00:03If the spate of wild winter storms were any indication, our planet is getting warmer.
00:08And according to a recent study, some of the most catastrophic results of that might happen
00:12sooner rather than later.
00:14Both Greenland and the Antarctic Ice Shelf are two of the largest masses of ice on the
00:18planet.
00:18And now experts are saying, even if humans on this planet are able to prevent the two
00:22degrees Celsius planetary temperature increase we're on track for, which is unlikely, those
00:27two ice sheets are likely still going to go bye-bye, and it's something experts say will
00:31be nothing short of Biblical.
00:33According to climate scientist Jun Young Park, stopping the warming of the planet is only
00:37one aspect of the effects of climate change, explaining in the study, quote,
00:40Computer models that simulate the dynamics of the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica
00:44often do not account for the fact that ice sheets melting will affect ocean processes,
00:48which in turn can feed back onto the ice sheet and the atmosphere.
00:52Those ocean processes include both the way our planet's currents operate via their salinity
00:56and their temperatures, both things that will change as billions of gallons of fresh water
01:00melt into them, but more fresh water will also acidify the oceans, killing off the microorganisms
01:05that help sequester most of the carbon in the air, further exacerbating the problem.
01:09With Park's team concluding that if temperatures rise above 1.8 degrees Celsius, we could see
01:1320 centimeters of sea level rise in the next 130 years, putting most coastal cities at risk.
01:193.4 Thats near the first 8am, the height of modern and historic
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