers who look

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we went again because when you're in antarctica, you want to do as much as you can.ou're never going to be there again. >> lex sees it has changed. big pieces of it are falling off rapidly and crashing into the water. cool! >> pieces were falling off. it was a lot of noise. and so we were there for i think maybe six minutes, something like that. and then at one point when we were thinking, okay, nothing is going to happen. >> and just when lex thinks the dramatic show is over, the iceberg gives an unexpected finale. >> it just fell apart. a perfect implosion. and this big chunks of ice coming towards us. like the iceberg spit them out. >> the giant iceberg collapses plunging into the water. the impact from the implosion could easily overturn the little raft. despite the danger, lex isn't feeling fear. >> the adrenaline rush was enormous. we were all shouting and screamin screaming. >> quickly the two guides maneuver the wrap away from the falling chunks of ice and any potential large waves. you can still see some chunks hitting the boats. >> sheer excitement takes ov

the glaciers of greenland and antarctica are continuing to melt faster than they grow.causes a small but steady rise in sea level worldwide. however, between now and the year 2100, there may be a significant increase in sea level due to the so-called greenhouse effect. carbon dioxide and water vapor in the atmosphere act like the glass of a greenhouse. they let in the sunlight, but trap some of the reradiated infrared heat energy. without this greenhouse effect, the earth would become too cold to support human life. but since the industrial revolution began to mechanize our world in the late 18th century, we've been adding tremendous quantities of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. the first of these was coal-- the fossil remains of vegetation. burning coal produced the steam which powered steamships, factories, and locomotives. it also released vast amounts of carbon dioxide, which until then had been stored underground for millions of years. since the early days of the industrial revolution, the world's reliance on fossil fuels has increased dra

had more open ocean there than we have ever recorded before in antarctica we are seeing melting thereare places where you're getting more snowfall and that's because of global warming too because we have more moisture in the atmosphere so we can have more snow in some places but in other parts we are seeing melting in major calving of icebergs on a regular basis so. so the net net is that the glaciers are melting all of them right and we're seeing the impacts because we're seeing the sea level rise you know sea level rise says from climate change has been seven or eight inches over the last century in places the like along the atlantic coast of north america it's even greater it's more like a foot and that kind of sea level rise contributes the type of impacts that we're seeing with her. satellite warrants and i'd say bigger picture discussion on climate change that it was. it is easy to be easy if you. well go back to finance bigger picture discussion climate change debunking the denial. and with us tonight on tonight's panel dr amanda stout senior scientist of climate energy program

and he said no actually snow fall in antarctica is higher than it's ever been in the glaciers are growing. but the truth is that glaciers all across the globe are melting at remarkable rates i mean we're uncovering land and artifacts that we haven't seen in hundreds and hundreds of years and the sea ice in the arctic this year smashed the previous record by significant amount in i mean a loss of signal loss of sea ice we have more open ocean there than we have ever recorded before in antarctica we are seeing melting there are places where you're getting more snowfall and that's because of global warming too because we have more moisture in the atmosphere so we can have more snow in some places but in other parts we are seeing melting in major calving of icebergs on a regular basis. so the net net is that the glaciers are melting all right and we're seeing the impacts because we're seeing the sea level rise you know sea level rises from climate change has been seven or eight inches over the last century in places the like along the atlantic coast of north america it's even greater it's mor

antarctica is an example. there's almost zero precipitation at the south pole. we can look at point barrow, alaska, which receives only four or five inches of rain a year and has very little vegetation. yet the soil there is water sodden. there are ponds and lakes. it's hardly what you'd think of as a desert. on the other hand, some deserts have a great deal of vegetation. the mojave desert of eastern california has vast stands of giant yuccas-- the joshua trees. to develop a simple definition of a desert, we can find a common denominator in each of these harsh desert landscapes-- from the polar regions of antarctica and northern alaska to the vegetated sands of the mojave desert. deserts are regions with infrequent precipitation, averaging less tha 25 centimeters per year. in most deserts, evaporation rates are high enough to quickly remove this moisture. to understand the origin of the earth's hot subtropical deserts, the largest on the planet, we must first consider the equator. like the deserts themselves, the equator is a hot place, but it is also very humi

