Why You Should Be Worried About This Glacier

Known as the ‘Hollywood Glacier,’ Europe’s largest ice cap has been the picturesque and otherworldly scene of movies and TV shows for decades. But the real drama lies underneath; Vatnajökull glacier sits across some of the most active volcanoes in Iceland.
Embedded with a team of drone pilots and scientists, VICE World News investigates if the country’s melting glaciers could lead to catastrophic volcanic eruptions which could impact our entire planet.
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[@maytons]

"It's the equivalent of 500 million African elephants"... now that's a strange way to measure glacial water loss.

[@marioevans9867]

thats because it scares you

[@mutum1]

just a way to help visualize the amount

[@javierharth3647]

Elephants are mostly water; at least two thirds water. Just like us! Five hundred million tons of water!!

[@Kiyoone]

Wish they used Asian ones as reference. The ones without tusks

[@frenchonion4595]

Should of said Americans

[@dylwhs]

Many people think that just because the ground is hard, it is impervious to deformation. A cubic meter of water weighs one metric tonne. It isn't very big by itself, but given the massive amount of water locked in glaciers, their melting relieves the land of all that weight. This allows the pressures of volcanism underground to exert upward force on the land that is no longer weighed down by glaciers. But more interestingly, the water runs off into the sea, and the weight of water is now added to the world's oceans. That change in weight will similarly deform the sea bed rocks and the recent worldwide increase in volcanic events being reported may be a result of this. In essence the outer crust of the earth is experiencing different amount of weight distribution across its surface, be that where the seas are or where the glaciers once were. It might be that man made greenhouse gases is the catalyst that triggers a natural disaster of volcanism and pollution that leads to run away global warming and all the problems that might lead to, for our survival. With current heat waves and low precipitation in areas that were bread baskets, and heavy rainfall in other food producing areas ruining crops, we are on a precarious knife edge of existence.

[@benputnam623]

All of this comment right here 👏

[@reforest4fertility]

Ending petrol promptly & commencing reforestation massively is central to the answer. Many other actions & changes are needed too, OFC.

[@endurableplanet4793]

Feels like we've been on the edge for a while now

[@mrpatrickstar1343]

@@Novastar.SaberCombat You lack brain function

[@vyym2149]

@@Novastar.SaberCombat the universe wouldnt gain or lose anything in such an event we are unfathomably minuscule compared to the rest of universe, and im sure 85% of the people on this planet would argue against ur take. I didnt choose to be here but since I am id like to live until i reach old age.

[@AndthenonedayIbecameanEXO-L]

I've been listening to the "Act now" for at least a decade and the steps that we take are still just on minuscule level and always on the side of a consumer and rarely the companies that are the biggest polluters.

[@jaykim8851]

Hydrogeologist here, this video brings back memories of my glacial geology class. One of the most interesting classes I took in grad school. Lots of good examples of glacial deposits left behind by subglacial meltwater tunnels in SW Michigan from the last major glaciation around 10,000-15,000 years ago.

[@GregBiggsDETHKIDS666]

Could you explain that a little bit please?

[@PiarasMcGroggan8070]

@B T it is a big deal cause it raises the question of how old really is human civilization

[@PiarasMcGroggan8070]

@@GregBiggsDETHKIDS666 It was the end of the younger dryas aka the ice age

[@2ruthfox82]

I wish the experts would focus more on explaining the effects of large amounts of fresh water mixing with the salt water from the ocean and how it affects the currents and ocean streams. Rather than just the sea level rising. The first is rather more destructive than most would realize.

[@GD1_3]

When the Atlantic current slows and stops mixing warm and cold water only then will they start talking

[@MrLoobu]

They don't really know how

[@GD1_3]

@@spaceman1790 not just cold all weather patterns would change, most of all storms would be more intense and unpredictable. Plus the oceans ecosystems would most likely collapse

[@briankocheraabcdt4628]

Not to mention that all the salt water life forms including fish we eat and play a part in the entire sea food chain will not be able to adapt to the rate of reduction in salinity. How do we know these things? Our public school teachers taught us about evolution, biology, basic math and earth science. They gave us English classes to express ourselves, critical thinking to figure things out. Teachers taught us about our government in civics classes. We do not need to depend on "experts". We have all of the tools. We can be our own advocates. We can make our voices heard in Washington. We the people, can. elect leaders who are competent and will act upon our needs. This ultimately isn't about our Extinction. This is a matter of total world extinction

[@thesilentone4024]

It slows the mix making the water move slower so it heat up more nutrients dont mix right in the right places and all in all can change the direction of all the ocean flows backwards or completely different then ever seen before.

[@GreatBigBore]

Not a complaint, but a suggestion: it would be great if your reporters would provide more context than "millions of elephants" or "the size of Denver". At the very least, some percentages would be good. But also, some context like how the last year's worth of change compares to the last decade's worth of change, or the last several decades or even a century's worth of change. Context is super-important for all reporting. Thanks for the hard work you've all put into this and your other videos.

[@SecretEyeSpot]

it may be infeasible for a small company like Vice to hire the scientists (archaeologists, geologists, and marine biologists etc) necessary to form definitive research to actually describe this as you're requesting, but also that there may be an active effort of companies to suppress this knowledge.

[@karlharvymarx2650]

Don't know how you do it where you are, but here in 'murrica we measure gas mileage in linear square roots of Denver area per elephant volume like civilized people. Who hasn't spent days wandering around Denver and bathing elephants in swimming pools to observe the amount of water displaced? I wish they would use more real units too. I can kind of understand comparing to sizes to something kind of familiar to give more of a feeling for size, but often I want to do some back of napkin math which is awkward when Denvers are changing size and you don't even know the species, age and sex of the elephant. Chances are people who watch this will understand metric if given and get an enhanced "feel" if blue whale weights are used too.

[@JGirDesu]

You don’t know how big the scale of 500 million elephants is? Smh 😂😂😂

[@balticwater]

I think there's some joke about "Americans will use anything to measure, except metric"

[@farqueue2844]

It doesn't sound as intimidating if you put real facts in the doco. If you couldn't tell by the ambience of the vid, they want you to be scared 500 million elephants or whatever are all jumping in the ocean together 😂. Oh and none of this is natural, all humans fault, and you will die in 7 days.

[@lisamitchell1355]

I’m 57 and at a young teenager my family and close friends could see the season’s changing year after year, our creek would run year round, during monsoon it would rain every day, and every winter we got snow, now days we’re lucky if we get what we once had

[@ykMMD]

Where I live in Canada we still get snow (a LOT on some days), but in the past 10 years we've begun to have so much rain in winter. Its awful. Especially when the weather reaches -30° the next day ad all of the pavements are covered in ice ugh.

