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The scientists must insure that the
ice
is not contaminated.
Moreover, in this 8,000-mile journey, they have to insure this
ice
doesn't melt.
They have to, in fact, make sure this
ice
never gets warmer than about 20 degrees below zero, otherwise, the key gases inside it will dissipate.
As they handle the ice, in fact, they keep an extra pair of gloves warming in an oven, so that, when their work gloves freeze and their fingers stiffen, they can don a fresh pair.
So far, they've packed up about 4,500 feet of
ice
cores for shipment back to the United States.
This past season, they manhandled them across the
ice
to waiting aircraft.
The 109th Air National Guard flew the most recent shipment of
ice
back to the coast of Antarctica, where it was boarded onto a freighter, shipped across the tropics to California, unloaded, put on a truck, driven across the desert to the National
Ice
Core Laboratory in Denver, Colorado, where, as we speak, scientists are now slicing this material up for samples, for analysis, to be distributed to the laboratories around the country and in Europe.
Here, the
ice
seems a living presence.
This is a photograph from when I visited Prudhoe Bay in Alaska in 2002 to watch the Minerals Management Service testing their ability to burn oil spills in
ice.
And what you see here is, you see a little bit of crude oil, you see some
ice
cubes, and you see two sandwich baggies of napalm.
The system suddenly, very surprisingly, loses 30 to 40 percent of its summer
ice
cover.
And as we watch the
ice
caps melt, it is unsustainable for our planet.
And we made the very first bore hole through the largest floating
ice
shelf on the planet.
So, this huge floating
ice
shelf the size of Alaska comes from West Antarctica.
Now, West Antarctica is the part of the continent where the
ice
is grounded on sea floor as much as 2,000 meters deep.
So that
ice
sheet is partly floating, and it's exposed to the ocean, to the ocean heat.
Because it's partly floating, you can imagine, is sea level rises a little bit, the
ice
lifts off the bed, and then it can break off and float north.
When that
ice
melts, sea level rises by six meters.
So we drill back in time to see how often that's happened, and exactly how fast that
ice
can melt.
We drilled through a hundred meters of floating
ice
shelf then through 900 meters of water and then 1,300 meters into the sea floor.
It can only get there if it's carried out by
ice.
So we know there's an
ice
shelf overhead.
And these plants need sunlight, so we know when we find that sediment there's no
ice
overhead.
So what that means is, what it tells us is that the Ross Sea region, this
ice
shelf, melted back and formed anew about 35 times.
In fact, the lore for many years has been, "The
ice
formed many tens of millions of years ago, and it's been there ever since."
We do similar things with
ice
cores.
We used to do it just with
ice
cores, but in this case, we're going back 20 million years.
Ben and Jerry's doesn't have "liver and onion
" ice
cream, and it's not because they whipped some up, tried it and went, "Yuck!"
Those are seals from many countries being released who are sampling underneath the
ice
sheets and giving us temperature data of oceanographic quality on both poles.
We all know the devastating effects of this excessive exploitation: global warming, rising of the sea levels, melting of the glaciers and polar ice, increasingly extreme climate patterns and more.
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