>> these pictures seem to be just iceberg in antarctica in 2002. >> what gives them that sort of wave appearance and that distinctive blue color? >> the color of icebergs has always been blue. photos that you see that are white is covered by snow. and sometimes they turn over revealing their bottom side which is still pure condensed ice. it is, therefore, blue. >> how is it that the truth hasn't come out until now? people have believed for a long time on the internet these are frozen waves? >> i have no idea myself. it's actually physically impossible for a wave to freeze at that speed. i think what makes people believe that is the general shape and color and ice forming. >> there is serious flooding and whales in england. and our favorite rescue team at it again. this is the rescue team in north wales. you can see the water has risen so high it is just under the door knockers on the doors. but you can see this rescue team has a boat and getting a woman from the second floor to safety. so far, 900 people had to be evacuated because of the flooding. this is because the river reached 14

how much what it depends on is how warm the climate gets and how quickly the ice in greenland and antarctica breaks off and falls into the sea. >> reporter: extreme weather with extreme price tags, becoming more commonplace. anne thompson, nbc news, new york. >>> and still ahead, is there a connection between pregnancy and the flu and autism? we'll have a look at one of the stories in the news today. >>> and later, how some of the war heroes spent this veteran's day, making a difference for people who could really use them right now. >>> we are back as promised with a reality check on a story that was in the news today. right as flu season arrives, a new study in the journal of pediatrics found that women who had the flu when they were pregnant were more likely to have a child later diagnosed with autism. we have asked our chief medical editor, dr. nancy snyderman, to put this in some perspective. >> we're putting it in perspective because it scares a lot of people. important study because this is out of denmark, covering over 96,000 children. and because of their homogeneous population and

a thick sheet of ice on a lake in antarctica has been sealed off for many years. what did they find there? joining us now is a scientist from the reno, nev. research institute. what did they find at the bottom of the lake that has been sealed off for thousands of years? >> it is a very dark environment. there is no light from the surface. it is very cold. we think it is one of the most stable cold environment that also has a liquid water. the water in the lower lake ice is in this spiderweb network, connected in different layers from 16 meters all the way down to 27 meters. >> sounds amazing. what did you find? gregg's we drove our scores from the a lake surface. -- >> we drilled from the lake's surface. we found a syrupy brian. when we brought the brine to a surface we looked to see if there was any life. we found there was quite abundant cellular life. much to our surprise. and then we took the brine back to the lab to detect if there was metaphorically active. -- metabolic lee active. >> could it be supporting live down there, like fish, or loch ness monster? >

starting in antarctica, he travels to south america. day three sees him running through atlanta in the united states before heading to london on day four. on day five his marathon takes him past the egyptian pyramids, then on to dubai, on day seven crossing the finishing line at the opera house in sydney. the 32-year-old is no stranger to grueling adventures. earlier this year he won an arduous marathon at the north pole. before that he ran 2,500 miles from scotland to the sahara. he initially wanted to run to nepal, and i put my foot down about that one. this one doesn't seem so bad. >> with a challenge this big, there are likely to be some difficulties along the way. >> there is running, and there is the logistics getting all the flights coordinated. i am sure the muscles will be aching. i won't get that much sleep. i will be jet-lagged. >> but he already knows how he will celebrate if he succeeds. a wee drum of whiskey followed by a long sleep. "bbc news." >> totally crazy. there is no way i would be able to do that. that brings toda

>researchers have also combined their debt on antarctica. little has changed here. but one region to the red -- to the west is melting fast. and the leading scientists all agree. >> people have been confused in the past because there have been different messages over different time frames. we find that sometimes the ice sheets grow and sometimes they shrink. you need to be able to measure them over 20 years to get a true story. and the true story is that they have decreased. >> thank is have used all kinds of methods to measure them. -- scientists have used all kinds of methods to measure them. i was with this research teen. more recently come -- more recently, a satellite has joined the region. at >> this is the most definitive study so far because they have brought together findings from 10 satellite and all key researchers. they have concluded that it has melted 11 millimeters to sea level in the past 20 years. and the rate is accelerating. it does not mean much right now, but could be serious if the trend continues. >> the next big challenge will predict -- will

