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2018
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Top of the World
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Is the world
going mad when Greenlanders fight drought and brushfires and catch warm water
fish? A decade after discovering a farming boom in Greenland, the ABC’s Eric
Campbell returns to see how locals are facing up to climate change. |
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When Greenland scientist Teunis Jansen cuts open the stinking guts of a Bluefin tuna, he unlocks a secret to the world’s climate. |
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“Climate change takes many surprising ways,” he observes, as he delves into the big fish’s belly. |
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The tuna is full of whole mackerel, a warm water fish that is suddenly abundant in Greenland’s waters, in turn attracting more tuna as well. So abundant that it now accounts for up to a quarter of the island’s exports. |
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For Greenlanders, this is a happy quirk of the warming that is gripping their formidable land. While the rest of the world fights to stop a two-degree temperature rise, it’s already a fact in much of Greenland. |
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Ten years ago Eric Campbell met farmers there excited by the prospect of longer growing seasons. Now he returns to find some doing well - but battling a scourge familiar to Australian farmers. |
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“They’ve had a lot of droughts… It’s become more or less the new normal,” agronomist Kenneth Hoegh tells Campbell. |
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Inuit photographer Adam Lyberth grieves for his land as he records its ancient glaciers crumbling, its vast ice cap melting like never before. Sandy desert sits alongside melting ice. Tundra fires, says Lyberth, are spooking reindeer and making them harder to hunt. |
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“It hurts the heart,” he tells Campbell as they drive out to the ice sheet that holds eight per cent of the world’s fresh water. |
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Greenland’s melting season starts earlier and finishes later than it used to. So the speed of the melt has doubled, adding to sea levels. |
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“If you were to melt the whole Greenland ice sheet here, we’re talking about seven metres’ sea level rise,” says local climate scientist Thomas Juul-Pedersen. |
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Some Greenlanders would rather see an upside to climate change. In Greenland’s only inland town Kangerlussuaq, Campbell meets 13-year-old Athena. She laments the cold and boring Arctic winters. |
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“it would be nicer to be warmer. Yeah, I could use some of that,” she says. |
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Drone
shots over ice. GFX: |
Music |
00:00 |
GVs
Greenland scenery |
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00:03 |
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ERIC CAMPBELL: It’s the world’s biggest island and potentially its
biggest problem. |
00:10 |
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THOMAS JUUL-PEDERSEN: “If you were to melt the whole Greenland ice
sheet here, we’re talking |
00:15 |
Thomas
100% |
about around seven metres sea level rise”. |
00:17 |
GVs
Greenland town |
ERIC CAMPBELL: Global warming isn’t a theory here, it’s life. KENNETH HOEGH: “This is ground zero |
00:21 |
Kenneth
and Campbell on boat at glacier |
for climate change, yeah”. |
00:26 |
Glacier |
Music |
00:27 |
Faces |
ERIC CAMPBELL: We’re on a journey through an ancient land giving a
glimpse of our future. Some fear the change, and some can’t wait. |
000:33 |
Athena |
ATHENA: “It would be nicer to be warmer. Yeah, I could use some
of that”. |
00:43 |
Aerials
over glacier |
Music |
00:50 |
Campbell
on boat at glacier. GFX: |
ERIC CAMPBELL: “Now it might seem strange in a place like this to be
talking about global warming and climate change when there’s still so much
ice and so much snow and it’s still so cold, but here’s the thing, a rise in
temperature of just one degree can literally mean the difference between ice
and water”. |
00:54 |
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Music |
01:14 |
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ERIC CAMPBELL: And in Greenland, the melting ice and warming water are
creating winners as well as losers. |
01:21 |
Crops
on farm |
Ten years ago, we saw how farmers were cashing in on warmer seasons. |
01:28 |
Teunis
weighs fish in lab |
