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It's the
ice
storm of 1998.
We lost our entire electrical grid because of an
ice
storm when the temperatures were, in the dead of winter in Quebec, minus 20 to minus 30.
You place the cross into the ice, in the shadow of Ausangate, the most sacred of all Apus, or sacred mountains of the Inca.
A people for whom blood on
ice
is not a sign of death, but an affirmation of life.
And yet tragically, when you now go to those northern communities, you find to your astonishment that whereas the sea
ice
used to come in in September and stay till July, in a place like Kanak in northern Greenland, it literally comes in now in November and stays until March.
Picture warm, gooey cookies, crunchy candies, velvety cakes, waffle cones piled high with
ice
cream.
You've probably seen
ice
skaters do the same thing, spinning faster and faster by drawing in their arms and legs.
Then it's back out into the storm where there'll be slips and falls on the
ice.
I used to spend all of my allowance money on the
ice
cream truck and stuff, and she would take her money and give it to me at school and make sure I had something to eat and she would go without, and that's the kind of person she actually is since I've always known her.
And while your eyes are seeing nothing for kilometers but ice, your ears are telling you that out there are bowhead and beluga whales, walrus and bearded seals.
The ice, too, makes sounds.
And under 100 percent sea
ice
in the dead of winter, bowhead whales are singing.
In the Arctic, this is especially important, because not only do Arctic marine mammals have to hear each other, but they also have to listen for cues in the environment that might indicate heavy
ice
ahead or open water.
So they might listen for thin
ice
or no ice, or listen for echoes off nearby
ice.
(Marine mammal sounds) But when the
ice
is frozen solid, and there are no big temperature shifts or current changes, the underwater Arctic has some of the lowest ambient noise levels of the world's oceans.
This is primarily due to a decrease in seasonal sea ice, which is a direct result of human greenhouse gas emissions.
Over the past 30 years, areas of the Arctic have seen decreases in seasonal sea
ice
from anywhere from six weeks to four months.
This decrease in sea
ice
is sometimes referred to as an increase in the open water season.
And not only is the extent of
ice
changing, but the age and the width of
ice
is, too.
Now, you may well have heard that a decrease in seasonal sea
ice
is causing a loss of habitat for animals that rely on sea ice, such as
ice
seals, or walrus, or polar bears.
Decreasing sea
ice
is also causing increased erosion along coastal villages, and changing prey availability for marine birds and mammals.
Climate change and decreases in sea
ice
are also altering the underwater soundscape of the Arctic.
In the Arctic, when it's ice-covered, most of the noise from wind doesn't make it into the water column, because the
ice
acts as a buffer between the atmosphere and the water.
But with decreases in seasonal sea ice, not only is the Arctic now open to this wave noise, but the number of storms and the intensity of storms in the Arctic has been increasing.
With less seasonal sea ice, subarctic species are moving north, and taking advantage of the new habitat that is created by more open water.
Now, Arctic whales, like this bowhead, they have no dorsal fin, because they have evolved to live and swim in ice-covered waters, and having something sticking off of your back is not very conducive to migrating through ice, and may, in fact, be excluding animals from the
ice.
Decreases in sea
ice
have allowed humans to occupy the Arctic more often.
But this is primarily from other animals or from sea ice, and these are the sounds with which they've evolved, and these are sounds that are vital to their very survival.
I presented this to the jet propulsion lab at NASA, and they said that they had no ability to go down craters to look for ice, and life, ultimately, on Mars.
Clouds are formed when microscopic water droplets or
ice
crystals coalesce around tiny particles.
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