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    The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
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    The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
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    The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
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    The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

    Published by Penguin Random House Audio

    Narrated by Fred Sanders

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    A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change.

    Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet that covers it is 700 miles wide and 1,500 miles long, and is composed of nearly three quadrillion tons of ice. For the last 150 years, explorers and scientists have sought to understand Greenland — at first hoping that it would serve as a gateway to the North Pole, and later coming to realize that it contained essential information about our climate. Locked within this vast and frozen white desert are some of the most profound secrets about our planet and its future. Greenland’s ice doesn’t just tell us where we’ve been. More urgently, it tells us where we’re headed.

    In The Ice at the End of the World, Jon Gertner explains how Greenland has evolved from one of earth’s last frontiers to its largest scientific laboratory. The history of Greenland’s ice begins with the explorers who arrived here at the turn of the 20th century — first on foot, then on skis, then on crude, motorized sleds — and embarked on grueling expeditions that took as long as a year and often ended in frostbitten tragedy. Their original goal was simple: to conquer Greenland’s seemingly infinite interior. Yet their efforts eventually gave way to scientists who built lonely encampments out on the ice and began drilling — one mile, two miles down. Their aim was to pull up ice cores that could reveal the deepest mysteries of earth’s past, going back hundreds of thousands of years.

    Today, scientists from all over the world are deploying every technological tool available to uncover the secrets of this frozen island before it’s too late. As Greenland’s ice melts and runs off into the sea, it not only threatens to affect hundreds of millions of people who live in coastal areas. It will also have drastic effects on ocean currents, weather systems, economies, and migration patterns.

    Gertner chronicles the unfathomable hardships, amazing discoveries, and scientific achievements of the Arctic’s explorers and researchers with a transporting, deeply intelligent style — and a keen sense of what this work means for the rest of us. The melting ice sheet in Greenland is, in a way, an analog for time. It contains the past. It reflects the present. It can also tell us how much time we might have left.

    Editor's Note

    In the news…

    Antarctic sea ice levels suddenly plunged from a record high to record lows, while scientists at the opposite pole are racing to uncover climate secrets in Greenland’s rapidly melting ice sheets. Find out what that ice can tell us about not only earth’s history, but humanity’s future.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 11, 2019
    ISBN9781984885074
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      The first half of this book is about the maverick explorers who first crossed Greenland and how they dealt with the extreme conditions, The second half chronologically follows the various technological breakthroughs like core drilling, satelitte imagery and advances in transportation that have led to the conclusion that Greenland and west Antarctica are melting and in the next few decades may lead to changes in sea level from 7 to 20 feet higher. By 2100 drastic changes to climate will affect our planet.