Uncovering Greenland's secrets
CNN's Frederick Pleitgen traveled to Greenland with a team of climate scientists who are gathering up-to-date data on the island's vast ice sheet to guage how much and how fast it is melting.
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Sepp Kipfstuhl
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| 0 | "On the ice you will see melt layers," he says ... |
| 0.0170984 | "On the ice you will see melt layers," he says pointing to dark and very compressed layering in the ice. "They are extremely prominent melt layers and guys who drilled here 30 years ago say they don't remember melt layers this prominent. The melt layers point to extremely warm summers here in the past years, where the ice surface melted and then froze again during the winter." |
| 0 | "We are doing an experiment with our planet and we have no idea what the outcome will be, what the result will be. All we can do is try to predict it, but there are so many variables in our environment that it is very hard," he said. ... |
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Daniel Steinhage
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| 0 | "It is a two-fold mission," Daniel Steinhage the geophysicist who headed the endeavor told ... |
| 0.0579725 | "It is a two-fold mission," Daniel Steinhage the geophysicist who headed the endeavor told us. "On the one hand we will fly radar survey missions over the ice to penetrate the first hundred to two hundred meters. Then we will land in some of the places along our flight route to drill shallow ice cores for more exact results." |
| -0.0702541 | "The radar penetrates about 150 to 200 meters into the ice," Steinhage said, ... |
| 0.0894999 | "The radar penetrates about 150 to 200 meters into the ice," Steinhage said, while monitoring a variety of screens in the plane's hull. "The useful data goes about 100 to 120 meters deep, after that it is very distorted, but the data from those depths is very useful." |
| 0 | "If we can understand the past and get data from the past, then we can enter that information into our computers and run it forward to try and predict how the climate will change in the future," Steinhage said. ... |
| -0.0191739 | "If we can understand the past and get data from the past, then we can enter that information into our computers and run it forward to try and predict how the climate will change in the future," Steinhage said. "The problem we have is that every time we get new data there are also new questions as well. There are so many factors influencing the world's climate that it is very hard to predict how it will change in the future." |
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Sepp Kippstuhl
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| -0.311551 | "We turn on so many screws that something somewhere has to change, but we don't know what that change is or how severe it is. That is why we are trying to improve our climate modeling," says Kippstuhl. |
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Trevor Popp
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| 0.196785 | "If we can understand the past, then it will help us better predict the future of climate change," says Trevor Popp, ... |
| 0.200196 | "If we can understand the past, then it will help us better predict the future of climate change," says Trevor Popp, a climatologist from the University of Copenhagen. "And Greenland is the best place to experience the processes first hand. Someone once told me this is where the rubber meets the road when it comes to studying climate change." |
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Alfred Wegener
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Frederick Pleitgen
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Erik Bengtsson
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| 0 | "The extremes that we operate in are really not something that can be taught," Polar 6's captain Erik Bengtsson, a Canadian, told ... |
| 0.0341705 | "The extremes that we operate in are really not something that can be taught," Polar 6's captain Erik Bengtsson, a Canadian, told us while navigating the ice plains. "You need to just gain experience flying in these conditions and you always have to keep an eye on the weather because it changes so quickly out here." |
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Country: Greenland
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Region: Arctic
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City: Kangerlussuaq
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Organization: AWI
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Uncovering Greenland's secrets
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For hundreds of years the Arctic has fascinated explorers and scientists who wonder what treasures may lie under the massive ice plains that occupy much of the territory here.
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