A World Without Ice: is our environmental future inevitable or avoidable?
World Without Ice
Depressing reports from the polar ice caps have now become standard monthly affairs: ice shelves and glaciers are melting at increasingly rapid rates, and summers are now virtually ice-free in the Arctic Sea. While stories are ubiquitous they still seem far away—which is a dangerous outlook, argues geophysicist Henry Pollack. Pollack is at the Copenhagen COP15 reminding the attendants that the disappearance of ice portends serious consequences for the global environmental balance, from the regulation of temperature to the extinction of animal species. Patt talks with Al Gore’s partner in crime from Copenhagen on what a world without ice might look like.
Guests:
Henry Pollack, professor of geophysics at the University of Michigan; winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (shared the prize with Al Gore); author, “A World Without Ice”
- Patt Morrison for December 16, 2009
- A World Without Ice: is our environmental future inevitable or avoidable?
- The latest private-public partnership for L.A.: skate parks
- Ben Bernanke - TIME's Person of the Year 2009
- Why not tackle another huge issue? Immigration reform starts again in Congress
- Amy Alkon Sees Rude People
Also on this episode
Events
Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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