Day 4 - BBC Worldwide Advent Calendar

Welcome to the BBC Worldwide Advent Calendar! We're wishing you the best of the festive season this year with an interactive calendar, and this video forms part of a series of 25 of the best Christmas or Winter-themed videos available on YouTube. Click anywhere on the video to return to the Advent Calendar and open more doors. For more high quality videos, visit http://www.youtube.com/BBCWorldwide. For Friday 4th December, NASA scientists take to the skies above Greenland to take measurements of one of the biggest blocks of frozen water in the world. Taken at five yearly intervals, these measurements are crucial to calculating the effects of global warming. Fascinating clip taken from the BBC Horizon programme Big Chill.

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• BBC
• Science
• Global Warming
• Ice
• Greenland
• NASA
• Christmas
• Advent Calendar

[mireah]

But without some flights over there, how would you when the shit's about to hit the fan? Sometimes these things are very necessary.

[shelbierocks]

That's really scary. :/

[Ryomoto]

We could use a lil' extra sea water!

[BoredChemist]

the Maldives are already being affected by the melting of the ice caps

[melliemcb]

Nothing personal BBC but I am going to use last year's Doctor Who advent calendar. It's much better even if I did fly 5000 miles from LA to London at Xmas last year to see David Tennant in Hamlet only to be disappointed. "Back Surgery" What eva.

[flyingfisbeefilms]

Erm guys these are turbo props which pollute far less than jet engines - OK they still pollute but not as much than an average diesel city bus.

[Oneandoneself]

fuck you fliying is fun

[JoeyPsych]

I guess my country will be the first to feel the effects of this problem, considering that it's a couple of meters below sealevel, yes, I am Dutch...

[ponhand]

Global Warming since the end of Ice Age. NO CARBON TAXES!!!!!!!!!

[Hazzoufc]

When was this filmed?