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VICE Preview: “Our Rising Oceans” 

Photo Credit: HBO/Jake Burghart and Jerry Ricciotti
Photo Credit: HBO/Jake Burghart and Jerry Ricciotti

The oceans are rising. With human use of hydrocarbons skyrocketing, waters around the globe are getting hotter, and now this warm sub-surface water is washing into Antarctica’s massive western glaciers, causing them to retreat and break off. Antarctica holds 90% of the world’s ice and 70% of its freshwater, so if even a small fraction of the ice sheet in Antarctica melts, the resulting sea level rise will completely remap the world as we know it – and it is already happening. In the last decade, some of the most significant glaciers here have tripled their melt rate.

Photo Credit: HBO/Jake Burghart and Jerry Ricciotti
Photo Credit: HBO/Jake Burghart and Jerry Ricciotti
Photo Credit: HBO/Jake Burghart and Jerry Ricciotti
Photo Credit: HBO/Jake Burghart and Jerry Ricciotti

We are experiencing a climate crisis, but there are a lot of people and corporations who deny this fact, even in the face of overwhelming evidence. In “Our Rising Oceans,” VICE founder Shane Smith travels to the bottom of the world to investigate the instability of the West Antarctic ice sheet and see firsthand how the continent is melting. VICE also follows the rising oceans to Bangladesh for a glimpse into the world’s underwater future. From the UN Climate conference to the People’s Climate March to the forces that deny the science of global climate change, this special extended report covers all sides of the issue and all corners of the globe, ending in a special interview with Vice President Joe Biden.

Season 3 of VICE premieres Friday, March 6th at 11/10c on HBO.

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