The melting ice of the Arctic (2/2) | DW Documentary
Soon the Arctic will be ice-free in summer. While many are concerned about the consequences for the global climate, countries like Russia and the US, as well as China and Canada see an ice-free Arctic as an opportunity, offering everything from new trade routes to mineral resources and tourism.
Part 1: • The melting ice of the...
In two episodes, this documentary reports on a region of the world that is changing dramatically because of climate change. This change affects the lives of the people who make their home in the Arctic, of course. The film team experiences first-hand what it means to live at the mercy of the forces of nature in this inhospitable region, which makes for an adventurous and frightening journey.
But the ramifications of an Arctic thaw are felt around the globe. Climate change is progressing faster here than in the rest of the world, and it is moving the Arctic into the focus of global politics. Littoral states and world powers are fighting for influence, here. At the heart of their interest: access to mineral resources and new transport routes. Because, as the ice melts, new, shorter shipping routes are opening up. Is a new conflict looming at the North Pole?
And how do the people in the far north experience the change in their environment? The film team travels through the northern reaches of the US, Canada, Greenland, Norway and Russia. The journalists experience the wonder of nature in these regions and meet people who have adapted over centuries to life in these cold, inhospitable realms. Now, they face a new struggle, as global power players swoop in.
In the second part of the documentary, the film team boards a Norwegian frigate off Spitsbergen. There, they observe NATO’s response to the growing Russian influence in the region. This includes observation missions and an increased presence; there is even talk of bringing back submarines decommissioned since the end of the Cold War. Norway's intelligence service has clearly observed a more aggressive Russian military presence in the Arctic in recent years. Apparently, Russia wants to make it clear that it can dominate the Arctic.
Indeed, Russia identified the Arctic as an important sphere of influence following the end of the Cold War, especially with regard to the Northeast Passage. Alexei Chekunkov, Russia's Minister of Arctic Development, explains why: "The northern shipping route from China via Siberia and Scandinavia is 40 per cent shorter than the route via the Indian Ocean, the Suez Canal, and the Mediterranean." Climate change, he said, represents an opportunity for Russia. But how to get energy to where it’s needed in northern Siberia? The "Akademik Lomonosov," a floating nuclear power plant, may be one answer. Currently anchored in the port of Pevek, Russia's northernmost city, it can supply energy to some 100,000 households. The region around Pevek, which until now was home to just a few miners and reindeer herders, is thus one of several jumping-off points for Russia's tightening grip on the north.
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Hats off to the writers of this documentary. Narration had the biggest impact and made it complete.
Yea, they are some of the best fear mongering writers of the liberal propaganda machine.
Your 100 percent right michal
@@tinangkong Na, its just the usual propaganda bs lies, nothing unusual
@@roberthicks1612 Look at the oldest pictures of the Statue of Liberty you can find showing the water line around its base. Now look at the recent images showing the same thing. Are Al Gore`s predictions of rapidly rising seas happening? Did you know that the seas are rising slower now than they were 5000 years ago or even 2000 years ago? Did you know there is MORE ice in the Arctic now than there was 5000 years ago? Did you know Antarctica is GAINING ICE...not losing ice? Did you know rapid temperature changes are the NORMAL and this relatively stable period that allowed our civilization to flourish is a FREAK EVENT? Did you know the temperature can change by as much as 15 degrees C in 100 years and has many times? So the actual TRUTH about climate is far more terrifying than their childish lies. And if we don`t admit there is nothing we can do to prevent crazy climate changes and PREPARE FOR THEM we will probably lose our civilization sooner than you might think. Do any of you remember the massive ice storm in Canada that came within one downed power line of an entire CITY being evacuated for months? Remember the deaths in Texas from the Feb 2021 Winter storm (but only Texas was ridiculed by leftist monsters!)? Imagine something similar happening all the way to the Gulf Coast in America but it doesn`t end for months or years. Imagine Europe buried under ice that just won`t stop. How will we get food? How will we repair the power lines if the ice won`t stop? THIS IS THE REAL DANGER THEY AREN`T TELLING YOU ABOUT!