Today, there’s a surprising new boom on the top of the world. TEUNIS JANSEN: “Four hundred and seventy grams. Climate change
takes many surprising ways I guess”. |
01:35 |
Glacier |
Music |
01:46 |
GFX:
ON TOP OF THE WORLD |
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01:55 |
Adam
playing drum |
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02:07 |
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ERIC CAMPBELL: Adam Lyberth loves his island home, |
02:12 |
Glacier |
from the glaciers and ice sheet that cover most of Greenland, |
02:16 |
Northern
Lights |
to the Northern Lights that appear each autumn as if by magic. |
02:22 |
Adam
on glacier/Wildlife |
He reveres his Inuit heritage and the wonder of Arctic wildlife – from
reindeer to musk ox. |
02:28 |
Adam
with drum |
But lately his Inuit heart has been breaking like the glaciers. |
02:35 |
Glaciers |
Music |
02:42 |
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ADAM LYBERTH: [subtitle] “When you are surrounded by such amazing
nature |
02:45 |
Adam
100% |
you especially notice how the ice and ice sheet are changing and it’s
becoming darker and melting rapidly”. |
02:52 |
Glacial
scenery |
Music |
03:06 |
Kangerlussuaq GVs |
ERIC CAMPBELL: Adam lives in Kangerlussuaq, a town of 500 people just
inside the Arctic circle. In World War II the Americans built an
airbase here. It slowly turned this hunting ground into |
03:17 |
Airport |
Greenland’s international hub. Most visitors just pass through
here on the way to the main tourist destinations, but for |
03:34 |
Adam
driving |
Adam it’s the best place to see
what’s coming for the planet. |
03:44 |
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Music |
03:48 |
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ADAM LYBERTH: [subtitle] “I have easy access to three big
glaciers. It’s very easy to see the change, the climatic change, even
the landscape, the vegetation”. |
03:53 |
Glacial
scenery |
Music |
04:04 |
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ERIC CAMPBELL: This is the only place you can drive to the massive ice
cap that covers more than three quarters of Greenland. Adam has spent
decades taking people out to see it. [driving in car] “So you’ve had a fairly |
04:09 |
Campbell
in car with Adam |
unique view of all this, haven’t you?” |
04:25 |
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ADAM LYBERTH: [subtitle] “More than 300 days a year, going up there”. ERIC CAMPBELL: “So you’ve been there thousands of time over
thirty-five years”. ADAM LYBERTH: “Yeah”. |
04:28 |
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ERIC CAMPBELL: “That’s quite a good look at how it’s changed then”. ADAM LYBERTH: “Yeah”. |
04:37 |
Aerials
of landscape |
ERIC CAMPBELL: Since his childhood in the 1950s, the average
temperature has risen 1.5 degrees. That’s turning the land bone dry.
It’s a sandy desert alongside melting ice. |
04:44 |
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ADAM LYBERTH: [subtitle] “We can see the change, the climatic
change. Like last year we have no rain in the summer. |
05:02 |
Adam
driving |
If you look here to the right side, you can see the lake sinking”. ERIC CAMPBELL: “Yeah and you’ve had some bushfires too”. |
05:07 |
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ADAM LYBERTH: [subtitle] “Yeah. This is very unusual. Some
hunters say it’s difficult to find reindeer in this area because of the heavy
smell of bushfire. |
05:13 |
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It’s a very strong smell. I know the reindeer and the wildlife doesn’t
like it”. |
05:25 |
Russell Glacier, |
Music |
05:29 |
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ERIC CAMPBELL: Twenty-five kilometres from town is our first stop,
Russell Glacier, one of nearly 100 big glaciers that flow down from the ice
sheet. |
05:33 |
Adam
with Campbell at glacier |
ADAM LYBERTH: [subtitle] “Seven years ago, where we’re standing here
we could not see the mountain behind us. The glacier was closer and
maybe taller. Between 2012 and 15, the glacier behind us lost 30 per
cent. So we can see how fast the change is here”. |
05:45 |
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ERIC CAMPBELL: “Does it make you sad when you see the changes like
this?” ADAM LYBERTH: “Yes, even for me”. |
06:04 |
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ERIC CAMPBELL: Adam hasn’t just witnessed the changes with his eyes,
for 35 years he’s been documenting them through his lens. Building up a
rare and comprehensive record. |
06:08 |
Ice
falling from glacier face |
Music |
06:25 |
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ERIC CAMPBELL: In a time of balance, this calving, when huge chunks
fall from the glacier face, |
06:52 |
Aerials.