[@jdsguam]

So what changed? No more monsoon season? No more winter?

[@lisamitchell1355]

@@jdsguam no monsoon, and mild winters and hotter summers

[@jdsguam]

@@lisamitchell1355 Crazy. I live on the Tropical Island of Guam and nothing has changed at all.

[@chriskruger5151]

It is horrific what is happening to our planet.

[@williamj2460]

Not really

[@GoBirdzz17]

The arrogance of man to think he caused it or can change the Earth's climate patterns is comical

[@Goku_Kiyosaki]

@@GoBirdzz17 this is why I believe humans are stupid af, aliens just need to blow this planet up fr

[@Lilmickcrocodiledundee0001]

@@GoBirdzz17 💯

[@martinschienbein9507]

just the beginning

[@-xirx-]

This is award winning journalism. And the fact they caught on film the biggest glacier calving I've ever seen.

[@iwishiwaswrongbutimnot517]

Yeah. They said it was like nothing they’ve ever seen. That actually wasn’t very big.

[@alfadub1962]

@@iwishiwaswrongbutimnot517 yeah the hell ? These people were screaming bloody murder it was too annoying

[@Biedropegaz]

It is not. Volcanic eruptions tend to cool climate than make it hotter. Search: year without summer, so the aurhor of the movie are manipulating facts or are stupid

[@drottnari]

@@alfadub1962 the drama is just silly. Already on the glacier outlet they were on in the beginning. This is Falljökull where tourists go on glacier walks, it is easily accessible and easy to be on it because loads of people know Falljökull so well

[@-xirx-]

@@drottnari find a video of a bigger calving taken from a boat. I'll wait

[@OmnificAmore]

At this point, we should just brace for impact and adapt to the damage that has been done to Earth. I have a feeling we surpassed the "point of no return" many years ago.

[@koilamaoh4238]

We're prety screwed anyway. many will die regardless. WIth looming wars, millions of virus's lurking around the corner.. possible meteors that might wipe us out, climate change.

[@dancarter482]

TRADE WINDS !

[@nick9602]

The earth has been through so many heating a cooling stages I don’t see how people think we can stop them.

[@nick9602]

Not saying we haven’t caused at least some of it but this is a natural occurrence. Stop focusing on stopping it and figure out solutions to adapt

[@dinozone7373]

There is some good news: the idea that the world will continue warming even if we cut off carbon emissions has been accepted as untrue. The warming will stop IMMEDIATELY after we stop pumping carbon into the atmosphere. All the more reason why not to submit into doomist pessimism and continuously lobby for carbon-neutral energy like wind, solar, nuclear, hydro and geothermal, as well as robust public transportation systems.

[@sharr630]

I just visited this glacier back in January. It's already shrank so much since the 1980s. I also visited a volcano when I was in Iceland and there was an active threat or eruption when I was there. Helicopters kept circling the area and we were in the middle of basically nowhere. Crazy to see how these things are connected.

[@drunvert]

So the fact that it's already shrunk tons in the last 30 years and didn't cause any problems. Kind of proves that as it keeps shrinking no problems will arise

[@Hyperbolic_G]

@@drunvert most systems are built with redundancies that allow for a lot of degradation before catastrophic failure. Natural systems like these are no different. There will be a point where the pressure differentials finally crack

[@sharr630]

@@drunvert This kids is why you need to stay in school. You don't want to be the ignoramus who doesn't understand basic science or logic.

[@drunvert]

@@sharr630 I completely agree. 👍

[@drunvert]

@@Hyperbolic_G No. There will be a time when things are different from the way they are today. And that has happened throughout human history and in fact throughout the Earth's history. One thing human beings are really good at is adaptation. We're not really good at controlling the global climate

[@nerd26373]

Climate change is definitely a real thing. It's concerning to see natural formations collapsing. It almost looks like we're on the brink of toppling over the edge if we couldn't exactly think of a solution to prevent something similar from ever happening again and again.

[@fizixguru101]

Never doubted the truth about Global warming...Just believe it is too late to even slow the process down, let alone halt it!

[@drunvert]

Climate change is real. Man-made climate change is complete. Crap

[@leansnscenes7806]

Americans are the only ones even questioning if climate change is real or not, the rest of the world knows it is. Also most scientists agree that we have already crossed the point of no return. No solution can fix this now, we can only slow it down a little bit and even that is probably impossible with growing consumerism and wastefulness.

[@drunvert]

@@leansnscenes7806 the climate has always changed. The Earth's most productive time in terms of plant animal diversity was when the earth was much warmer than it is today. When the Earth was much cooler than it is today, people struggled but adapted. Cooler or warmer we will struggle and we will adapt. But we will not change the climate.

[@drunvert]

@@leansnscenes7806 lololol, point of no return. I hope you live another 50 years so that you can see how naive you were when you were young.

[@vice.nor.virtue]

This felt like the beginning of a science fiction movie. It's happened more than one time that a group of scientists visiting a frozen landscape discover something they didn't intend to....Sadly, on this occasion they studied exactly what they had planned, and the movie ahead of looks less like The Tomorrow War and a lotmore like The Day After Tomorrow.

[@thaabitfarah8438]