. >> what it depends on is how warm the climate gets and how quickly the ice in greenland and antarctica breaks off and falls into the sea. >> reporter: extreme weather with extreme price tags, becoming more commonplace. anne thompson, nbc news, new yo york. >>> and still ahead, is there a connection between pregnancy and the flu and and civil. we'll have a look at one of the stories in the news today. >>> and later, how some of the war heroes spent this veteran's day, making a difference for people who could really use them right now. their name on the door, and their heart into their community. small business saturday is a day to show our support. a day to shop at stores owned by our friends and neighbors. and do our part for the businesses that do so much for us. on november 24th, let's get out and shop small. but i still have a runny nose. [ male announcer ] dayquil doesn't treat that. huh? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus rushes relief to all your worst cold symptoms, plus it relieves your runny nose. [ sighs ] thank you! [ male announcer ] you're welcome. that's the cold truth!

. >> reporter: the researchers, including nasa scientists, say antarctica and greenland have lost nearly five trillion tons of ice since 1992, causing sea levels to rise by nearly half an inch. >> we didn't really know that we were going to find such a dramatic speed-up. >> reporter: nasa's erik ivins worked on the study. scientists say human activity, such as burning fossil fuels, is warming the atmosphere. >> each year, we're getting longer and longer melt seasons. this year, we had one of the longest melt seasons that we've ever seen. >> reporter: melting ice sheets now account for 30% of the rise in ocean levels, making flooding from storms such as hurricane sandy even more destructive. along the california coast, the ocean is expected to rise another three to five feet by the end of the century. 3.5 million confidential californians live within three feet of sea level. >> eventually, we will be consumed by higher elevation of the ocean. >> reporter: jefferson wagner is the former mayor of malibu. he said some beaches there have lost five to six feet of sand in recent years due to st

house science committee what's your take oh well tom my take is in three weeks i'm going to be in antarctica where a section of the southern polar cap the size of new york is breaking away from that from that pole the same way that we saw in eyes in greenland an entire ice island break away two years ago that was the size of manhattan while that cabot what that catastrophe is taking place we have the republicans putting into office there guys lamar smith from texas now look you don't have to dig deep at all to understand who lamar smith is this is a guy who got seven hundred thousand dollars from the energy industry and they only asked get a little more to do one thing and that is to be the mouthpiece for the energy industry so what he's done is he's been the mouthpiece out telling the american public in telling the media a there's no such thing as global climate change that's where he started off and then he morphed into the fact well if there is something called global climate change it wasn't caused by fossil fuel and tom i think what's so upset about lamar smith being in that position he

rethink possible. 52 feel pwlibing global warming polar ice sheet in green land antarctica melting three faster than they did in the 1990's. green land in particular the is of concern. the melt rate there has grown from about 55 billion tons a year in the 1990's to almost 2 90 billion tons a year right now. dramatic change. >> mean time despite the planet heat nasa scientist say there's plenty of ice on mercury. space agency mercury orbiting probe messenger has found ice at the planet north and south pole. scientist say it's at least one and a half feet deep and possibly as much as 65 feet deep. that is despite the fact that the size of mercury facing the sun is a amazingly hot. 700 -- 4 30 degrees celsius at the equator. it's closest to the sun as you know. >>> back on our planet in the central valley near merced scientist and environmentalist work to go save what they describe as national treasure. restoration of the san joaquin river is a story we have been reporting on for years. yesterday abc 7 news mark matthews went along to witness historic milestone. >>reporter: scientist with t

the real story was about--the real evidence had-held in the ice cores up to antarctica to to arctic.took time to stop and understand the empirical evidence as opposed to my my misconceptions. i started this in the late 90s but it wasn't until 2005 when the ice work started get going that i got locked into the trajectory that became the movie and ice survey. >> jennifer: you're in position to provide other i am empirical evidence, which is what your film is about. what is happening with the film? do you think it's changing the mind of skeptics? >> i've been amazed, really gratified to have shown the film in rooms in many cases had a lot of skeptical conservative audience members and i've been delighted to see that many of them came up to me afterwards and said, thank you for presenting the evidence. i thought this would be a vague propaganda based on computer models. but thanks to your tangible touchable evidence, this is real. the computer models are quick good and quite effective in predicting the course of different events. but 20, 25 years ago that was not always the case. >> cenk