Glacier |
should be offset by ice moving down from the sheet behind it, but for
decades now he’s seen a system out of kilter. The ice is disappearing
and the land is changing. |
06:56 |
Glacial
scenery |
Music |
07:10 |
Adam
driving with Campbell |
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07:19 |
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ADAM LYBERTH: [subtitle] “Now it’s autumn, the bush growing earlier,
and now it’s very growing bigger. When we change a little bit of the
temperature, we have a big effect here in the Arctic”. |
07:27 |
Driving
to ice cap |
Music |
07:40 |
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ERIC CAMPBELL: The main change is on the ice sheet, better known as
the ice cap. It’s so vast that nobody lives in Greenland
interior. In 1999 the road to Russell Glacier was extended to the ice
cap’s edge. At 38 kilometres, this is Greenland’s longest road. |
07:45 |
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ADAM LYBERTH: “This is end of the road”. ERIC CAMPBELL: “The end of the road. |
08:11 |
Campbell
and Adam out of car |
It’s a bit chillier up here”. ADAM LYBERTH: “Yeah”. ERIC CAMPBELL: The walk from the car park to the ice cap is getting
ever longer. |
08:15 |
Walking
to ice cap |
Music |
08:22 |
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ERIC CAMPBELL: “This area’s gone down in the last few years?” ADAM LYBERTH: [subtitle] “Yeah, you can see that the big ice is going
deeper and deeper. After I think 12 years the area sunk nearly 180 metres
lower”. |
08:28 |
Ice
cap |
ERIC CAMPBELL: The ice cap is a holdover from the last ice age.
Elsewhere in Europe and North America, giant glaciers like this melted 10,000
years ago. Here Arctic temperatures preserved it. What melted in
summer was replenished by winter snow. |
08:48 |
Walking
on ice cap |
ADAM LYBERTH: [subtitle] “This is ice under”. ERIC CAMPBELL: “So we’re on the ice sheet now”. ADAM LYBERTH: “Yeah”. ERIC CAMPBELL: “Okay, freshly covered with snow”. ADAM LYBERTH: [subtitle] “The first snow this year”. ERIC CAMPBELL: “Since summer? Okay”. |
09:07 |
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ADAM LYBERTH: “Yeah”. ERIC CAMPBELL: “So the melting season is over? For now”. ADAM LYBERTH: “Yeah, for now”. ERIC CAMPBELL: The problem now is that the ice cap is shrinking. |
09:18 |
Glacial
melt |
Every year is different, but
most years it’s losing more ice in the warm months than it gains in the
colder months. The reason that’s a big problem is that the cap is so
incredibly big. |
09:28 |
Campbell
and Adam on ice cap |
We’re standing on 8 per cent of the entire world’s freshwater. ADAM LYBERTH: [subtitle] “From here is the longest part, from north to
south is 2,700 kilometres long ice sheet and the widest part is 1,500
kilometres wide, 3.5 kilometres thick ice”. |
09:44 |
Sunrise/Plane
trip |
Music |
10:04 |
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ERIC CAMPBELL: The only way to try to grasp its size is to see it from
the air. |
10:13 |
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Music |
10:17 |
Campbell
in plane |
ERIC CAMPBELL: As soon as you
rise over Kangerlussuaq, you see giant crevasses and massive rivers of
meltwater. The cap is so vast it will never melt entirely, but it’s big
enough that even small changes on the surface can push up sea levels around
the world. And since 2004, the melt has been accelerating fast.