SOUL'S JOURNEY AFTER DEATH Al-Bara’ ibn ‘Azib reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Verily, when the believer is ready to depart the world and is facing the Hereafter, angels from heaven descend with bright faces, as if their faces were the sun, with them are the shrouds and perfumes of Paradise, until they sit from him a distance as far as the eye can see. Then, the angel of death, upon him be peace, comes until he sits by his head and he says: O pure soul, come out to the forgiveness of Allah and His pleasure! He takes it out like a drop from a water-skin and holds it, never to leave his hand for the blink of an eye until he places it in that shroud and perfume. The scent coming from it is more pleasant than any musk you would find on the face of the earth. He ascends and passes by no gathering of angels but that they say: What a pure spirit! They say he is this person, son of this person, calling him by the best names by which he was known in the world, until he stops at the lowest heaven and seeks entry and it will be opened for him. The company of each heaven bring him closer to the heaven following it until he stops at the seventh heaven. Allah Almighty will say: Write the record of My servant in the righteous register and return him to the earth, for from it I created them, to it I return them, and from it I will take them out once again. His spirit will be returned to his body and two angels will come to sit by him, saying to him: Who is your Lord? He will say: My Lord is Allah. They will say: What is your religion? He will say: My religion is Islam. They will say: Who is this man sent you? He will say: He is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. They will say: How did you know? He will say: I read the Book of Allah, had faith in it, and believed in it. A heavenly announcement will be made: My servant has spoken the truth! Spread out carpets for him in Paradise, clothe him for Paradise, and open a gate for him to Paradise! Its comforts and fragrances will come to him and his grave will become spacious as far as his eye can see. A handsome man, with fine clothes and wonderful fragrance, will come and say: Glad tidings of what pleases you, for this was your Day you were promised! He will say: Who are you with such a handsome face? He will say: I am your righteous deeds! He will say: O Lord, begin the Hour that I may return to my family and property!” The Prophet continued, “Verily, when the unbeliever is ready to depart the world and is facing the Hereafter, angels descend from heaven with darkened faces and with them sack-cloth. They will sit away from his as far as the eye can see. Then, the angel of death approaches until he sits by his head and he says: O filthy soul, come out to the displeasure of Allah and His wrath! He will be separated from his body like the tearing of skewers from wet wool and he holds it in his hand, never to leave it for the blink of an eye, until he places it in this sack-cloth. The scent coming from it is like the most foul corpse found upon the face of the earth. They will ascend with him and not pass by a gathering of angels but that they say: What a filthy spirit! They say he is this person, son of this person, calling him by the ugliest names by which he was known in the world, until he stops at the lowest heaven. They will request it to be opened for him but it will not open.” Then, the Prophet recited the verse, “The gates of heaven will never open for them, nor will they enter Paradise, until the camel goes through the eye of the needle,” (7:40). The Prophet said, “Allah Almighty will say: Write his record in the wicked register in the lowest earth. His spirit will be thrown down,” then the Prophet recited the verse, “It is as though he had fallen from the sky and was snatched by the birds or the wind carried him down into a remote place,” (22:31). The Prophet said, “His spirit will return to his body and two angels will come to sit by him, saying to him: Who is your Lord? He will say: Uh, uh, I do not know! They will say: What is your religion? He will say: Uh, uh, I do not know! They will say: Who is this man sent to you? He will say: Uh, uh, I do not know! A heavenly announcement will be made: He has lied! Spread carpets for him in Hellfire and open a gate for him to Hellfire! Its heat and its flames will approach him, and he will be squeezed in his grave until his ribs press together. An ugly man, with hideous clothing and a foul stench, will approach him and say: Glad tidings of what despairs you, for this is your Day you were promised! He will say: Who are with your evil face? He will say: I am your wicked deeds! He will say: O Lord, do not begin the Hour!” Source: Musnad Aḥmad 18534

[@niavellir7408]

Yeah imagine Iceland melts and than southern US turns into a winter wonderland lol

[@vice.nor.virtue]

@@thaabitfarah8438 compelling but wildly incorrect. Yawn 🥱.

[@vice.nor.virtue]

@@niavellir7408 we would have to rename Iceland “Texas”, and Texas “Iceland”!

[@thaabitfarah8438]

@@vice.nor.virtue Prophet Muhammad mentioned by name in the Bible kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmTcaHp6nbWXbtk

[@adamjb21]

Fire and ice. I find it amazing how volcanoes and glaciers can coexist literally on top of each other. Humans should take note

[@JohnJ469]

It's not new. The Antarctic peninsula, the place where people scream about temperature rise? It's got a whole heap of volcanoes under the ice.

[@cob571]

time to put the bong down

[@billiamc1969]

Take note of what??? Are you high

[@BUILT2KEEL]

Its because these volcanoes caused mass extinction in the past and it blocked the sun for years so everything froze. And we are melting all the ice due to greed so it can do the same to us. We need kamakazis in all big buisinesses if we want to survive. Or you can sit back and die a horrible death with your kids because we didnt take on the govornments and big companies

[@thisgirlisfancy]

@@billiamc1969 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@Brendan-Black]

Great content as usual, VICE. Thank you.

[@Owlshadow.]

Thank you all for the work

[@chrismullin8304]

16:02 He is not alone. In fact, it almost feels as if we are all experiencing it at the same time.

[@Kenchan1337]

20 years ago we stopped having yearly natural ice in the winter to skate on in the netherlands, i've felt what he describes back then. he's just further north so it's hitting them later. it used to be so that the ice in the winter was such a normal phenomenon that people would open shops for soup / snacks for the ice-skaters, that's all gone now. i miss it.

[@israelmoreno3620]

yet hes on that petro operated boat .......... hippacrate ! this is why dont trust White's People's this earth has been old has been hot when man was not around and while man is around !my butt been wiped !

[@israelmoreno3620]

@@Kenchan1337 you aint black !

[@dougg1075]

@@israelmoreno3620 hahaha!

[@Kenchan1337]

@@israelmoreno3620 wtf?

[@callumogunremi7343]

i knew that this was going to be a difficult watch, because the situation is even worse than i thought. And gives me an uneasy feeling that in our life time we are going to see mother nature change dramatically and not for the good. great documentary more like this!

[@suedenim6590]

Look up what'll happen when yellowstone goes, which it will probably this year because they've sold water rights to coca cola to put poison in water to sell back to us 💥 👋

[@callumogunremi7343]

@@suedenim6590 sounds legit 👌

[@dustinfebes1411]

Depends how you look at it. Might not be good for humans, but could be good for “Mother Nature”. After all we are an invasive species.

[@suedenim6590]

@@callumogunremi7343 yup, unfortunately. Removing water from the water table industrially to put poisons in to kill us and make us fat. It's going to be a horrible time and a horrible death *when* it goes, nice knowing you anyway friend x

[@suedenim6590]

@@dustinfebes1411 we're more like a cancer

[@tragically.rachel]

This is such an important video in that it captures real life and shows us the effects we otherwise would never see with our eyes. And it's so important for history.... But this is incredible video

[@seagullseagullseagul]

THE COOLEST THING ABOUT THIS IS BEING ABLE TO SEE THINGS THAT WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SEE WITHOUT DRONES

[@Flyability]

It was so great working with you all on this mission! Excellent job on the final cut of the doc.

[@brettheyer2421]

When will you see if Walt Disney is frozen under Disney?

[@freeffree4133]

who are you?

[@willtheclimatealarmistsall7728]

@@freeffree4133 A commercial drone flying company I think, by looking at their channel.. They fly drones for things like hard to undertake inspections in high or hard to reach places, much like in this video

[@B1g_Salad]

I use your drones for boiler inspections. This looks like a lot more fun 😃

[@JoseFernandez-wu8pj]

The governments of the world better start investing in renewable energies and infrastructure projects NOW OR HUMANITY IS FUCKED.

[@KaWiReloaded]

I’m just here in Florida waiting for the right glacier to melt and swallow this whole swamp of a state whole

[@carlrodalegrado4104]

Then there would be no more Florida man news :'(

[@blackkitty420]

@@carlrodalegrado4104 just replace it with Texas man news.

[@labaccident2010]

@@blackkitty420 I agree…as a Texan. We’re just as bad at Florida🤣

[@palmolive90]

😁😁😁😁

[@adrianc6534]

that would be a great benefit to us all. florida is a shithole with the most despicable political leaders.