Yes, we`ll just blame BillyBob in Alabama over natural climate variations like good little hypocrite bigots while puttering around in motorboats, airplanes, jets, etc, and telling more lies for profit. Do these people WANT another massive glacial period? There`s more ice in the Arctic now than the average over the past 10,000 years. They know this. They`re liars!
I bet the cameras did no justice to the scenery you guys experienced…even so this was very beautiful! Good luck to Olga and her family☘️..I appreciate young strong minded women like her👍🏼🌎💙
It was a very nice, brilliant, and informative documentary. It deserves a nominated Oscar Award.
Nearly all DW documentaries do
Russia wants to control everything and everyone. They(not Putin but most of population) hate all civilized world.
oscar or emmy?
yea, they should give it the award for best fiction in a non science propaganda piece of the decade.
@@roberthicks1612 and your point is?
Utterly fascinating, beautiful and extraordinarily insightful. Thank you again DW for another brilliantly filmed and produced documentary of such great importance!!
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@@DWDocumentary hi what is the name of the song at 28:15?
Of course Russia owns 53% of the shoreline. Any nation with this much frontier with potential mineral wealth would do the same.
As a Russian I find this documentary to be outstanding
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Astonishing documentary, amazing images, a beautiful portrait of northern living on the edge and an absolutely frightening picture of global tensions.
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Such an incredible landscape. Kudos to the locals who have learned to survive in it.
Greenlanders is a tuff people
These people who live up there are hearty souls. I have limitless respect for them for being able to survive in such an inhospitable area. The musk oxen are amazing and I was unaware they lived up there.
I stayed up very late to finish these 2-part documentaries... The ways it presented and dissected the situation and potential problems in the Arctic were excellent. Would love to see more of these materials of extreme significance. Thank you so much to the production team and field crew.
Great documentary. You explained a very complex situation well in your two videos. Thank you.
Thank you for this excellent documentary. Ive had the privilege as a researcher in aerial surveying to have been nearly everywhere this film has gone, yet I learned many things I did not know about those places. What fun it must have been... and adventure too.
The high production standards & quality content of DW documentaries is much appreciated. Thanks for sharing via KZhead 👍
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This is just a breathe taking documentary..kudos to the editorial team
A documentary at its excellences! Thank you!
"Propaganda at its excellences! Thank you!" Fixed it for you.
@@roberthicks1612 flat earther?
Amazing beauty, beautifully filmed, and the smiling Inouit even more beautiful ! Cudos to the courageous reporters! Thank you for the insight.
It's actually a good thing to reduce shipping traffic from the middle east and redirect that into northern Eurasia. This would help facilitate peaceful cooperation and economic development between Europe, Russia, and China.
This is an excellent two part documentary that looks at many different aspects of the Arctic region. I had vaguely heard that the Russians have been increasing their interest in this area but like many I thought ‘so what?’. Now at least because of this documentary I have a better idea about why it is important for the world to take a greater interest in the Arctic region. This fact is particularly true when considering the issues surrounding climate change. Thank you DW for putting these two videos together.
Just incredible. Thanks to all whom made this doco. 🙏🤜🤛
Thank you so very much for bring to light what is going on with the Arctic. I made sure to tell everyone I know to watch this film!
It is a brilliant documentary, the camera work is very good and well-narrated
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THAT was interesting !!! Thanks DW 🙂
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No documentary movies will achieve the brilliant piece of report that DW gave. I love it.
"No propaganda movies will achieve the brilliant piece of report that DW gave. I love it." Fixed it for you.
I’ve been looking forward to this. I didn’t expect it so soon. Good show 👍
Incredible images!!! And yes, the world must be worried. Thanks for sharing this formidable adventure with crucial information about what is happening up there that will no doubt affect us all.
