books written by rasmusen and peter freud and about the innuit of northwest greenland i got interested in it seemed to me to make a lot more it was a lot more interesting than what they did a lot of explorers who were just after achieving some sort of geographical saw you're actually started by trying to make the camera work at subzero temperatures here not just the camera working at subzero temperatures but it was also i don't know the actual processing film minus forty and being able to drive it you know tell me you're processing folder no i'm not doing a look at it i was working on was recently but you know looking into that because actually the american military had done a lot of research on this in in antarctica and then a little bit but there's no more folk there these days is there well there is film these days and in fact film is rather better than digital for extreme cold but yes you're right you know we're entering our digital we've entered into a digital world what why would you say that for extreme cold film is better than digital there's a lot of things. that i mean film i

you destroy you first you first went to greenland and back in nineteen seventy one you know and since then you always you traveled to siberia greenland alaska canada the arctic i'm terribly all over how did you get involved with that region how why when i got involved really when i was studying photography in london then i did a project on the on the technical problems of photography at subzero temperatures and that took me to the polar research institute in cambridge. where i sort of happened upon. books written by rasmussen and peter freud and about the innuit of northwest greenland i got interested it's a seem to me to make a lot more it was a lot more interesting than what they did a lot of explorers who had just after achieving some sort of geographical saw you're actually started by trying to make the camera work at subzero temperatures yet not just the camera working at subzero temperatures but it was also the noah but the actual processing film minus forty and being able to drive it you don't so you're processing folder no i'm not doing the project i was working on was basical

unfortunately greenland doesn't have a lot of presence. i brought you rocks. it's amazing these rocks come with minutes. i wanted to talk about my vacation but no. >>ysabel: let's go outside and i think we will have a

the last time that had a gigantic impact so most of that big ice is already gone so as we do have greenland melting let's say and dropping a lot of fresh water in most of the computer models now are suggesting that any slight slowdown or any slight cooling that could result from that is likely to be swapped out by the warming effects of the greenhouse gases so it's interesting in the past it was probably a lot more important than something we'd have to worry about now so if you do want to have an ice age or a giant cooling the next one was due in about fifty thousand years and we probably stop that too so this this we can set aside that that concern and we just have to figure out how we're going to adapt all this dr kurt stagger thanks so much for being with us tonight. thanks for having me i could hurt stagger the author of the book in the future but next hundred thousand years of life on earth you can watch this conversation as well as all our previous conversations with great minds on the web site conversations with great minds dot com. coming up this week marked the one year anniversary

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well apparently i think apparently so much melting has been going on this is we're going to iran in greenland we can begin to see some sort of seismic event so the ice comes off the. look we've got much bigger issues than that to deal with the ocean is thirty percent more acid the atmosphere is about five percent and we still are for a half percent moister than it was forty years ago because more water vapor than cold that's what loads the dice for do you lucian don't work that's why we're seeing these mega floods in place after place maybe most dramatically look what happened last summer in russia we had that we could heat wave and it's so spooked the credit that they cut off all grain export to the rest of the world they're the world's third biggest grain exporter the price of wheat and corn went up about seventy percent within a couple of weeks there are a lot of people around the world tonight eating less than they would like to because they simply can't afford it due to climate change we're in a fix and we've got to start taking it seriously in washington because until we do have a chanc

unfortunately greenland doesn't have a lot of presence. i brought you rocks.t's amazing these rocks come with minutes. i wanted to talk about my vacation but no. >>ysabel: let's go outside and i think we will have a beautiful picture. if this is san francisco and yes we have sunshine. it should be a pretty decent day. >>marty: let's check in on the forecast of brian. >>jacqueline: good sunday morning was sunshine all around the bay area for today of the temperatures not as warm as we've seen last week. it's still going to be cooler today in the sixties to low '70's. a beautiful day, we will be into the low '70's in the more mr. inland spots, clear and cool tonight around 8:00 p.m.. here's future cast, temperatures at 10:00 a.m. readings in the '50s there is the light blue that shows those numbers in the '50s but they do begin to warm up through the afternoon. 5:00 p.m. when we typically hit a high temperatures of the day, 60s in most places of notice and yellow popping up here showing highs into the low '70's. low to mid 60's by the bay, 66 oakland, '70s san j

have been in the northern atmosphere, but you can see that chernobyl went around asia and reached greenland north america, and canada. also, there were fallout in africa, so when people -- when fukushima happened, i said it's just a matter of time before we're going to have contamination worldwide. next please. i'm -- these are just a few of the slides from the book. this shows the number of thyroid cancer cases among persons from newborn to 18 years of age at the time of the meltdown, and you can see there were few in 1986 and it continues to go up and up and up. one of the greatest concerns about fukushima is the free amount of iodine 131 given off and iodine 129 which has an extremely long half-life. we're concerned about the unborn and obviously the pregnant women because iodine 131 goes to the thyroid gland of the unborn, and you are then dealing with lifelong problems, loss of mentality and low iq, and this is of great significance, and i don't know what is being done worldwide as far as taking -- giving medical advice to pregnant women at this time. next one, please. this is an estim