[@joeshmoe6930]

"I've never seen anything like this!" You've never seen glacial calving before? Odd.

[@TexRobNC]

That perspective around 4:45 when you are walking down a steep slope facing another slope is so awkward, you can't tell how steep it is, up and down start becoming confusing because of your eyes telling you something different

[@mnp3713]

Officially Iceland is in Europe. However geographically Iceland is technically both in Europe and North America. Iceland sits on top of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, splitting the country onto two tectonic plates. Making the West part in North America and the East in Europe.

[@MyDogmatix]

That’s fantastic news. As a North American, I look forward to visiting my new found back yard.

[@aardvarkmindshank]

@@MyDogmatix you’d better start saving up then. It’s ridiculously expensive for some unknown reason.

[@Mrbfgray]

Couldn't take more than 45 seconds of this childish garbage vid.

[@AndreaMartinez-qu1be]

Whoa! I didn’t know I eland was on two tectonic plates. 😳

[@travelingtelehealththerapist]

Yep the world political map by plasma moon map shows it clearly!

[@omnegusmedia258]

The scientists should consider a drone that can dump a sensor when it reaches the end of its capability. Something waterproof, buoyant and relaying data remotely.

[@Andrew-wp4mf]

That is actually possible but since this is the first time people are doing something like this, I’m not sure if they thought of it yet. But hopefully they could send a buoyant lidar but they are expensive so that may be another reason… We don’t put money into things with no monetary return value sadly.

[@jacktastick]

That's very clever. Good idea

[@dg8676]

@@Andrew-wp4mf bad idea

[@truthhurtz220]

thats out of budget

[@xxwookey]

How do you propose to 'relay the data remotely' from a small device dropped into the stream under a glacier? A couple of grand will get you a cavelink that can send data extremely slowly (maybe 100 baud) over 700m in rock, given a 100m long aerial. I'm not sure if ice is better or worse in this regard but fundamentally you need a long aerial and a reasonable amount of power to get even a tiny data rate more than about 100m through rock/ice. To use a small aerial (like 1m diameter loop) you need really fat batteries (1Kg or so) and get a range under 100m. Cave radio has severe physical limits which limit what is possible.

[@1sornram]

Thanks for sharing

[@zoboly]

Does the running water down the cave impact the ice melting away? I just would think the constant running water would continuously eat away remaining ice in its path ,can someone answer this if I’m wrong ? It would also seem that the ice is eating away itself aswell

[@Sawedoff53]

yes

[@SMELLYMOIST]

it blows my mind when people say the earth is just changing through natural cycles and humans have nothing to do with this...even if humans were not responsible for this you should still be concerned. Sadly this issue is politicized

[@christitaylor2770]

Well scientists have actually documented the flipping of Earth it's happened before... Mother nature I have a feeling in the next 5 years is going to show us what she's made of....

[@Las_cacas]

Yeah you can just look on a small scale of how we impact our environment.. easter island comes to mind

[@kmoses582]

Should we be concerned that glaciers covered what is now New York City 20,000 years ago? Earth changes, get used to it

[@Las_cacas]

@@kmoses582 Yes we should, because the Earth is inhabited like it hasn't been in the past. I don't think humans are solely to blame, it's just a natural part of the Earth's life cycle. But due to poor city planning, and population growth, and how the world's breadbaskets are going to be impacted. People are going to be highly affected

[@IdahoPohTaToh]

@@christitaylor2770 😂

[@VIGEAVirtualGeographicAgency]

Great experience, we are delighted to have taken part in this documentary!!

[@PYRO-ON]

Great Technology guys! Amazing stuff.

[@melvinreed5378]

Brave people! I'm not sure I could go on that walk. Much respect 👏 They're risking own lives to get this footage for everyone, it's very admiring & honorable 🧡

[@melviasheppard8466]

It's beautiful and dangerous. They're enjoying life to the fullest.

[@melvinreed5378]

@@melviasheppard8466 yes :)

[@pereraddison932]

... each, and every, single, solitary, individual human life, is a personal extinction level event. But, and specificly because of an unprecedented, rapid population explosion, doubled from 4, to 8 billion people in just 50yrs, and along with exponentially exploytative technological development, what we are currently witness to, is what is known as a mass extinction level event ...

[@Soul-ft7bg]

I love how people don't realise this is an add for this drone, there's other devices which would be better for this job...

[@antthompson2253]

The big problem is we have reached a tipping point, the damage has been dealt and there is no going back. The whole world would have to go carbon neutral over night and stay that way for the planet to repair, and unfortunately that is impossible, its only going to get worse.

[@johnsnow5955]

Not totally true. With carbon capture technology we could easily reverse the effects if we tried. We wont ever try though.

[@JohnSmith-pn2vl]

nope, that would be a disaster, we need to emit less C02, not none. in the future we may need to think about how to emit more CO2 since ppl dont understand anythign at all and wanna go carbon neutral.

[@gonnabeok]

We need to depopulate the planet by 40-50% - real pandemic would to the trick.

[@SevenHunnid]

Bro, I’m 20 years old & mexican , grinding hard to get out the hood, I can’t be 30 with nothing to show for so i smoke weed on my youtube channel 😂🤒🤒

[@mapples007]

Yes, we are past the point of no return and those with the power to help will do nothing because they care only about their own lifetime. They will get all the money they can and no care about what consequences will happen after they're gone.

[@MM-mq5uj]

Amazing video / interview. Unfortunatelly, governments won't push the big companies to reduce their impact on the planet - its all about dirty money and politics

[@tonystark2.088]

Climate change is natural, just ask the Woolly Mammoths 🦣

[@Joe-el1zt]

I don’t get it tho so they not think taht it also harms thenselfs and there families

[@elainewalls1965]

You are exactly right. It really makes no sense to me. Do they not care what kind of mess they are leaving their grandchildren? I guess they will be living in an insulated bubble while the world descends in to chaos.

[@Mainekarter2004]

No they are punishiong the small end users,, the ones that have no way to fight against the GOVS or the CORPORATIONS.. WE always pay ! They always profit..

[@elainewalls1965]

@@Mainekarter2004 It is like when your power company tells you that you have to limit your kilowatt usage in the Summer because they can't keep up with the demands. This is 100% a lie. They can buy Gigawatts off the power grid, but they are expensive. That cuts in to their profits.

[@TexRobNC]

Hmm, my first thought was, you all should have brought a tent to hotbox these things. How did nobody think of that ahead of time?

[@malawidick]

Glaciers have receded and advanced since the beginning of the earth's geological history

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

Yes they have, but now they are receding because the climate is warming. And the climate is warming because of rising green house gases. And the GHG are rising and have been rising since the beginning of the industrial age over 150 years ago. And this is already having disasterous consequences to people around the world.