. >>> a new study finds the ice sheet covering much of greenland and antarctica is melting fast and causing the ocean to rise. the findings are the result of 20 years of data. since 1992, the oceans rose 11 millimeters. a police officers act of kindness is now a global sensation. a tourist took this photo of the policeman buying shoes for a homeless man and putting them on his feet. he posted on facebook. it is now being shared, liked and commented on by hundreds of thousands of people. >>> very inspirational. wonderful anytime, especially this time of year. thank you very much. we are three days away from sunday night's live broadcast of cnn heroes. the annual salute to the top ten heroes of the year. this helps the honor rees do more to help each other. chef serrato, one of last year's top ten, is a perfect example. he's grown from feeding hungry kids living in motels to helping them and their families move into their own homes. take a look. >> who likes the pasta? >> me. >> reporter: every night, the chef serves free meals to 300 motel kids in anaheim, california. it's work that he was h

he demilitarized antarctica gave the famous farewell address. the second-term presidents. the problem is nixon was so rotten and george w. bush. there teds to bends to be this thing of a curse. >> let me suggest because i do look back at the second roosevelt term as a problem because he went very conservative again, cut sp braus usought us into econd part of the great depression. i think eisenhower had the big problem with sherman adams who betrayed him for money basically. this is a theory and it may be changed by history. first president, first term you pick the best people you can for your cabinet. the best people around you because you've been spending your whole life looking f you promote everybody from within. >> you are a jolly good fellow and you don't quite have that team of rivals that tough thing around you where people can say, mr. president, you're wrong on this one. cabinet members that challenge you. you bring cronies up and that seems like n i'm not naming names here, but the people around bill clinton the second term did not end

i went to antarctica which was phenomenal. must have seen by actual count at least 1 million penguins. i went kayaking. i took a dive into the arctic sea, antarctica sea. >> what did you see? >> it was not very long. i was in and out. it was electric shock treatment. i did a tough biking trip in mayorca. my wife and i have been married for 50 years. so we took our family and two other families who had similar celebrations to a wonderful resort in tuscany and had a great italian summer. i spent a lot of time at the olympics doing biggest says, one on world war ii what london went through at that time, and others on individuals. and i did kind of a tongue in cheek essay on why we love everything british more than they love everything american. i mean, we're crazy about their royalty and about their rock and roll and about their fashion. and i got tracy ullman to comment on it. that was worth the visit alone. i do like the flexibility. the reason i left is because i wanted to have more flexibility in my schedule. now, if you look

if you are ever asked a question on a game show, what animal's found on every continent except antarctica. you want to hold him? you can hold him. >> i will let your guy hold him. >> one thing you want to do is have a glove. you see the talons? you heard of the bald eagle. a bald eagle has 1,000 pounds of pressure per square inch. if that was a bald eagle, it would go through his skin, through the muscle, break his bone in a split second. that's how powerful the talons are. see how he turns his head like a corkscrew. the reason is his eyes are so big, they cannot move in the eye socket. if you see a pretty girl go by, you go like this without your wife seeing you. well, he can't do that. his eyes are so big he has to move his whole head around. he can't turn it all the way around or his head would fall off but he can go almost all the way around. also, they're the bird of silent flight. if i were to fly him one inch over your head you would never hear anything. >> really? completely silent? >> silent flight. one last thing. they call it the wise old owl not because they have a big brain.

