The puck of ice hockey is not spherical.

The one glacier up in Greenland that puts more ice into the global ocean than all the other glaciers in the northern hemisphere combined is the Ilulissat Glacier.

It's actually an ice moon.

Earth sciences and glaciology and global change

That's what we like, hockey sticks.

Glaciers are very important for the life on earth.

We set them off on this air hockey table.

In these images we see ice from enormous glaciers, ice sheets that are hundreds of thousands of years old breaking up into chunks, and chunk by chunk by chunk, iceberg by iceberg, turning into global sea level rise.

Iceland has participated actively in the preparatory work of GMA.

I'll get some asshole at a watering hole asking what brand the ice is.

If earth will go into the Glacial period,what will you prepare.

We're working in most of the major glaciated regions of the northern hemisphere.

It's called Tilta Ball. It's made with popsicle sticks.

One percent doesn't sound like a lot, but it would cause one hell of an ice age here.

Shrinking ice sheets make the planet darker, so it absorbs more sunlight and becomes warmer.

I play squash and ice hockey, two very fast sports, and I wouldn't give them up for the world.

Major processes of interaction between the atmosphere, oceans, ice and biota affect the entire global system through feedbacks, biogeochemical cycles, circulation patterns, transport of energy and pollutants, and changes in ice mass balance.

Sometimes hockey players get so competitive that fights break out.

So it's very much like the cycle on Earth except because it's so cold, it could not be water, you know, because water would have frozen.

If its ice sheet melted completely, sea levels would rise by seven meters meaning that we cannot afford to lose even a small fraction of the ice sheet. Meanwhile, satellite data show that Antarctica s ice sheet, which is ten times larger than Greenland s, is losing ice as well.

So, in the coldest place on Earth, they work inside a refrigerator.

And they are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the global public health crisis facing humanity in the twenty first century.

This is a depiction of all of the water on Earth in relation to the volume of the Earth all the ice, all the fresh water, all the sea water and all the atmosphere that we can breathe, in relation to the volume of the Earth.

We hit the last glacial maximum around 16,000 years ago, but basically, from 70,000 years on, things were getting really tough, getting very cold. The Northern Hemisphere had massive growing ice sheets.

And that's why we enjoy looking at glaciers and oceans, and contemplating the Earth from outside its perimeters, etc.

If you look in the middle background, you can see the calving face bobbing up and down like a yo yo.

Then 10,000 years ago, exploiting a sudden change in global climate with the end of the last ice age, humans learned to farm.

This is what our whole economy is thrusting upon us, particularly illustrated in that left hand corner hockey sticks.

Perhaps the best example of this type of sporting nationalism was not a football game, but the world ice hockey final in 1969, when Czechoslovakia beat the Soviet Union just one year after Soviet tanks rolled into Prague. The Czech players pointed their hockey sticks at the Russians like guns, and their victory provoked anti Soviet riots back home.

That is one of many recent dramatic signs that our climate is changing and that our planet is warmer than it has been for a very long time. But ice free arctic waters are more than a symptom of global warming.

Crossing miles and miles of sastrugi frozen ice snowdrifts that could be hip deep.

We are seeing geysers of ice which are coming out of that planet, which indicate that most likely there is an ocean, you know, below the surface.

The data is fundamental to our understanding of contemporary processes of global relevance such as ozone depletion, atmospheric pollution, climate change, the melting of ice shelves and glaciers and sea level rise.

Like Al Gore told you, two billion people live on the water from the glacier of Himalaya.

The B15 iceberg broke off the Ross Ice Shelf.

Unfortunately, Iceland's ideas about GMA, including, in particular, as regards its scope, and those of States that have ambitions for GMA well beyond what Iceland considers appropriate, have so far not been reconcilable.

The World Climate Research Programme has specifically included research on climate and cryosphere, the main purpose of which is to provide a globally integrated approach to the study of the role of the cryosphere in the climate system.

The deep ocean is also gaining heat at a smaller rate, and energy is going into the net melting of ice all around the planet.

But the second thing that's not shown on here the Earth has never had any ice on it when we've had 1,000 parts per million CO2.

Patrick Roy resigned as coach and vice president of the hockey operations of the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday, citing a lack of a voice within the team's decision making process.

Meanwhile, global temperatures in recent months have been at their highest levels in records that go back 130 years. Arctic sea ice cover reached its lowest recorded average level for the month of June ever.

And what they have to do is they have to assemble the entire balloon the fabric, parachute and everything on the ice and then fill it up with helium.

The latest IPCC report describes our current predicament with disturbing clarity global temperatures are climbing, mountain glaciers and polar ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, and extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and more severe.

And the rate at which the Arctic Sea ice is going away is a lot quicker than models.

Sexually unattractive people leave us cold.