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I nominate this documentary for an Academy Award. This is leading edge climate change research. Unfortunately few people understand the signing of the findings. Which reinforce the "theory". 8:08. Minky whale goulash, pieces of blubber and coarsely cut meat on the menu. 'Uh, where'd we stash those energy bars'. 9:15. Spectacular aurora borealis. 16:50. Doesn't anyone have a satellite phone? 25:04 Igor spends Christmas cutting up a reindeer in his bathtub ... As a city dweller he's a funeral director and a tourist guide. No fiction author would dare make up a character like that.
Man you are right. This was well done. happy there was two parts. What a sweet girl in the interviews too!
I recognize Time by Hans Zimmer from Inception. Fits perfectly with this awesome video. Thank you DW. You even talked about Canada.
sound like Ludovico Einaudi - Experience
I long for the days when the CBC did investigative journalism like this.
Yeah. They also used soundtracks from Interstellar and the soundtrack at the end of the video is the title soundtrack of "His Dark Materials"".
@@sluggo562 and NFB
@o k t o b e r He said “You even talked about Canada”. That sentence implies that he also talked about other countries.
Thank you DW and team visited there, brought such a amazing info for us. Thoughts provoking shots in videos, well reported.
Wow! Johannes Hano and all the DW team brilliant job. Thank you for bringing this amazing documentary to us.
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Parts 1 and 2 form a marvelous documentary. So very educational and informative. Well done!
Great documentary. Olena and her family were so at ease in such a harsh environment. That is proof of their mastery of the skills to live with the land and ocean.
I want to be a part of these expeditions. The world is indeed a beautiful place. Kudos to DW for this Documentary
Hats 👒 up sir for wonderful documentary amazing video graphics and heart touching music. Great work thanks DW.
Very nice Documentary. Loved how you used the golden compass tv show music theme
You guys produce some really good stuff. Thank you!
Background Music is fantastic. Complementing the scenario it actually elevated the Documentary.
Thank you so much for this documentaries. Excellent.
Living on Baffin Island it was awesome to see all the other areas around us in this 2 part doc.
Where do you live on Baffin?
Thanks so much for posting.
Happy October Birthday, Hope you keep the memory alive for many years.
A well explained documentary..thanks to the production team
Kudos to the entire team for such detailed and beautiful documentary.
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It's enthralling, fascinating and beyond words to see the pristine beauty of the Arctic.
Thanks so much for sharing, super wonderful camaras which can take such beautiful images of that freezing cold and wonderful area... blessings
thank-you for making this video, i didn't know so much was going on. keep up the good work!!
Waaoh, this is incredibly wonderful. Very informative ,insightful ,beautiful sceneries, great work and thank you very much for this.
They said the artic would be ice free in the 1950's. It wasn't. They said the artic would be ice free in the 1990's. It wasn't. They said the artic would be ice free in the 2000's. It wasn't. They said the artic would be ice free in the 2010's. It wasn't. They said the artic would be ice free by 2022. It wasn't. It is getting bigger and thicker now. So why should we think it is going to be gone in another decade?
They will get it right one day I guess lol.
@@KingNoTail yea, after the Antarctic plate moves away from the south pole, or the Himalayan mountains crumble to the sea.
"They said the artic would be ice free in the 1950's. It wasn't." That's an outrageous lie. The way you people make up facts is astonishing. Really robert. You have absolutely no shame. What a sad creature you are.
They are using the nuclear power to power directed microwave energy to act as a snow blow to keep a passage clear for the shipping route...
Another great documentary from DW. Making another documentary about the degrading infrastructure due to the permafrost thawing in the Arctic region would be interesting. This has been done, but this needs more exposure. Thawing permafrost is and will ruin structures, roads, pipelines, etc.
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A really great video with a lot of information, your two videos covered a lot of territory. Thank you and your team.
