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Miniseries "Frozen Planet" » On Thin Ice
00:57:51
Nouns
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5th
"5th of May," and we're like, "How does he know that?"
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6th
She'd be down here probably around the 5th or 6th of May.
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3)
pentolite
What we have here is one kilogram of pentolite explosive.
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dwindle
And as the ice dwindle,
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unpredictability
The increasing unpredictability of the ice
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airstrip
between our tent and the airstrip,
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underweight
Cubs that were born underweight are at the greatest risk.
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albedo
This is called the albedo effect,
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9)
walrus
Mother walrus, confused by the lack of ice,
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10)
cameraman
Unexpected breakups left many a cameraman in need of a swift rescue.
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11)
beak
The bright orange beak of gentoo penguins
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12)
kilogram
What we have here is one kilogram of pentolite explosive.
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13)
underside
in mapping the underside of the ice around the coast,
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14)
extremity
that forms the northern extremity of the Antarctic continent.
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breakup
This satellite transmitter will help to track the continued breakup
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16)
kilometer
through over a kilometer of vertical ice.
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summertime
It's so thin that it could melt away almost entirely in the summertime
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18)
sled
Dog sled are the safest way to get around
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19)
sonar
Using cameras and sonar to assess the state of the river,
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lubricant
The theory is that the water is acting as a lubricant,
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pup
That pup of hers is only about three or four days old,
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reflector
The frozen Arctic Ocean acts as a huge reflector,
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riches
it will be much easier to drill for the huge riches below.
Verbs
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disintegrate
The edge of the ice shelf has just kind of disintegrate,
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2)
ringe
Ringed seals are hunted by polar bears.
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centigrade
by nearly three degrees centigrade over the last 50 years,
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halve
In fact, it's nearly halve in thickness since 1980.
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starve
It may be that penguins are starving or it may be that they are heading south
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deteriorate
the condition of their local bears deteriorate.
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thaw
The breakup when the frozen river above the waterfall thaw
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8)
unleash
to witness the destruction that's unleash,
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9)
smother
The Antarctic continent is smother by the world's greatest ice sheet,
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unfold
So, it just depends upon how dramatically it unfold.
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accumulate
formed from thousands of years of accumulate snowfall.
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absorb
Because sea water is dark, it absorb most of the sun's heat.
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toss
Thousand-ton ice boulders were toss about like dice.
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threaten
Many Arctic animals are threaten by the changing conditions
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melt
but when the ice melt, it's a different story.
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shrink
Most of South Georgia's glaciers have shrunk
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disappear
Alun's team have found the hole down which the lake disappear
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crush
and it's caused many youngsters to be crush to death.
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expose
They're heading for areas of expose rock,
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emerge
It can be -40 degrees centigrade when polar bear cubs emerge
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bump
and I've just bump into the Russian Commander
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22)
burst
when the dams burst.
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freeze
that have been frozen for thousands of years
Adverbs
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staggeringly
It's a staggeringly big ice sheet but it's just a drop in the ocean
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southwards
in a wave that's been travelling southwards,
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upriver
Just 10 miles upriver, the ice is starting to break.
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outwards
It all pushes outwards very quickly.
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crucially
Crucially, the ice blocks did not dam the river, it's running free,
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unwittingly
was unwittingly begun on an expedition led by the great early explorer,
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radically
that could radically alter the face of the planet.
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luckily
but luckily it held and everyone was able to evacuate
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seemingly
With the breakup seemingly imminent,
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upstream
to monitor the situation upstream of the waterfall.
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sometime
Chances are that sometime within the next few decades,
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dramatically
So, it just depends upon how dramatically it unfolds.
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afterwards
Afterwards, the glaciers it had been holding back
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14)
occasionally
Occasionally, a real mega-berg is born.
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increasingly
Events like this have become increasingly common
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16)
overnight
has, overnight, widened to 20 meters.
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apart
are breaking apart and melting away.
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tight
This very tight crowding isn't normal
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possibly
and possibly get trapped here for a few days.
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effectively
that is effectively plummeting to the depths of the ice sheet
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twice
but the Arctic has been warming fast, twice as fast as the rest of our planet.
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forth
and I say I walk it down, I back and forth every day on the river
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absolutely
Absolutely unbelievable!
Adjectives
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5th
She'd be down here probably around the 5th or 6th of May.
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2)
centigrade
It can be -40 degrees centigrade when polar bear cubs emerge
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underweight
that if this was underweight, she would be in trouble,
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evasive
We just have to live with it and take whatever evasive action we can.
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anesthetic
The team works together to give an anesthetic injection
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abrupt
but many of them come to an abrupt end.
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dorsal
that can live year-round in the Arctic because they have no dorsal fin.
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staggering
A staggering 75% of the Earth's fresh water is locked up in this ice.
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understandable
So it's very understandable that this mother ringed seal,
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imminent
With the breakup seemingly imminent,
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unconscious
lolling about unconscious on the ice,
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gigantic
Antarctica's gigantic continental ice sheet.
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immense
to form immense masses of floating fresh water ice
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devastating
and that can lead to devastating flooding in the town
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unbelievable
This is what we're here for. Unbelievable!
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antarctic
since I first went to the Antarctic 30 years ago.
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explosive
What we have here is one kilogram of pentolite explosive.
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uncertain
and the rest of the race of polar bears as they face this very uncertain future.
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asleep
I’ll just back off until she's asleep.
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upstream
What happens is...is you get ice jams form upstream
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shallow
Most of the ice is lost over the shallow coastal waters
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magnificent
Nobody likes to see a magnificent animal like a polar bear
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keen
The Inuit are keen to know what the future holds, too,
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