| Length | 59:00 |
| Licensor | Inside Out Documentaries |
| Producer(s) | Daniel Grossman |
| Formats | Documentary |
| Topics | Environment, Public Affairs, Science |
| Produced | December, 2007 |
| Added to PRX | December 3, 2007 |
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hosted by Walter Cronkite - a tour of the world's icy regions in the new era of global warming
Edited and produced by George Hicks & Anna Bensted
April 22: Earth Day
Engaging, Informational, Sound Rich
English
In this one-hour special report from WBUR's Inside Out Documentaries, hosted by Walter Cronkite, award-winning science journalist Daniel Grossman travels to the ends of the earth - literally - to gain firsthand accounts of the latest research on the state of the world's ice cover in this new era of climate change.
Meltdown: Inside Out takes us on a global tour from the massive ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica, to tropical mountain glaciers, to the sea ice of the far north and south, introducing us to the leading scientists in the field.
Daniel Grossman takes us on the Greenland Ice Sheet, where a team of glaciologists uses a fascinating variety of techniques to investigate recent dramatic changes in the ice sheet's outflow.
Meltdown: Inside Out next goes high in the Peruvian Andes, where renowned geologist Lonnie Thompson is continuing his 30-year study of Quelccaya, the world's largest tropical mountain glacier. Thompson explains that Quelccaya has lost 30 percent of its volume in his time there, and will probably be gone by the end of this century.
In Meltdown: Inside Out, we hear the latest projections from scientists at the vanguard of climate change study. Daniel Grossman transports us to the Antarctic Peninsula, where researcher Bill Fraser tracks declining penguin populations, then aboard a ship through the Arctic winter to within 800 miles of the North Pole, where we explore the anticipated effects of increased human activity.
Meltdown: Inside Out is a timely and important program, riveting and rich in its presentation of sounds and voices within the story, as with all Inside Out productions. Your listeners' experience is enhanced with extra materials at our website - http://www.insideout.org
For more information, please contact
Namita Raina
National Program Administrator
WBUR Boston
617-353-8160
nraina@wbur.bu.edu
