VICE - Rignot Excerpt
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- čas přidán 13. 10. 2015
- UC Irvine professor Eric Rignot is featured in this Emmy-winning HBO series VICE where he discusses his findings of Antarctica’s melting ice sheets and the global impact of sea level rise. He told VICE founder and producer Shane Smith that glaciers in West Antarctica’s Amudsen Sea have “passed the point of no return” and their disappearance could trigger the collapse of the entire West Antarctic ice sheet, which could raise global sea levels by up to five meters - or 15 feet. Such an event could severely submerge the world's heavily populated coastal areas, and force us to redraw the world map as we know it.
This video needs more views. Its importance is bigger than we can imagine.
I will pass this video on to the Program Committee of Laguna Woods Village and recommend an invitation to speak at a meeting of our 350 member group in 2017.
This is difficult to accept, but very necessary to see and accept. We need immediate action to respond to this inevitable catastrophe. There is nothing we can do to prevent it, but we should at least be mobilizing to move coastal communities away from danger! People's lives are in imminent danger, but even getting the right people to acknowledge that, let alone do anything about it, seems impossible. There is so much more that should be happening right now to respond to this, but someone like me can't make the money needed to undertake this appear out of thin air, and the people that do have the kind of money necessary would rather spend it on endless wars and lining their own coffers. Do they not realize that all the money in the world won't matter when we have 3+ meters of sea level rise?
It is going to be solved by way of a global thermonuclear war.
Some honesty at last! Going carbon zero now is meaningless, it's too late. The gas is already in the atmosphere and the heating is already locked in. This is going to happen no matter what. Thank you for the honesty!
Why subtitles for just ONE person???
CZcams auto subtitles are shit, whereas the ones you have onscreen are very good.
Both of you should have been subtitled. This is too important not to be accessible to all.