The US space agency NASA estimates it’s been losing 30 billion tonnes more
every year. |
10:37 |
Thomas |
Thomas Juul-Pedersen is a senior scientist at the Greenland Climate
Research Centre. THOMAS JUUL-PEDERSEN: “The ice sheet has always been melting, |
11:17 |
Thomas
100% |
there’s always been a melting season, but that melting season seems to
dramatically increase. So it starts melting earlier, and the melt
continues for full into the autumn every year. |
11:24 |
Glacial
melt |
And last year there was a very high melt season for instance and it
started very early. It is telling us that climate change is real.
There’s no doubt about that”. |
11:38 |
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ERIC CAMPBELL: Climate change sceptics do cast doubt, pointing out
that the cap grew slightly this season thanks to record snowfall. |
11:48 |
File
footage. Hurricanes |
But that was caused by record hurricanes. A series of
superstorms in the Caribbean sent record precipitation all the way to the Arctic. |
12:00 |
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THOMAS JUUL-PEDERSEN: “It’s the same trend you see not only in
Greenland, but in many places around the world where |
12:12 |
Thomas |
more numerous hurricanes, larger hurricanes, droughts, floodings – all
these things – it’s all signs of a changing climate. |
12:17 |
Ice
sheet |
The ice sheet is comprised of old snow, so when new snow or more snow
on it will of course increase the mass of the ice sheet, but if that is
followed by increased melting as well in the following years, then it will go
away as well”. |
12:27 |
Kangerlussuaq high school students |
[singing] |
12:43 |
Teacher
in class |
ERIC CAMPBELL: At Kangerlussuaq’s only high school, the kids learn
they’re growing up in a very different world. That doesn’t mean they’re
worried. |
12:58 |
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TEACHER: [subtitle] “Kangerlussuaq is 200 metres above sea level so we
won’t get flooded”. |
13:11 |
Athena
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ATHENA: “My name is Athena and I am 13 years old. I like it very
much here. There’s a lot of nature and stuff. |
13:20 |
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In the summer I go rowing and kayaking or whatever and me and my
friends we go out camping and stuff. My dad, he’s a hunter, so he got
all these hunters going hunting and stuff”. ERIC CAMPBELL: “What about in winter, what’s winter like?” ATHENA: “Winter is pretty boring”. |
13:31 |
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ERIC CAMPBELL: “So are you worried about rising temperatures or do you
think it might be nice to be warmer?” |
13:57 |
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ATHENA: “It would be nicer to be warmer. Yeah. I could use
some of that”. |
14:02 |
Kangerlussuaq kids |
ERIC CAMPBELL: And that’s the irony here. The place most
affected by climate change is perhaps the least concerned by it. |
14:10 |
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SCHOOL KIDS: [subtitle] “Kangerlussuaq!” |
14:21 |
Campbell
on to ferry |
ERIC CAMPBELL: Most people welcome the extra warmth, nowhere more so
than in Greenland’s farming heartland. |
14:25 |
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Music |
14:32 |
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ERIC CAMPBELL: This is the
start of a giant fjord through Kujalleq in the far south where Vikings
settled a thousand years ago. Today, thousands still live in isolated
hamlets connected only by boat. |
14:38 |
Campbell
to camera |
[on boat] “The last time I was in this part of Greenland 10 years ago,
farmers were getting pretty excited about global warming because rising
temperatures meant they could grow a lot more crops and animals. So,
we’re coming back to see how they’ve faired and if this is still a part of
the planet where people are benefiting from climate change”. |
14:53 |
Ferry
to farming hamlet |
Music |
15:14 |