[@thewholeworldisbeautiful]

We don't deserve this beautiful extraordinary big blue ball 🥺😢😭 We can't have nice things.

[@Maya_Pinion]

Yup.for sure.....even the original tribes we stole it from don't want it back.😏

[@JohnSmith-pn2vl]

@@Maya_Pinion hey, not everybody is a US citizen, and you are just 340 mill ;()

[@niavellir7408]

@@JohnSmith-pn2vl I think you mean the entire Americas

[@theeasterbunny8308]

I have nice things and I love what the earth is doing

[@zino7186]

VICE once again outstanding job... thank you

[@Biedropegaz]

this video is communicating false information. Volcanic eruptions cool the climate because of ash particles and other gases emitted to the atmosphere and glacier melting from the bottom in my opinion is because of the heat of near magma plume and hotter air has nothing to do about it. Vice is creating story to create false reality. Melting of glacier is sad but scientist show in the video are clearly enjoying the process.

[@adoe2305]

Outstanding job on not saying anything of substance and fearmongering it's viewers

[@JRJH-cw4pz]

Vice is so over the top when making documentaries it’s eye rolling

[@analieromero2034]

Wow. Glacier calving is awesome.

[@Luke-qs2cg]

It's amazing to think that water hasen't been drank in millions of years, and those rocks haven't been exposed for the same. That's SO interesting to my feeble mind

[@kaylaforever9209]

Yea but with that comes virus and bacteria that we have seen or have cures for

[@jasonlox27]

thousands more like ,possibly 3600 years not millions

[@sadtranz4451]

You piss out the water due to evaporation it forms clouds then rains on some one in say Africa cycle of life

[@chrismullin8304]

Now look to our Visible Universe, and tell me what you see!

[@shamsheed1726]

Give or take 1 or 2

[@payperboii8477]

so the glacier is like a seal covering or capping volcanic rock and lava with pockets where they converge and explode. This is crazy! tbh never really been in snow my entire life but this fascinates me

[@linmonash1244]

Oh OK - should have watched to the end. Yes Volcano's. Exponential impacts. How incredible that with all that volcanic activity underneath there is any ice there at all! Scary.

[@sahib786]

All they got to do is build a giant freezer around it lol

[@JSavPro]

Vice, you've done it again. Such an incredibly important story to tell, and the shots you captured were first class. Truly amazing work guys

[@nikvanscoyk4427]

more fearmongering that is

[@jasonhawthorne8288]

Yeah what a buncha bs.

[@jasonhawthorne8288]

Like so much out there. Bring back Donald Trump.

[@R6-D2]

@@nikvanscoyk4427 Exactly

[@Eusantdac]

Yes, truly amazing! Thank You Vice.

[@erok268]

The implications of this type of research is very interesting in regards to the patterns of glaciation, isostatic rebound, and the younger dryas impact hypothesis.

[@zedooncadhz]

Speak English

[@FrankPCarpi]

@@zedooncadhz It's another one of those purely speculative eons of time past events, whereas in this case it's when the North American, or Laurentide, ice sheet were rapidly melting and adding freshwater to the ocean. There's no quantitative data that can definitely support the hypothesis, as I'd the case for any other extremely long historical narratives that pseudoscientists so assertively propose. In biblical terms: "Professing themselves to be wise, they've become fools."

[@erok268]

The patterns of glaciation is just the cycles between ice ages, isostatic rebound is uplift of the earth's crust due to shifting mass in/on the crust, the yd impact hypothesis is too complicated to really explain, other than it is a theory that a cosmic object(s) struck the lorentide and cordilleran ice sheet, causing rapid deglacition and all the other associated ramifications of such an event. It was also what dictates the geological line of pliestiocene and holocene ages, holocene being the age of humans starring around 12000 years ago. The kosmictusk is a great source with a bibliography for all papers for and against as well as neutral curated by a gentleman that works with some of these scientific groups. It's controversial but I would say the evidence suggests it to be correct. Some people give the younger dryas a spin that is harder for society as a whole to swallow, I can agree with the base idea of thise groups but their woowoo goes farther then what I think to be likely.

[@FrankPCarpi]

@@erok268 I am in agreement with the Institute of Creation Research and the geological scientists in that organization who believe that there has only been one ice age, and it was as a result of the increase in oceanic temperatures due to the splitting open of the great fountains of the deep as we can read about in chapters 6-9 of Genesis. It's the only logical conclusion since it would require a significant rise in sea temperature to cause enough precipitation to form both polar 8ce sheets. Water is s polar molecule, and the Earth's magnetosphere is just a gigantic magnet, which is strongest at the opposite poles of the earth. These forces attract the water molecules mostly at the poles. And then it would have taken several hundred years for the ice sheets to gradually melt away from the lower latitudes.

[@erok268]

@@FrankPCarpi eh, I'm not on board with that, respect you believe that, but you can find glacial till deposits, moraines, cave stalagmites and tites, and other evidence that definitely points to many glacial period, I will add though glacial periods do have a habit of erasing lots of data of anything besides that there was a glacial periods. As for a relatively quick way to form glaciers can be a cosmic impact in a body of water causing a nuclear winter essentially which could saturate the local atmosphere and cause intense rain and it freezes due to the lack of sunlight and intense winds. No one is suggesting that happened, I'm not, but that is a way.

[@Sonic300X]

Thankyou VICE. I definitely needed another thing to worry about…

[@kennethgoodin5804]

Wow! who would have thought that glaciers melt in summer!! Wow, glaciers on top of volcanos can also melt!! WHO KNEW!!!!

[@shawncarroll5255]

I'm not from the far north or anything, but we had a small pond that would freeze really well after a week of below 10F as the daily high. I would walk across the shallow end with my kids, who each in turn had been fascinated by the Frozen pond. But it had warmed up into the twenties, and the ice looked a lot like that first glacier. Rotten ice. My daughter had wanted to go across it again since we'd been doing it the previous week. We had made the agreement that as long as she never did it without me I'd be willing to go out with her. It was only about two feet deep at the point we went skating across. I was being really careful because we'd had some warming and I just didn't like the look of the ice. As we got halfway across suddenly there was this loud breaking noise,, and suddenly this 60 ft crack across a six to eight inch thick ice. I told my 35 lb petite daughter to slide across the ice like she was skating, and then get out. If the ice cracked through to go get her mom, because we might need my tree cutting rope if I got caught in cold water, and ice kept breaking and made it hard for me to get out. Even a foot and a half of freezing water will kill you. And then I started sliding across it, and as I got in the shallow area more cracks started radiating out from the main crack and I was picking my way across a couple of big hunks ice on slushy mud for the last several feet. I never found my daughter's footprints in snow on top of the ice where she had snuck across the frozen pond ever again. It was worth it, if she became a little bit less fearless, or in the case of ice and ponds foolhardy. Glaciers made of rotten ice on top of volcanoes. Why does this sound like the plot of some disaster movie...

