00:00 Antarctica is disappearing and while the EU is still pushing to limit global warming and become climate neutral by 2050,
00:08 at this rate sea ice will continue to melt slowly but surely for generations to come.
00:15 That was a conclusion that the Potsdam Institute for Research made in its recently published "Impact of Climate Change" report.
00:22 With record temperatures across much of the world this year, 2.7 million km2 of sea ice has been lost and that's much more than experts expected.
00:33 So that's about the same as 10 times the area of the United Kingdom.
00:38 So this is a massive negative sea ice anomaly that we haven't really seen on this scale before within the period that we've monitored over the past 45 years.
00:48 This dramatic loss of sea ice is causing catastrophic failures in the reproduction of local wildlife.
00:55 The report says there are no visible signs of irreversible retreat yet, but we could reach the point of no return sooner rather than later.
01:05 Now unless we want to see a lot more of these things happening in the future we've really got to get on with decarbonising.
01:10 That won't solve the problem. There will be adaptation that's absolutely needed.
01:14 The complete collapse of the Antarctic could take hundreds or thousands of years, but would mean several metres of global sea rise for 10,000 years.
01:23 A more intense warming in the future would further accelerate this process.
01:27 [SWOOSH]
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