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ERIC CAMPBELL: It’s early
autumn now and doesn’t feel that warm. |
15:49 |
Campbell
walking down wharf |
You can have four seasons a day, most of them cold. |
15:54 |
Campbell
greets Kenneth |
“Kenneth, hey mate, how are you?” KENNETH HOEGH: “Well I’m good”. ERIC CAMPBELL: “You haven’t changed in ten years”. KENNETH HOEGH: “You as well”. ERIC CAMPBELL: “Oh you’re a liar”. |
15:57 |
Kenneth
and Campbell in snow |
Our guide through the fjord will be Kenneth Hoegh, a former
agricultural consultant who’s just been named Deputy Foreign Minister. KENNETH HOEGH: “This is Greenland sun. The sun is up there…
somewhere”. ERIC CAMPBELL: “So let’s have a look around”. KENNETH HOEGH: “Yeah, please, please come around. Take care,
it’s slippery”. |
16:04 |
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Music |
16:21 |
Excerpt
from earlier story. GFX: |
ERIC CAMPBELL: A decade ago, in blazing summer sunshine, Kenneth took
us down this same fjord to see a farming revolution. Rising
temperatures since the mid-‘90s had extended the growing season by three
weeks. |
16:27 |
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KENNETH HOEGH: “Now they are willing to grow turnips and potatoes
commercially, and it used to be only for the farm and now they are willing to
invest a lot of money to grow them commercially on a larger scale”. |
16:44 |
Farmer
Egede carries turnips |
ERIC CAMPBELL: Farmers like Ferdinand Egede were rapidly expanding
their flocks and planting more fields. The only downside was that
summer had been unusually dry. |
16:59 |
Hoegh
and Egede |
KENNETH HOEGH: [subtitle] “On the way out here I was thinking that you
should have a permanent irrigation system. |
17:10 |
Glacier |
ERIC CAMPBELL: But farmer Egede was sceptical that the warming was
here to stay. FARMER EGEDE: [subtitle] “I really don’t believe that pollution is to
blame for Greenland getting warmer. |
17:18 |
Egede |
The eighties were very cold, while the nineties were a bit better –
and now it’s also good. That’s the way it is”. |
17:31 |
Kenneth
and Campbell returning to Egede’s farm |
Music |
17:41 |
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ERIC CAMPBELL: As we retrace our trip to Ferdinand Egede’s farm,
Kenneth tells me life has become harder for Greenland’s farmers. KENNETH HOEGH: “They’ve had a lot of drought in the months of May and
June |
17:46 |
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that has become more or less the new normal. I think the climate
has become much more fluctuating, actually more fluctuating |
17:57 |
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than I would have expected 10 years ago, so yeah”. ERIC CAMPBELL: “That’s difficult for farmers, isn’t it?” KENNETH HOEGH: “It’s always difficult, because you have to adapt all
the time and if you have to use a lot of money on one approach and then
suddenly the whole regime changes and then you have to do something else, that makes it a challenge”. |
18:12 |
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ERIC CAMPBELL: “It’s never easy being a farmer is it?” KENNETH HOEGH: “It’s never easy to be a farmer, exactly. You’re
never satisfied”. |
18:35 |
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Music |
18:42 |
Aerial.
Farmland |
ERIC CAMPBELL: The farm doesn’t get many visitors. It’s iced in
every winter and supplies are limited. |
18:48 |
Egede |
Ferdinand Egede can go months only seeing his two dogs, two sons, his
wife, brother and sister-in-law and their 400 sheep. |
18:56 |
Egede
on farm |
Music |
19:06 |
Campbell
greets Egede |
ERIC CAMPBELL: He has no
problem with isolation. The problem these days he tells us, is the weird
weather. This winter the snow melted early, then froze. |
19:18 |
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FERDINAND EGEDE: [in translation by Kenneth Hoegh] “Instead of being
protective snow cover it becomes a killing layer of ice”. |
19:30 |
Aerial.
