NOW on PBS | On Thin Ice | Preview | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/now/on-thin-ice.html Buy the DVD: http://www.shoppbs.org/entry.point?entry=3529030&source=PBSCS_YOUTUBE_NOW... This video previews the one-hour NOW special, "On Thin Ice" airing April 17 (check local listings) In it, two men go on a remarkable journey high in the Himalayas to investigate threats to global water and food supply. David Brancaccio and environmentalist Conrad Anker -- one of the world's leading high altitude climbers - adventure to the Gangotri Glacier in the Himalayan Mountains, the source of the Ganges River, to witness the great melt and its dire consequences first-hand. The two also visit Montana's Glacier National Park to see the striking effects of global warming closer to home and learn how melting glaciers across the world can have a direct impact on food prices in the U.S.

Visit http://www.pbs.org/now/on-thin-ice.html right now for a special preview video, David's 12-day travel journal, and amazing photographs from their adventure.

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[oldParasiteSingle]

When I told my professors in 1999 and 2002 that shadow finance deregulation under Phil Graham, corporate elitism under Greenspan, and secrecy under Bush would destabilize society they told me that same garbage and called me a leftist wingnut traitor. I had the same answer for them that I have for you, give it some time and wait and see.

[bryandlarock]

It will be, and instead of feeling the fear, you should begin to prepare.

[MaryGreeley]

I see now in Southern California because of the oceans rising they are moving bike paths and road inland now.

[mikefastener]

@TheRealArchAngel I agree that they "miss the obious (sic)"....the climate is changing, as it has for millions of years, surprise, surprise!

[TheRealArchAngel]

Not to mention some people miss the obious

It's those big white fluffy things over thier heads that rebuilds the icecaps and provides the water

the Ice sheet is still there yet they can show a dry bed of the river in the summer month when there is less clouds over the Mountains to rain down and create the river....{rollseyes}

[mikefastener]

At 3:56 we see an even bigger problem is the data they say must come from satalite imagary has 4 of the 6 dates of glacier coverage that would not have been imaged by satellites! (Goodness one date looks like 1780!!!)

[TheRealArchAngel]

Exactly,

Instead of bitching and moaning to get off oil/coal and changing lightbulbs to CFCs the Indian governments should start building extensive aquaducts and aquafers to move water from near the ocean down stream or nearer to the glaciers and highpoints where seasonal water collects pre melt

Haing a Seawater to freshwater plant make then pump water back inland would be a added benifit

Of course all that PVC and water moving ttecnology needs oil and coal to make it (smirk)

[TheRealArchAngel]

3:45 - 3:58

"But Because these remote Ice fields are tough to reach, they are also hard to monitor. The COMPELLING scientific data comes from sattilite imagary"

My problem with this is

1) Ice Depth isn't mentioned in remaining Glacer

2) Snow fall from clouds comming of Oceans and water sources entering high mountains and causing seasonal floods are not properly identified (Seasonal river assumes no constant flow from Glaciers but seasonal flow from spring melt water)

[renukart]

What you wrote is absolutely true.

[renukart]

This video shows the reality as what is happening in the planet. If we don't act now, then its not us but our generations to suffer... We will be giving them more diseases, pollution, nuclear plants, less water to fight for, in legacy.