[@whybotherha1021]

cus this glacier is shrinking and it has been as glacier since before you were born..

[@mrgray5576]

You have a pond that freezes at 10°f.... Are you really going with that?

[@shawncarroll5255]

@@mrgray5576 Because that is not even a yearly occurrence, and above 10° F there is too much heat in the bottom parts of the pond. I could probably push going on the pond if you had a month of mid-20s with teens every night, but we've never had that here. But when you've had a week of 10F, which means routinely down into the single digits at night, the ice gets thick enough and firm enough that I am much more comfortable walking on it with my kids, and even then only in the shallow end. I have noticed in just the 20 years I have been here, the daffodils which used to start sprouting in March are now almost always sprouting by January, and sometimes even in late December. I've also seen nice a couple of dozen times as a result. Hence my shock at the surface entire smallish glacier being rotten, in Iceland. Notice the team said they'd never seen anything like this either, so I don't think I'm being completely crazy. This has been a very consistent trend, and our hardiness zones has changed a full region from hardiness zone 5 to hardiness zone 6. The plants evidently believe the area is warming.

[@dg4545]

Remember the hunga tonga eruption? That happened the way it did because of ocean water being trapped in the volcanoes magma chamber. Said water would evaporate pretty fast trapping steam within the volcano. Once enough water was trapped within the volcanoes walls it gave in and then BOOM!!! Largest explosive eruption in recent memory. So imagine that happening to undersea volcanoes let alone all over. The more pressure the more explosive the eruption.

[@tanjoy0205]

Props to the Camera Man and Crew for getting there and not being unlived. Edit:There’s Researcher called Thor ?Awesome .

[@Bettie_Rage]

They post video about scientific research and use annoying unscientific units. Wtf is 300 feet...

[@lowwastehighmelanin]

It's like Timothy in Scandinavia. Super common name tbh.

[@cathycruz6387]

Presently we cannot do anything about it. This phenomenon happened from the echoes of time, when everything is crude and going to finer technology. I believe that the world can heal, but I also believe that with change, we can improve things. We cannot undo what WAS and what IS happening at the moment. But what we can do are things we could do for the now, echoing to the future.

[@CoriMultipass]

Those streams going through the glacier are a terrifying thought... one wrong step and you could be caught in the current. As if a docu about melting glaciers wasn't scary enough already.

[@norag8265]

I’ve been wondering when the magma and earth crust issue of less weight from the ice mass losses would finally be mentioned in science.

[@cheyj144]

This guy really knows his stuff

[@cryptocannoli2512]

@@cheyj144 🤣 Then why is he blaming ppl when its been a cycle for millions of yrs. He kindly leaves that part out 👍

[@Cassidy127]

I've often wondered about the reducing piezoelectric effect on the magnetosphere as the melting ice gradually relieves pressure on the rock beneath, but what do I know?..

[@martijndejong1293]

And the warming of the earth crust expanding wil increase pressure on fault lines ! Making earthquake and vulcanic eruptions more frequently possibel! Also the possibel polar shift can more likly happen because of redristributing the weight on different places !

[@hurrdurrmurrgurr]

@@Cassidy127 Good question, do you know anything? Without any evidence we will never know.

[@xxwookey]

I saw the La Venta team's talk about their various Elios drone projects at the UIS (Union International de Speleologie) congress this summer . Nice to see the public version. We could really use cheaper versions of this sort of kit (this one costs €30,000 odd). It's clearly possible to combine conventional drone tech with a lightweight exoskeleton and increasingly cheap lidar sensors to make something you'd be less paranoid about losing. There are lots of difficulties using drone in caves - the radio doesn't work far and there is no GPS so the drone needs very different flight and autonomy algorithms, the venturi effect sucks them into the walls, and of course without the exoskelton you are practically guaranteed to lose the drone except in large chambers. We potholers look forward to this tech becoming more accessible.

[@eddward758]

lol bro is this a drone commercial or is it a documentary on glaciers ? 😂 smh

[@annakeye]

When I watch this and listen to the final words of Thorvardur Arnason, (starting at 16:02) I can't help but think that we are our own great filter. The greater problem is that with a small number of exceptions, we may be the great filter for every living entity on this planet.

[@DistinctiveBlend]

yeah I've thought that myself too.

[@anthonyplanos1580]

I too feel devastated and know without a doubt that large companies are too blame for this spiraling event. We should learn to act now and help to the nature. Everyone's little act will definitely make a change to our beloved planet.

[@LordRykard9376]

What spiraling event? Glaciers doing what they have always done?

[@lanefair2950]

@@LordRykard9376 Yeah but never at the speed they are now because of big companies. Get your tongue off their boot

[@LordRykard9376]

@@lanefair2950 who's boot? Almost 90% of all of the environmental models forecasting global warming have failed. This isn't as big of a problem as you think it is.

[@anthonyplanos1580]

@@LordRykard9376 why is it not a big problem? Can't you see what happening around the world due to climate change? Superfloods and heatwaves wrecking people's home and daily life.

[@sippyface4888]

@@lanefair2950 what color is your bugatti?

[@babybijou969]

The tipping point has already occurred. “Once-in-a-1,000-year” type storms and floods are happening at an increasing rate

[@kmoses582]

No we have not

[@IdahoPohTaToh]

Maybe man should stop fucking with the weather?? Artificially make it rain in one place and create drought in another. There hasn't even been a hurricane this year and hurricane season started in June and ends in November.

[@canyounot4814]

@@IdahoPohTaToh have u ever thought maybe it’s climate change and not weather machines like this video is literally showcasing

[@JoeJoe-go4vd]

Ice sheet melting is off the charts... kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZqleZ59fZiFf80

[@chino3796]

@@IdahoPohTaToh Hurricane season in the Caribbean begins in September.

[@Dot-Dot-Dash]

Glad these brave men can do this research for us.

[@yvonnegonzalez5616]

WOW! MIRACULOUS FOOTAGES. THANX SOOOMUCH!

[@marvellousmeatball123]

To me as a geographer, it is a really interesting insight into glacier science, especially with the approach of mapping and quantifying subglacial loss by drones. However, I feel like the documentary is not really going into the direction it promised to. I wanted to learn more about the details regarding the interactions with the volcanic underground, as it was introduced in the beginning. Still, this specific topic was only briefly brought up for less than a minute at the end. This does not lower the relevance or the importance of this entire subject, but I'm slightly disappointed since I would have loved to learn more about the specific regarding volcanism.

