Glaciers and climate change
Date: Thu, Nov 04, 2021 | 14:00 - 14:00 GMT | 15:00 - 15:00 CET
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Format: 16:9
As world leaders gather for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of Parties, ESA highlights the role of space technology in the monitoring and mitigation of climate change. One area of focus is how rising global temperatures are taking their toll on glaciers.
Glaciers across the globe have lost over nine trillion tonnes of ice in half a century. How will glaciers look over the coming decades? “It all depends on what humans are doing now in terms of greenhouse gas emissions” – this is the message one scientist delivered during a recent ESA-led expedition to the Gorner Glacier system in Switzerland, one of the biggest ice masses in the Alps.
This B-roll offers scenes from the expedition, as well as interviews with specialists who explain the affects of climate change on glaciers, and how these are monitored: https://www.esa.int/esatv/Videos/2021/09/Glaciers_and_climate_change
Interviews include:
Luca Parmitano
ESA astronaut
(English, Italian)
Simonetta Cheli
Head of Strategy, Programme & Coordination Office, Directorate of Earth Observation Programmes, ESA*
(English, Italian, French)
*As of 1 January 2022: ESA Director of Earth Observation Programmes
Susanne Mecklenburg
Head of ESA’s Climate Office
(English)
Anna Maria Trofaier
Cryosphere scientist, ESA Climate Office
(English)
Frank Paul
Senior Researcher at the University of Zurich
(English, German)
Daniel Farinotti
Glaciologist at ETH Zurich
(English, French, Italian, German)
Thirty-minute ‘Melt’ documentary available at: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2021/11/Melt
Short video/teaser (English, Italian) available at: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2021/09/Glaciers_and_climate_change2#
More information at: https://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/EarthObservation/CLIMATE_KIT.pdf