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Podcast: TED Talks series - Lee Hotz: Inside an Antarctic time machine

TED Talks
Initial Publication Date: July 11, 2015

Summary

Science columnist Lee Hotz describes a remarkable project at West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide, Antarctica, where a hardy team are drilling into ten-thousand-year-old ice to extract vital data on our changing climate.


Learning Goals

To explain how studying ice cores can explain Earth's historic atmosphere, and in turn help us understand solutions for the current climate change problem.

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Description and Teaching Materials

Listen or Download >> TED Talks: Lee Hotz: Inside an Antarctic time machine

Teaching Notes and Tips

As an explaination for why understanding Earth's past atmospheric changes are important for creating sustainable solutions for the future of Earth's atmosphere and climate.

Assessment

Assessment is at the discretion of the educator and how this video is applied.

References and Resources

Robert Lee Hotz is the science columnist for the Wall Street Journal, where he writes about cutting-edge research on climate change, cosmology, molecular medicine, the human brain and much more ... He has traveled three times to the South Pole. Full Bio>>

Citation

Talks, T. (2012). Podcast: TED Talks series - Lee Hotz: Inside an Antarctic time machine.