Arctic melting foreshadows America's climate future

I have actually been to Svalbard (back in 2018), and it is my favorite place I’ve ever been. Truly a remarkable place.

Thank you for this very engaging and comprehensive report.

Winters where I live, in New Zealand have also changed, I can remember when I was at age 8, in 1977 we used to have snow, I have not seen snow at all since then...

Thanks for sharing this amazing doc

We needed to seriously prepare for the future decades ago. Now all we can do is make peace with it...

Thank you for sharing this documentary. When will the leaders and industry moguls start listening to this information?

As a resident of the Gulf Coast of Florida with daily access to the shoreline for decades I have watched the ocean rise, take the beaches, invade properties and overtop sea walls built decades ago.

Really good documentary! Thanks for sharing this! 29:35 - We always take our shoes off when we are inside in the Nordic countries. It's not just a Svalbard phenomenon. We do the same thing in mainland Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. All year, not just in the winter. Keeps dirt outside where it belongs. Remember the time when Trump tried to purchase Greenland from Denmark? 😂 Climate deniers should be kept as far away as possible from that zone

David ..great excellent job on your reporting and on this documentary. Miss you being on WFAA ABC in North Dallas.

Thanks for posting

Should do a special on prime time

Thank You, Was Great 💯👍

Great video. Thanks.

Thank you

Thank you! Cars, factories, and from producing oil and gas -- yes, that's right. There are other sources, but they're minor compared to those (except buildings: that's the other really big single sector, along with steel and cement).

32:54 are they using pumped hydro? Or just the flow batteries (I assume those batteries are flow batteries)? Or producing hydrogen? There's got to be a way of storing the massive amounts of energy available in the summer months for us in the winter.

If the Arctic ice cap melts completely during the summer time summers in the northern Hemisphere is going to get more intense with heatwaves.

Uh, the snow height ONLY is not the main prediction. Had 3 years of Soldier time at IT leader in the German Hill Soldier School I also was training avalanche rescue and so learn it depends on the kind of snow levels. So on an older a bit melting and refrozen layer a fresh dry snow is dangerous = as there is no grip together. Then you have the steep of the area ... Our avalanche people had to dig inside the snow layers to see that. Hope you get the change to take part of this 'education' I just have seen beside my main work, but as I ski walked up and waited that report in the morning I was aware of it well - for my own security been single. Beside I always dropped a tour plan onto them in my military post - if something happen.

It's not right what's going down. Not right at all.

Ghg's from thawing permafrost will produce 100-1000Gt of CO2e emissions by 2100. The upper limit is roughly 30 years of our current emissions. And recent studies says that similar lids that pushes methane from one place to another can be found in the oceans leading deep methane to the surface and to the atmosphere. If this happens in a large scale, then these emissions can be even bigger than permafrost thawing. If ocean floor methane is released in deep water, it hardly reaches surface due to soaking in the water column and due to bacterial eating. But in shallow areas, there is not enough volume nor time to act and most of the methane is released from the ocean to the atmosphere. Some of these ocean methane layers can be released in a huge eruption that would ruin entire planers weather and climate. (Some extreme estimates says that one 50Gt release of methane could lead up to 16C warming with other forcings.)