[@JoeJoe-go4vd]

These aren't made to inform U so U could make up your own mind. They're made to play to your emotions (elephants), fears (time is running out) and fundraising (grifting)...

[@xxwookey]

I'm not sure they really know much about the vulcanism part yet. There is probably an effect, but it's very hard to quantify. and fun as this trip was I'm not sure how much real science contribution was made.

[@arturoeugster7228]

@@xxwookey The relevant major cyclel is the glaciation cycle of about 130000 years. The excentricity of Earth's orbit is determined by the alignment of the two giant planets , Jupiter and Saturn. At that point the sun's metacenter is just outside the sun, the Earth's orbit an ellise. The perihelion is passed faster, the cloudiness enhanced leading to a shorter time to warm up of the Earth, which is cooled at the apohelion, leading to the beginning of a long lasting cooling period with a slow, very slow growth of the glaciers, due to an excess of subzero precipitation over a loss due to downwards creep of the nascent glacier and the ever present sublimation of the ice, mainly in and around cracked places when the glacier passes over more inclined subsurface. This process takes around 2/3 of the cooling cycle to the actual maximum glaciation. Last happened ~ 20,000 to 40000 years ago. When the warming starts again, the build down of the glaciers is much faster, heavier glaciers move faster and the cracked surface is enourmous for the initial sublimation to dominate. There after the process depends on the relative humidity and direction of the winds, a 62 year, weak cycle , our present perid.

[@arturoeugster7228]

Melting does not take place, you can see that by the images, where the cracks are not filled up.

[@xxwookey]

@@arturoeugster7228 That's a nice explanation of the orbital effects on the glaciation cycle, but the OP was asking about the vulcanism interactions.

[@shaykespeeer7040]

What isn't mentioned is that as ice around the world melts, it increases the volume of the oceans, which increases the pressures on the tectonic plates bellow.... which WILL increase earthquake and volcanic activity.

[@johnsnow5955]

Eh I mean it does increase pressure but its the reduction in pressure where the ICE was that creates weak points in the tectonic plates for increased volcanic activity.

[@blackkitty420]

Thank you, I was confused how melting ice would correlate with more eruptions.

[@ilovejewelyn]

Heading to Iceland in a week. Very insightful on what’s going on there!

[@Moaritsu]

Please don't skip the glacial lagoon and diamond Beach at the south end of this glacier! It's on the ring road

[@G2Rich_]

Camera guy: Walks down 85 degree angle of ice instead of going around to get a cool shot. Also Camera Guy: “Woah this is Gettin’ Sketchy Dude!”

[@littlefox3252]

It really makes me think how fit you must be to carry a camera and balance yourself in environments like this one.

[@FishFAAW]

Fr, and walking 2 miles in that terrain is like walking 4

[@sendthis9480]

Ummmm….not really. Seems remedial to me. Maybe you’re just SUPER not fit…so this seems harder.

[@sendthis9480]

@@FishFAAW A thru hike averages appx 20 miles per day. 2 or 4…is really not that much.

[@FishFAAW]

@@sendthis9480 it really depends on the trail. If its a straight trail with a couple of turns then yeah, but I'm thinking more of a rugged terrain where you gotta climb hills and rocks.

[@ladydeerheart1]

@SendThis. Not everyone hikes glaciers. You don't have to be rude.

[@anthonyplanos1580]

I'm very thankful to the people who presented us this precious footage and visualization of what's happening on the glaciers. I just hope that this presentation will not go to waste but instead will tap everyone especially the companies contributing on harmful carbon emissions to act and help to prevent a disaster from happening.

[@BubbBlubbii]

big companies only see money not videos

[@anthonyplanos1580]

@@BubbBlubbii that's sad but can't deny the truth.

[@hejshajaha7499]

Many of us will be willing to do it but only a few get paid to. Not great full / thankful of something many are willing to do. Congrats for doing your job if not move on and you’ll be replaced

[@thesjkexperience]

Greed will insure that no action will be taken.

[@thesjkexperience]

@@BubbBlubbii because they aren’t real people despite what the government says.

[@jeremymoore16]

We use flyability's elios 2 drones a good bit at work. Very good drones

[@rikispanglaz7423]

I guess I'll pick this one out the 853 things in life to worry about already.

[@Hyphu]

Makes sense how these caverns are made under the ice. Heat gets picked up and rises under the glacier and is carried through with the water.

[@rufeilrahtieh7885]

If the pollution goes down under we must be f*cked!

[@momentomori5263]

Damage is already done nothing we can do about it humans doesn't think beyond their lifetime!

[@carolynforge8586]

John 10:10 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy;

[@momentomori5263]

@@carolynforge8586 indeed brother greed is the one thing that will destroy us all

[@LostMexicanFilms]

Ironically! That is the equivalent of 33.33 trillion sparrows if one were to take the average weight of a sparrow!

[@plenneybarkdull2714]

Theoretically is there a way to collect or channel the ash cloud down if a major eruption endangered crops from uv blockage?

[@eviljonbob_]

it's insane to think about how long those glaciers took to form and in less than hundred years they're being destroyed. Probably disappearing forever soon.

[@blackkitty420]

Hooray for humanity! /S

[@coolhanddruid]

@@blackkitty420 Do you even stop to think about how much the planet changed before us?

[@sendthis9480]

@@coolhanddruid On Gondwanaland, the Sahara Desert was a rain forest, and Antarctica was a dry and desolate desert.

[@suedenim6590]

It's fine yellowstone will go this year so it won't matter

[@blackkitty420]

@@coolhanddruid it took eons for the planet to go through different climatic changes, sometimes triggered by natural events ( volcanic eruptions) other times by special events such as meteor strikes etc, humans have barely come into the picture and already we have altered our climate so much we have a geologic period named after us the anthropocene. Before humans species would normally go extinct every thousand years or so but after humans started multiplying and forming societies species were dying out at a faster rate and after the industrial revolution the die offs caused by humans has basically skyrocketed.

[@transcendmeta]

We were way past “worrying” being a part of any solution 20yrs ago. Now we sit while mass denial assures our complete collapse. May we make peace with whatever part we’ve played in all of it.

[@electriceyeball]

Having ptsd and depression for whatever reasons, they become that much more difficult to control effectively knowing the world of man is straight up recklessly suicidal....or already pulled the trigger, the body just doesn't realize it's dead yet. That thought terrifies me on a subcellular level

[@transcendmeta]

@@electriceyeball hang in there. The dread of being a sitting duck at a global/cosmic level is certainly a heavy as f burden. Meditation and mushrooms help. Softens the ego a bit so one can shed enough fear to see some light in just being.