eisenhower's second term he had little rock where he sent in federal troops, he demilitarized antarcticacreated anwar, gave the famous farewell address. i can take all these second term presidents. nixon was so rotten his second term and george w. bush's was. there tends to be a curse. bill clinton and ronald reagan did well. i think both of them could gotten elected a third time. >> i look back at the second roosevelt term as a problem because he went very conservative then, cut spending and browse us into a second -- brought us into a second part of the great depression which he didn't have to do. it was done by policy. i think eisenhower had the problem with sherman adams, his chief of staff betrayed him for money. i want to try something by you, a theory, it may be changed by history, first president, first term you pick the best people you can for your cabinet, the best people around, spending your life looking for them and come in and pick your best people. second term you promote everybody from within. bring up all your deputies and don't quite have that team of rivals that tough

the report says that country and antarctica are losing 344 billion metric tons of ice a year equal tohe weight of more than a million empire state buildings. scientists say these findings are important because the melting is causing sea levels to rise, and that makes coastal storms, say superstorm sandy, worse because of the massive flooding that's caused. [ male announcer ] this december, remember -- what starts with adding a friend... ♪ ♪ ...could end with adding a close friend. ♪ the lexus december to remember sales event is on, offering some of our best values of the year. this is the pursuit of perfection. with his wife, danielle, almost every weekend. derrell hasn't been able to visit his mom back east in a long time. [ shirley ] things are sometimes a little tight around the house. i wasn't able to go to the wedding. [ emily jo ] since derrell couldn't get home, we decided to bring home to him and then just gave him a little bit of help finding his way. ♪ [ laughs ] [ applause ] i love you. i love you, too. >>> to politics now where u.n. ambassador susan rice is not just under

a pair of penguins in the antarctica.pite traveling 200,000 miles during their trips to warmer waters. they meet over year. you know what they say, a couple who travels 200,000 miles away from each other tends to stay together. >> you know penguins stay together for life. but they all do -- it's just -- >> lovely. >> anyway, lara? >> absence makes the heart grow fonder, right? >> we've heard that thousands of times. a long way. >> i'll be right back from the moon. >> let's do "pop news," shall we? good morning, everybody. we begin with michael jackson. fans will be so thankful this thanksgiving, a new documentary airing on abc this thursday night celebrating the 25th anniversary of michael jackson's chart-popping "bad" album. this is the very first look, right here right now, some of the scenes and footage that award-winning producer spike lee used to make the sound and also the tour that went along with it. it was pivotal in his career. the best music of jackson's career came from. in the style of a great pop song. you c

you know i spent two months alone out in antarctica under grueling circumstances and when i arrived tot the best coffee but it felt like it. the first cup back on the grid. >> you founded a company, $25 million in reserve nye. how do you make that company work? especially in this economy? >> yeah. i mean how do i continue to be successful? >> yes. >> i think -- first and foremost obviously, i try to always find the best product out there, the second thing, i find the best people. it's the people that make up the organization that keep it rolling even in difficult times. i'm equally as proud of my people as i am of my bean and i think that's the secret. >> what are some of the dangerous and crazy places you've been? >> coffee grows in 80 different countries around the equateorequator, all third-world countries, in the process of advancing themselves. some coming out of conflict and establishing new countries. one of the most difficult places, i think, is going to be haiti. just because of the huge social crisis therened a the mountains, you know, they're not easily accessible. but, you

has a big deal going with russia right now too, start drilling in antarctica. i think they need to put a stop to that, or at least some regulation and more control on it. and that's my comment. host: don, thanks for the call from new york this morning. here's a chart from the "new york times," talking about the money b.p. has set aside and spent to date to cover the fall out from the 2010 spill. b.p. has set aside about $42 billion to cover cover costs related to the accident. spent about $36.3 billion to date, that includes the $4.5 billion of fines and penalties levied by the government as part of thursday's settlement. about $7.8 billion proposed settlement with other claimments, $9 billion paid out to resolve claims by individuals, businesses and government enities, and $14 billion in operational response and clean up cost. we'll go to dean from grantsburg, wisconsin on the democratic line. dean, thanks for the call. caller: hi. host: go ahead. caller: thanks for taking my call. i just want to say if your guy's program wasn't so good we wouldn't be able to

