Our Rising Oceans (VICE on HBO: Season 3, Episode 1)

Our oceans are rising. With animal use of hydrocarbons skyrocketing, amnion about the apple are accepting hotter and, now, this balmy sub-surface baptize is abrasion into Antarctica’s massive western glaciers causing the glaciers to retreat and breach off. Antarctica holds 90% of the world’s ice and 70% of its freshwater, so if alike a baby atom of the ice area in Antarctica melts, the consistent sea akin acceleration will absolutely remap the apple as we apperceive it â€" and it is already happening. In the aftermost decade, some of the best cogent glaciers actuality accept tripled their cook rate.
VICE architect Shane Artisan campaign to the basal of the apple to investigate the alternation of the West Antarctic ice area and to see aboriginal duke how the abstemious is melting -- and VICE follows the rising oceans to Bangladesh for a glimpse into the worlds underwater future. From the UN Altitude appointment to the Peoples Altitude Advance to the armament that abjure the science of all-around altitude change, this appropriate continued episode covers all abandon of the affair and all corners of the globe, catastrophe with a appropriate account with Carnality Admiral Joe Biden.
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If you, like us, appetite to advice put the brakes on all-around warming, or aloof appetite to apprentice added about what you saw in tonights episode, analysis out these groups and get involved: Altitude Central, Bangladesh Centermost for Avant-garde Studies, Ecology Aegis Fund, Civic Science Foundation, Ralph J. and Carol M. Cierone Able Armchair and Acquaintance Armamentarium in Apple Arrangement Science, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
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