Arctic Sea Researchers Say We Need To Do a Lot More to Stop the Melting Ice

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Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute traveled to the Arctic Sea to study the effects of climate change, and they say more needs to be done to stop Arctic and Antarctic ice from melting. Veuer’s Matt Hoffman reports.

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00:00The North and South Poles are getting less and less frozen.

00:03Marine biologist Antje Boetius is the president of the Alfred Wegener Institute Research Organization.

00:08Every two years, they do research on-site in the Arctic Sea, where climate change has been causing the ice to melt.

00:14And in the last few years, ice at the southern end of the world has been melting as well.

00:18Now, in the past few years, we have looked at an immense decline of an Arctic sea ice

00:23and a beginning loss of sea ice-dependent life, such as the emperor penguin.

00:28And so the big struggle that we have right now in the climate and polar sciences is,

00:34why is Antarctica all of a sudden so fast? Will this trend continue?

00:38Boetius says humanity isn't doing enough to stop this process.

00:42We will go far beyond two degrees at the current trajectory of climate gas emissions.

00:47So we are too slow. And the threats, this is also what science has to communicate at these COPS.

00:52COPS stands for Conference of the Parties, and it's a global climate change summit which will start Friday in Dubai.

00:58One issue this summit will have to address is what to do about the steady warming of the world's coldest places.

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