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And if it does, we're going to need extremely low-cost sensors so we can deploy networks of hundreds or thousands of these on an
ice
sheet to do imaging.
And that's going to totally change the way we observe
ice
sheets.
And the line of black dots that you see in the background, that's the
ice
camp where the physicists are working.
So this is the Russians working on the
ice
in the peak of the Siberian winter.
Because that phase of solid
ice
lasts for two months and it's full of cracks.
The weather, as you can imagine, this is summer, and you're standing on 200 ft of
ice.
The snow and the
ice
were my sandbox, and the Inuit were my teachers.
We're inundated with news all the time that the sea
ice
is disappearing and it's at its lowest level.
And in fact, scientists were originally saying sea
ice
is going to disappear in the next hundred years, then they said 50 years.
Now they're saying the sea
ice
in the Arctic, the summertime extent is going to be gone in the next four to 10 years.
And I want people to understand and get the concept that, if we lose ice, we stand to lose an entire ecosystem.
There was no
ice
around.
So as long as these bears have any bit of
ice
they will survive, but it's the
ice
that's disappearing.
We're seeing them in the Beaufort Sea, floating in the open ocean where the
ice
has melted out.
We're seeing them on the
ice.
These bears are already showing signs of the stress of disappearing
ice.
Here's a mother and her two year-old cub were traveling on a ship a hundred miles offshore in the middle of nowhere, and they're riding on this big piece of glacier ice, which is great for them; they're safe at this point.
But unfortunately, 95 percent of the glaciers in the Arctic are also receding right now to the point that the
ice
is ending up on land and not injecting any
ice
back into the ecosystem.
These ringed seals also live out their entire life cycle associated and connected to sea
ice.
They give birth inside the ice, and they feed on the Arctic cod that live under the
ice.
And here's a picture of sick
ice.
This is a piece of multi-year
ice
that's 12 years old.
And what scientists didn't predict is that, as this
ice
melts, these big pockets of black water are forming and they're grabbing the sun's energy and accelerating the melting process.
The visibility's 600 ft.; we're on our safety lines; the
ice
is moving all over the place.
But what's important in this picture is that you have a piece of multi-year ice, that big chunk of
ice
up in the corner.
In that one single piece of ice, you have 300 species of microorganisms.
And in the spring, when the sun returns to the ice, it forms the phytoplankton, grows under that ice, and then you get bigger sheets of seaweed, and then you get the zooplankton feeding on all that life.
So really what the
ice
does is it acts like a garden.
Losing that
ice
is like losing the soil in a garden.
This is after an hour under the
ice.
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