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  • in april of this year.

  • The temperature over Greenland was much higher than normal.

  • An engineer on one of the helicopters took a video during this temperature spike.

  • Those are parts of the glacier just exploding with the high temperatures.

  • All right.

  • Hey.

  • Eric how are you doing?

  • So you see the line on the ridge here.

  • That green line is Where the ice surface was back in the 80s.

  • Not so long ago.

  • Not long ago at all.

  • Mhm.

  • Yeah.

  • It's amazing to think that just 30 years ago where we are right now, it was all covered by the big ice sheet.

  • I think a lot of us start a bit shell shocked by some of the changes.

  • It's a bit hard to believe.

  • Mm Yeah.

  • Yeah.

  • You ready for me?

  • Yeah, I'll hold the ladder.

  • Thank you Bianca.

  • Yeah, no problem out.

  • Welcome to Swiss.

  • Can.

  • Yeah.

  • So yeah, We have 20 automatic weather stations measuring the climate.

  • This camp is just one of them.

  • This is the cumulative height change of melt since 2002.

  • Now, we lost 12 m of eyes at that declaration.

  • That was our former station level with the surface, very deep pillars.

  • We came back next season.

  • That's where we are now.

in april of this year.

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