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That was as suspenseful as a well-made drama! Somehow the dangers of the natural world still leave us with a sense of awe even as they threaten, unlike the dangers brought by geo-politics which you know is senseless and would be more costly to the whole world.
Another excellent docu, thank you DW👍
Wahu l like this documentary from DW , l have learn more about the world and the arctic life ,congratulations, continue doing good work 👏 🙌
So informative and beautiful. I sat on the edge of my seat a couple times. Am very interested in the Arctic and what will happen about shipping routes and climate change. Thank uou
I LOVE ALL THE DW DOCUMENTARIES. You guys deserve oscar. Your most of the documentaries are better than many basic & mediocre hollywood movies.
Wow,,,, full of information and fascination, amazingly brilliant documentation 😳😳😳,, hats off,,, DW 🙌👏👍😍
the enormity of the geography and the incredible transitions of phase are really hard to put into words
yes, in North East Greenland : plan for the worst and hope for the best. And from experience the worst is always unexpected : we ended up seeking our gasoline barrels down the coastline for almost a km after the Nordendskjold Glacier calved [ Kaiser Frantz Joseph Fjord end glacier ] while we weren't at basecamp, and we were across the fjord at that time.], after that we had to be careful as water was mixed with it. ( and since it was also going to be used by another expedition in that area to ferry us back to where a Twin Otter could land the water had to be filtered out... luckily for me, I was the expedition logistic manager so I was busy making sure each box contained what it was suppposed to contain ( updating the content lists when needed ) and sorting stuff out while others dealt with the water gasoline issue. ) Edit : Now lets be honest, if you have the money ( it's not cheap ) and the opportunity, take it. It's something you will remember all your life. We were deep in the National Park which added more than a few caveats and paperwork, but around the Scoresby Sund area is out of the Park area and is awesome enough.
An exceptional film. Bravo!
Thank you for your videos.
Excellent work on parts 1 & 2 . I enjoyed the educational experience
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Absolutely Fascinating. Such an educational journey..
Extremely brilliant and educative documentary. Kudos to the creators
Thank You DW for the superb documentary and knowledgeable narration about the Artic, you are the master to reckon with.
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Ice Ages were modulated by ice-sheet albedo, not by CO2. CO2 is not the primary control knob - as I have demonstrated in my peer-review paper. In reality, the feedback agent modulating ice ages was actually ice-sheet dust-albedo. See: Modulation of Ice Ages via Dust and Albedo. The first problem with ice ages is: When CO2 concentrations were high the world cooled, and when CO2 was low the world warmed. This counter-intuitive temperature response strongly suggests that CO2 is not the primary feedback agent. The second problem with ice ages is: Ice ages are forced by increased Milankovitch insolation in the Northern Hemisphere (NH), but never by increased insolation in the Southern Hemisphere. If CO2 were the primary feedback agent interglacials could and would be forced by increased insolation in either hemisphere, but they are not. The fact that interglacials are only ever NH events, strongly suggests that surface albedo is the primary feedback agent (the great landmasses being in the NH), rather than CO2. The third problem with ice ages is: During an ice age, many NH Milankovitch maxima produce little or temperature response. Again, this would be unlikely if CO2 was the primary feedback agent, but it is to be expected if surface albedo was the primary feedback. High albedo ice sheets covered in fresh snow can and will reject the increased insolation from a NH Milankovitch maximum, resulting in little or no temperature response. Unless, of course, the ice sheets are somehow covered in dust, thus reducing their albedo. Fortuitously, the northern ice sheets do indeed get covered in dust just before each and every interglacial. This is the topic of my ice age modulation paper - the counter-intuitive method of dust production, and its function as the primary feedback agent controlling interglacial warming. The fourth problem with ice ages is: The CO2 is a very weak feedback agent indeed. During an interglacial warming era, the CO2 feedback requires warming from decade to decade, to feedback-force temperatures into the next (warmer) decade. Unfortunately the CO2 feedback is only 0.007 W/m2 per decade, which is less energy than a bee requires to fly. Conversely, reduced albedo ice sheets can absorb an extra 200 W/m2 every single annual year, when measured regionally. Clearly the albedo feedback is far stronger than the proposed CO2 feedback, and could indeed dissipate the vast northern ice sheets in about 6,000 years. All of the above points strongly suggest that ice sheet albedo is the primary feedback agent modulating interglacials, rather than CO2. …. Increased dust is caused by low CO2 concentrations, because CO2 is plant-food, and the most essential gas in the atmosphere. Thus low CO2 concentrations cause the death of all C3 vegetation at high altitude, causing CO2 deserts to form across the Gobi plateau. Dust from these CO2 deserts formed the huge dust deposits of the Loess Plateau, and also covered the northern ice sheets in dust - which lowered the albedo of the ice sheets and precipitated melting. See: Modulation of Ice Ages via Dust and Albedo. Ralph Ellis
This documentary is jawdropping
Magnificent, beautiful and educational.Thank you so much.
