Climate change in an ice lab

1-channel video
8:30 min

3 screens with interviews with:
Chantal Zeppenfeld, Climate researcher, PhD student;
Thomas Stocker, Professor emeritus, Former Head of Climate and Environmental Physics Division of the Physics Institute;
Prof. Hubertus Fischer, Head oft he Climate and Environmental Physics Division of the Physics Institute.
4-6 min each

Courtesy ALPS Swiss Alpine Museum, Bern

Greenland ice is studied at the Division of Climate and Environmental Physics, part of the University of Bern’s Physics Institute. The ice samples come from drill cores taken by international teams from the ice sheet over many years. The oldest ice is over 120 000 years old. This makes Greenland the most important climate archive on Earth alongside the Antarctic – a hotspot for international climate research. The ice samples provide insights into the climate of the past and a glimpse of the climate crisis today and in the future. How politics and society react to these findings is another challenge.