Farm |
ERIC CAMPBELL: Summers have been unusually dry, with unusually late
rain. KENNETH HOEGH: “We’ve had a prolonged drought and until |
19:40 |
Kenneth |
it became totally dry, you know everything got dry and then night
before we were supposed to make the hay making, then it started to
rain. And that’s been quite problematic”. |
19:50 |
Sheep |
ERIC CAMPBELL: Ferdinand’s starting to think there might just be
something in this talk of climate change. “Well you certainly have the most beautiful location for a farm I’ve
ever seen”. |
20:00 |
Egede |
FERDINAND EGEDE: [subtitle] “I’m happy you say this is a marvellous
place but we’re also having our troubles with the droughts and prolonged
insect attacks. So we also have our problems”. |
20:11 |
Aerials.
Farm/return to town on ferry |
Music |
20:30 |
Icebergs/Campbell
on ferry |
ERIC CAMPBELL: We head back to town, fearful of being caught by
ice. Greenland has a long history of calving giant bergs. One of
them is believed to have sunk the Titanic in 1912. But the warmer
weather appears to be making this worse too. KENNETH HOEGH: “I believe there is more, there is more ice. |
20:48 |
Kenneth
on ferry |
Suddenly in summer sometimes we get enormous amounts and that just
blocks the fjord. We’re a little bit lucky today that we went through”. ERIC CAMPBELL: “Yes, so this is actually a good day for ice”. KENNETH HOEGH: “Oh yeah, this is a very good day, no problem
whatsoever”. |
21:17 |
Kenneth
and Campbell on boat |
ERIC CAMPBELL: There’s one more thing Kenneth wants to show us.
Ahead of us, in Prince William Sound, is the southern tip of the ice cap. |
21:32 |
Kenneth |
KENNETH HOEGH: “Well, where we are right now is probably where the ice
cap |
21:41 |
Boat
at edge of ice cap |
was a hundred years ago, before the real retreat started. They
say it started around 1880”. ERIC CAMPBELL: “And it’s all the way back there now”. KENNETH HOEGH: “It’s all these three kilometres, way back there. |
21:46 |
Ice
cap/ Walking to ice cave |
Music |
21:59 |
Kenneth
and Campbell under ice in cave |
KENNETH HOEGH: This is a new
part of Greenland and now you’re inside Greenland. Just look at that
piece of rock standing there”. ERIC CAMPBELL: “Wow”. |
22:11 |
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KENNETH HOEGH: “We’re under the ice sheet. So this is… you see
this at the edges, you know small ice caves being formed”. |
22:18 |
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ERIC CAMPBELL: So how long has this been encased in ice?” KENNETH HOEGH: “Probably at least six thousand years, probably, yeah…
maybe longer”. ERIC CAMPBELL: “So it’s happening faster than you’re used to, |
22:26 |
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even you in your lifetime”. KENNETH HOEGH: “Oh yes, but still we have to take care, it’s all being
held by a few columns of ice and the rock here, the big rock”. |
22:40 |
Campbell
and Kenneth under ice |
ERIC CAMPBELL: “And we still have several tonnes of ice on top of us”. KENNETH HOEGH: “Oh yeah, oh yeah so if you, if something starts to
crack… we move out, yeah?” ERIC CAMPBELL: “Don’t make any sudden movements”. |
22:50 |
Blue
ice cave |
KENNETH HOEGH: “You know what the blue ice is?” ERIC CAMPBELL: “What’s that?” KENNETH HOEGH: “That’s actually snow that has melted and then
refrozen. That’s what creates the blue ice, |
22:59 |
Kenneth
and Campbell under blue ice ledge |
and in a few years, you’ll look at no longer the blue ice, but
actually the blue sky”. ERIC CAMPBELL: “Wow”. |
23:08 |
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Music |
23:14 |
Fishing
boats |
ERIC CAMPBELL: The big melt may not have been the boon for farmers
that many hoped for, but one group is celebrating. Ninety per cent of
Greenland’s export income comes from fishing. Out of 56,000 people,
some 2,000 work on small fishing boats. Hundreds more work for the big
fleets and fish processing factories. |
23:28 |
Andrias on boat |
Andrias Olsen is a fleet manager at the State company, Royal
Greenland. |
23:53 |
Andrias
interview |
ANDRIAS OLSEN: “Generally we see higher stocks due to climate change,