Really great documentary ❤❤
An astounding documentary. Thank you 🙏
Great documentary and thanks.
Thank you 😊 very very much it helps me figure out much more that fills the blanks well done 👍✊
A documentary that is need to see...as if i was there in Arctic. Amazing documentary..
simply outstanding...thank you.
An accomplished documentary, thanks DW, setting the standard.
Absolutely beautiful & mesmerising documentary with beautiful music bring played in the background.Hats off to the brave DW filming crew for enduring such extreme weather and hardships just to show us the mesmerising,breathtaking and pristine beauty of the Artic.Iam scared what global warming will do such untouched beauty.Once again thank you DW for blessing us with these excellent two-part documentaries regarding Artic.
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I really enjoyed that, I have been to the Arctic 5 times since I retired in Kingston Ontario. Last summer I got to Devon Island 900 km north of the Arctic Circle and north of Baffin Island and witnessed a mother polar bear and 2 cubs feeding on a small whale carcass. I have kayaked on both coasts of Greenland. Needless to say, it was really interesting for me. It is not an easy nor cheap place to visit.
Excellent documentaries
one of the best by DW
You guys are very courageous. Thank you for this awesome documentary
U guys killed it with the music in the background well done 👍
Amazing documentary
Beautifully made, interesting and worrisome as well. Thank you for a well made documentary.
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Both well-made docos - well done.
Great doco and scenery was magic
Thank you DW Team... This is one of the most unusual and impressive documentaries I have had the pleasure of seeing in my life... As I will never be able to travel to these places, this is the most realistic virtual experience U can ever have... Thank you again... 🙏😇🙏
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"The beauty of its nature." Thanks for this documentary.
Russia wants to control everything and everyone. They(not Putin but most of population) hate all civilized world.
Brilliant DW Documentary. Exceptional body of work detailing geopolitical and social economic dependency of the Arctic region. I'm particularly amazed at the sheer resilience of the Innuit people and the navigation skills. All the best to the young innuit lady's aspirations & pursuit of knowledge.
Awesome Score...👉 Hans Zimmer 🎶 🎯
I had no idea😊, thank you for a great documentary, fascinating
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Very well produced documentary!
Thank you. Interesting documentary & good use of "Inception music."
Fuggin amazing docu. DW might be one of the best news agencies on this planet as well
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Great job!
Great job
I was waiting for the 2nd part...
Me too.
These are one of the most wonderful and amazing documentary I ever watched. It seems like I am with them and travelling the amazing places of the North side of the earth.
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If the Arctic holds the future to mankind, this documentary needs a part 3 to update the public on what the various stake-holder governmental actions would be (as in the countries listed in this doc), when the Arctic is complete with the unthinkable 'blue ocean' event. It's a question worth asking by the public, as well as by USA and NATO.
Nice documentary .
I love that they used the music from the Golden Compass!
A very, very good report!
- Loved it. Very informative.
A very good documentary.