{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5e5bb446df501a0b22943a06/5e5bb49f13b6828a4aaadc93?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"On Thin Ice","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5e5bb446df501a0b22943a06/9000ad57a24f3a2d5cbde7f7d0b9b121.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>ENCORE  Water is essential for life – that we know.  But the honeycomb lattice that forms when you chill it to zero degrees Celsius is also inexorably intertwined with life.</p> <p>Ice is more than a repository for water that would otherwise raise sea levels.  It’s part of Earth’s cooling system, a barrier preventing decaying organic matter from releasing methane gas, and a vault entombing ancient bacteria and other microbes. </p> <p>From the Arctic to the Antarctic, global ice is disappearing.  Find out what’s at stake as atmospheric CO2 threatens frozen H2O. </p> <p>Guests:</p> <ul> <li><a href=\"http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/pw11/\">Peter Wadhams</a>- Emeritus Professor of Ocean Physics at Cambridge University in the U.K. and the author of <a href= \"https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0190691158/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=arweal-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0190691158&linkId=0709ac3239eee272cb0215a043e7e4a6\"><em>A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the Arctic</em></a></li> <li><a href= \"http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5467\">Eric Rignot</a>- Earth systems scientist, University of California, Irvine, senior research scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory</li> <li><a href= \"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85smund_Asdal\">Åsmund Asdal</a>- Biologist, Nordic Genetic Resource Center, coordinator for operations and management of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Svalbard, Norway</li> <li><a href= \"http://landresources.montana.edu/dept/faculty/priscu-j.html\"> John Priscu</a>- Polar biologist, Montana State University</li> </ul>","author_name":"Seth Shostak, Molly Bentley, SETI Institute"}