Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers
Adrienne Block: 30 Second Science
Season 2010 Episode 19 | 45s | Video has closed captioning.
Adrienne Block: 30 Second Science
Aired: 02/18/10
Problems Playing Video? | Closed Captioning
Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers
Season 2010 Episode 19 | 45s | Video has closed captioning.
Adrienne Block: 30 Second Science
Aired: 02/18/10
Problems Playing Video? | Closed Captioning
(ominous music) - A lot of people today are curious about global warming.
If you melted the ice in west Antarctica, New York would be under water.
But if you wanna talk about raising sea level, you have to talk about antarctic ice streams.
These are the places where you go for moving the ice at maybe 10 meters a year on the continent, moving it into the ocean at rates of over a hundred meters per year.
What I study is how water gets into those ice streams and helps them to speed up, and delivering literally tens of gigatons of ice into the ocean, melting it, and raising sea level.