or at least due to warmer sea temperatures. But also due to the ice cap
melting and when the ice cap melts, a lot of nutritious water comes down the
big fjord system which creates optimal conditions for fishery”. ERIC CAMPBELL: “So with all the bad things happening from climate
change, you may be among the winners”. |
24:01 |
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ANDRIAS OLSEN: “Yeah at least it looks like that, yeah”. |
24:26 |
Teunis
weighing fish in lab |
TEUNIS JANSEN: “470 grams”. ERIC CAMPBELL: The most remarkable change has been the appearance of
mackerel, a warm water fish rarely found in less than 8 degrees. |
24:31 |
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Its mass migration so far north has left scientists stunned. |
24:44 |
Teunis
interview |
TEUNIS JANSEN: “Nobody had really expected it, but it has come quite
fast”. |
24:50 |
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ERIC CAMPBELL: Teunis Jansen studies schooling fish at the Institute
of Natural Resources. He’s found himself in the middle of a maritime
gold rush. |
24:55 |
Teunis
cutting mackerel in lab |
TEUNIS JANSEN: “So in 2011 the first mackerel was caught in
Greenland. Within a few years, already in 2014, there was 85,000 tonnes
landed by the fleet. |
25:06 |
Teunis
interview |
And that’s quite a lot. It corresponds to about 20-24% of the
national export of Greenland in that particular year”. |
25:18 |
Fishermen |
ERIC CAMPBELL: That’s created a whole new industry and another looks
likely to follow. |
25:26 |
Teunis
cutting bag containing tuna |
TEUNIS JANSEN: “In the last couple of years basically at the same time
as the mackerel has arrived, Bluefin tunas have also entered Greenlandic
waters and they come in as a by-catch while they’re trawling for
mackerel. |
25:33 |
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As you see here, and as you’re about to smell very soon… they are
feeding on mackerel. So this a semi-digested mackerel. Yeah
climate change takes many surprising ways I guess”. |
25:53 |
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Music |
26:15 |
Children
in Nuuk |
ERIC CAMPBELL: Greenland has come to see climate change as both
a problem and an opportunity. Each generation has had to learn to
survive on scarce resources in a harsh climate and for centuries they’ve
adapted to change. |
26:18 |
Campbell
walks with Adam |
Music |
26:36 |
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ERIC CAMPBELL: Adam Lyberth’s ancestors moved down from the high
Arctic, where they lived off seals and narwhal whales, to the south where
they learned to fish and farm. But he finds it hard to share the joy of a
warming climate. |
26:45 |
Adam
and Campbell by lake |
On our last day in Kangerlussuaq, he took me to what used to be a deep
lake alongside Russell Glacier. It’s almost empty. |
27:00 |
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“So just over there it used to be as high as the glacier, now it’s all
drained away because the glacier collapsed, and when did this happen?” |
27:11 |
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ADAM LYBERTH: [subtitle] “Last year in September. This is part
of the accelerating of climate change, many things like that happening. So
this is part of a former lake. |
27:19 |
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One less lake like that”. ERIC CAMPBELL: “And that’s happening all over?” ADAM LYBERTH: “Yeah”. ERIC CAMPBELL: “Wow. It’s frightening”. ADAM LYBERTH: “Yeah”. |
27:31 |
Aerial
over lake/Adam walking on cap |
Music |
27:38 |
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ADAM LYBERTH: [subtitle] “The
ice melting touches my heart. |
27:56 |
Adam |
It’s a fact that the ice sheet is melting and the landscape is
changing. Look around, it’s happening very fast”. |
28:01 |
Adam
walking on cap |
Music |
28:19 |
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Reporter - Eric Campbell abc.net.au/foreign |
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Out
point after credits |
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29:10 |