climate change is reshaping our world
and there’s arguably nowhere more
affected than the Arctic hi I’m Rebecca
Braden and welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re speaking with journalists
and author of the big thaw it’s true zyk
about this problem could you just give
us a brief background of what climate
change it actually is what it really is
that the change is the variability that
you see over a long period of time where
things either get gradually colder or
warmer and right now we’re into a
warming phase where you can still have a
cold winter but saying a 20 year period
you’ll have 15 warm years as opposed to
five cold ones what is the tipping point
well the tipping point is one of those
terms that’s used to describe when
winter can no longer keep up with the
summer melt so essentially summer
becomes the dominant force and when
summer becomes the dominant force more
ice melts than can be created in the
winter time you get past that tipping
point and what happens is you get so
much open water in the Arctic and it’s
black and attracts heat that in the end
Old Man Winter just fades away it’s
never going to disappear but it’s just
going to be a much weaker course why is
Arctic ice important whole variety of
arctic animals are really tied to the
sea ice you know that they’ve adapted to
this cold temperature for the longest
period of time and so if you don’t
really care about them and I think most
people do the other way of looking at it
is that the ice that big big massive
chunk of ice is like an air conditioner
it basically moderates our climate you
know what it’s like the air conditioner
breaks down you can be awfully
uncomfortable not only that it can have
an impact on agriculture and other kinds
of economies so what other effects does
the melting polar ice have on the world
there’s a lot of water locked up nice
and once that ice melts sea levels rise
and there’s 104 million people living
around the world that lived within a
meter of the coast within fifty two
hundred years a lot of those communities
will have to move 104 million people’s
masa
movement of people now I’ve heard you
say that climate change is not the end
of the world but obviously that’s what
we keep hearing human kind of solved
number of major problems in the past
acid rain was a huge problem in the
1980s the hole in the ozone was a
problem in the 1990s back there in the
80s and the 90s everybody said you can’t
do anything about it you know it’s too
big if we invest in science we change
the way we do things the way we live the
way we burn fossil fuels the way we
generate energy I think that we can
solve this problem you know it’s not
going to happen overnight it’s maybe not
going to happen in 10 years or maybe
even 50 years but I think that we we can
change things that’s within our control
we’re not stupid people thanks very much
for telling us about climate change
thanks for inviting me
and there’s arguably nowhere more
affected than the Arctic hi I’m Rebecca
Braden and welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re speaking with journalists
and author of the big thaw it’s true zyk
about this problem could you just give
us a brief background of what climate
change it actually is what it really is
that the change is the variability that
you see over a long period of time where
things either get gradually colder or
warmer and right now we’re into a
warming phase where you can still have a
cold winter but saying a 20 year period
you’ll have 15 warm years as opposed to
five cold ones what is the tipping point
well the tipping point is one of those
terms that’s used to describe when
winter can no longer keep up with the
summer melt so essentially summer
becomes the dominant force and when
summer becomes the dominant force more
ice melts than can be created in the
winter time you get past that tipping
point and what happens is you get so
much open water in the Arctic and it’s
black and attracts heat that in the end
Old Man Winter just fades away it’s
never going to disappear but it’s just
going to be a much weaker course why is
Arctic ice important whole variety of
arctic animals are really tied to the
sea ice you know that they’ve adapted to
this cold temperature for the longest
period of time and so if you don’t
really care about them and I think most
people do the other way of looking at it
is that the ice that big big massive
chunk of ice is like an air conditioner
it basically moderates our climate you
know what it’s like the air conditioner
breaks down you can be awfully
uncomfortable not only that it can have
an impact on agriculture and other kinds
of economies so what other effects does
the melting polar ice have on the world
there’s a lot of water locked up nice
and once that ice melts sea levels rise
and there’s 104 million people living
around the world that lived within a
meter of the coast within fifty two
hundred years a lot of those communities
will have to move 104 million people’s
masa
movement of people now I’ve heard you
say that climate change is not the end
of the world but obviously that’s what
we keep hearing human kind of solved
number of major problems in the past
acid rain was a huge problem in the
1980s the hole in the ozone was a
problem in the 1990s back there in the
80s and the 90s everybody said you can’t
do anything about it you know it’s too
big if we invest in science we change
the way we do things the way we live the
way we burn fossil fuels the way we
generate energy I think that we can
solve this problem you know it’s not
going to happen overnight it’s maybe not
going to happen in 10 years or maybe
even 50 years but I think that we we can
change things that’s within our control
we’re not stupid people thanks very much
for telling us about climate change
thanks for inviting me
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