![]() Temperature, you know what does 1 degree C mean? It's 1 degree centigrade warmer. You see, 'Oh, it was there and now it's not.' And you can see change. ![]() "Ice is an interesting thing because it's binary," he tells Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson. He's director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES, at the University of Colorado Boulder, and a former chief scientist for NASA who studies polar ice. ![]() Waleed Abdalati, meanwhile, is watching ice melt - increasingly fast - in its natural habitat, in Greenland and Antarctica. A visual, tangible representation of what's at stake as the climate changes. Climate Change Conference winds down this week in Paris, people in the city can still go see a big, outdoor art installation outside the Pantheon that's been up since the talks began: 88 tons of Arctic ice, trucked in from Greenland, arranged in the shape of a clock, slowly melting into the cobblestones.
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