. >>> scientists say the ice covering greenland and antarctica is melting fast er than originally thoughtfive times faster than in the 1990s. all that melted ice has caused global sea levels to rise nearly half an inch in the past decade. >>> cyber bullying is every parents' fear. amanda todd how deadly online bullying can be. cyber detective. >> i've got a problem that needs to be fixed. >> what is it? >> i am being bullied online. >> i'll take the case. >> alex teaches kids how to defend themselves against cyber bullying and safely navigate the internet. director of woiredsafety.org. perry, this is the first time anyone is seeing this game. walk us through it. how does it work? >> the game teaches kids how to spot, avoid and address cyber bullying. they have to qualify as kids cyber detectives who help alex work out of the janitor's closet at the middle school learn how to help other kids being cyber bullied. 14-minute video where there's a bully in the machine and the kids have to join together to help fight it off and then they have to learn about who cyber bullies, how they cyber bul

. >>> scientists report the mile thick ice sheets that cover greenland and antarctica are melting.ost tons of ice in the last 20 years raising the sea level by 7/16 inch. >>> thursday night football action. falcons in atlanta. they got off to a 17-0 lead before the saints scored a single point. atlanta defense had a good night. five interceptions. falcons go on to win it. they are now 11-1 on the year. atlanta could clench the nfc south if they lose to denver on sunday. >> all right. she's bruised, but not broken. coming up, inside lady liberty for a look at the damage left behind by sandy to see what needs to be done to get this american icon back up and running. dermatologist recommendedcer ] aveeno has an oat formula, now proven to build a moisture reserve, so skin can replenish itself. that's healthy skin for life. only from aveeno. make a wish! i wish we could lie here forever. i wish this test drive was over, so we could head back to the dealership. [ male announcer ] it's practically yours. test drive! but we still need your signature. volkswagen sign then drive is back. and

realize that there had been a huge amount of empirical evidence connected or collected, sorry, from antarcticareally touched the actual record preserved in the ice of how the climate was changing. and then when i went to iceland for the first time in 2005 and i saw how much those glaciers had retreated it was really kind of mind boggling. that's what set us off on the path that leads to us here today. >> we're looking at these pictures. we'll explain to people what they're saying. this glacier in iceland. you first saw it in 2006. three years later, which is not all that long when you look at the length of time this planet has been around, a heartbeat, look at what happened. there's the before. there's the after. three years? that's all that took? >> yes. it's actually quite -- it's incredibly mind boggling. over and over again when we open up the backs of our time lapse cameras and we download this pictorial record that we have, it astounds us to recognize how much has disappeared in these very short periods of time. and this is the tangible, three dimensional manifestation of climate change.

scientists drilled into antarctica's lake and shocked to find it teeming with bacteria.low zero and a lot colder. walking to school could help kids learn more in class. look at that. researchers found children who were taken to school in transportation didn't concentrate as well as those who were dropped off at school. experts say it helps them stay awake and feel refreshed if they would just take a bike. we'll continue to study that story. now we'll go upstairs and talk about something really important. >> gretchen: thanks, brian. it has to do with school as well. talk about a hands on approach. one california-based educator is claiming student to student massages can reduce or prevent bullying. is that a good idea? let's ask amber winkler, at the think tank. she's also a former high school teacher. i'm trying to wrap my head around this, amber, because first of all, kids are sort of taught at school to keep their hands off of each other. >> yes. exactly. >> gretchen: so what's up with the theory? >> yeah. so the theory is bunk. i think it's absurd. there is no research

a new study finds ice sheet melting in greenland and an antarctica, more than 300 billion tons of glacialce are lost each year. the earth's sea level has risen eight inches since pre-industrialization times. >> that was a good read. you were overemphasizing a tad bit, but i like it. i'll give you some lessons. >> my posture, do i do this? >> you just want to be centered. you want to be strength, warmth, confidence is what you want to exude. you want to cluster some words so you don't bore people. >> i thought i was talking too fast. >> in my next life, i'm going to be a consultant and teach people how to truly learn how to communicate on television. >> that is great. >> you think that's what i should do? >> yes. >> should i make that career change right now? >> what would the hours be like? >> the hours would be a hell of a lot better. you wouldn't have to put on makeup and wake up early in the morning. with us now, chief white house spo correspondent with "politico," mike allen. >> don't forget, engage your core, very important. >> yes, engage your core, but not here. all right. a rising