[@electriceyeball]

@@transcendmeta I agree 100%...lord knows where I'd be without psychaedelics

[@electriceyeball]

@@Oshiiiiiiiiiiii thank you

[@napajwolf13]

It’s like watching your guardians crumble before you. You are no longer safe.

[@mafffew9700]

I despise being told I should be worried about something. Worry is such a waste of time and completely unhelpful. You may as well be saying “you need to have bad mental health”

[@michaelleblanc2097]

This has got to be the coolest thing ever, I was there within a few days to maybe a week of when they filmed this hole thing. I was told I was not allowed to do any drone filming, rules of the national park. So thank you, I now have the video I could never get.❤

[@annabellefriedrich162]

This is so interesting! I actually hiked on the glacier where they started out. Would love to go back and learn more.

[@gypsylove4291]

Miraculo 😂us

[@robbb416]

That was devastating to watch.

[@GoldenBoy-et6of]

Their saying the reason the hole is there is cause shrinking but dont account for the warm water stream channeling directly in that spot. These people have nothing but air in their heads

[@GoldenBoy-et6of]

For those that dont know the streams in green land are all beetween 40 and 200 degrees because all the volcanic activity, everything they said in this is complete nonsense.

[@sentientflower7891]

Keep in mind that the rate of pollution continues to accelerate and the lag time between today's level of pollution and the response of the climate is twenty years, so things are going to get really ugly before 2050.

[@JoeJoe-go4vd]

Yeah that's what they said back in the 30's, the 40's, the 50's, the 60's, the 70's, the 80's, the 90's.....Yet we're still here.

[@haydensmith888]

This is really fascinating and also terrifying. I feel like we’ve been saying for years “we need to act now and make changes” but we don’t really seem to be doing anything differently? So we are on a collision course with doom and the only thing left to say is “we told you so”

[@IdahoPohTaToh]

You need to pay more taxes if you want to help the planet!!

[@hebneh]

What wasn't mentioned in this report was that hot lava reaching the surface under ice will lead - not surprisingly - to instant melting. And this can create a significant, abrupt flood. This is only a threat to very limited areas in Iceland itself, however.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

When the magma makes contact with water or in this case it becomes a Phreatomagmatic eruption. Water or ice expands 1700 its volume when converted to water vapor. That's called sublimation. That's why the Hunga Tonga eruption was so powerful as millions of gallons of water was suddenly converted to water vapor and projected all the way to the stratosphere.

[@hebneh]

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 Fortunately for Iceland, the amount of steam or water that an eruption might create from under an ice sheet is far less than what can happen from the bottom of the ocean.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

@@hebneh Yes I think are quite correct on that point. Nevertheless a Phreatomagmatic eruption at Grunsvotñ would be something to see.

[@fouzaannoble5726]

It grounded one hundred thousand flights in 2010. Wow! Is that more concerning than the water levels rising and taking out beach cities?

[@shannonbritton5313]

This is the kind of vice we need more of 💙✌️

[@alexanderpowell1528]

Why? In South Korea, there's a group that looks for North Korean spy/infiltration tunnels- if they find evidence of a tunnel, people donate money to them. If they find nothing the funding dries up so, they require ongoing fear to get more funding. Same as in Australia where natural coral die-back has been labeled 'catastrophic' by some at a uni department that is dependent on the Great Barrier Reef being in danger. Only by the reef being in danger can their research be further funded. This glacier melting threat is a financial scam for scientists to live off- you can bet money on elites like Schwab, Soros, Obama, Al Gore, Bill Gates, etc all supporting it though, while they buy multi-million dollar beachside properties thanks to the useful idiots who fund them. No, vice is making really low qual content. I'm surprised vice didn't call on uneducated Greta for more uneducated fear-mongering.

[@adoe2305]

We have plenty of scienceless fearmongering vice.

[@Iexapro]

I just hope people will see things like this and realize it’s much braver to see this evidence and continue fighting to protect the future of humanity than to be indifferent and continue to let things worsen. We deserve better.

[@cscheatum]

It’s too late. We’ve sealed our fate. Now we’re just observing and documenting the end.

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

Of all the things I could be possibly be worried about this glacier is at the very bottom of my list

[@XSpImmaLion]

Amazing... and terrifying at the same time. What are the chances permafrost melt might end up in a catastrophic volcanic eruption that throws so much ash up that it ends up cooling the planet instead? I mean, we as a species would be f'd at that point one way or another, but it'd be pretty interesting if one of those runaway events ends up reversing things suddenly and drastically...

[@heyharlie4013]

I like the way you think

[@ellaquincy5037]

You should check out some information on Flood Basalt Eruptions. It's fucking awful and it would cause even more catastrophic warming before it cooled. We're well and truly fucked.

[@cancon88]

There is something nice about the possibility of seeing the end in our lifetime

[@DaveAwesome]

11:49 wow this gets intense!

[@Jugghead808]

let us be more cautious and improve for a better future

[@thorium9503]

What do you call someone who steals a glacier? *An iceberglar*

[@Alabastien]

IMO the tipping point was past years ago. What we are seeing now is the continued cascading of events of said tipping point . There is nothing we can do to prevent the change in climate. We can only work towards not exacerbating the severity of the fluctuations by focusing on pollution reduction, updating our infrastructure & technology, and consumption habits as best we can to deal with the chaos.

[@OdinOfficialEmcee]

And let's not forget ending global capitalism. That would help a lot.

[@Jakethesnake7321]

The climate has been warming and cooling for billions of years. It’s natures way. Nothing will stop it.

[@DeviLz1337]

Those events took millions of years to go from very hot to very cold back then, unlike today, when it's happening in just a few tens or hundreds of years.

[@candychandogrescuerjimbara207]

I have neighbour, a couple, once they inside their house, the AC on like 24hrs. They never open windows, door. While me, only use fan, and open up windows doors on daytime. So sad with AC on most of the time 😢

[@YewtBoot]

Where the glaciers in Alaska are quickly melting, the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center, which tracks earthquakes around the Ring of Fire, is noting small earthquakes at ground level. In other words, the land that was formerly under the weight of a LOT of ice, is rebounding upwards. Science is so wonderful!

[@HenkjanDeKaasboer]

Love how this glacier carries this many African elephants with it, just when their numbers were falling (again). Truly beautiful how nature balances out in the end, no? If the glacierguy who makes these is listening somehow, please do the dodo next. Thanks

[@happyguy8725]

like watching the timer run down on some kind of explosive device.

[@tiny99990]

4:54 this image hurts my brain... they appear to be walking down a slope of >45 while I understand they are on ice and they have ice shoes the guy pictured does not appear to be leaning back but rather standing up quite straight and somehow not falling forward... what an interesting optical illusion