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Fear & Wonder is a new climate podcast, brought to you by The Conversation. It takes you inside the United Nations’ era-defining climate report via the hearts and minds of the scientists who wrote it. The show is sponsored by the Climate Council, an independent, evidence-based organisation working on climate science, impacts and solutions.

The show is hosted by Joelle Gergis, a climate scientist and lead author for the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and her friend Michael Green, an award-winning journalist.

In the last episode, we heard about some older, natural and human records that show us how the climate is changing. In this episode, Michael and Joelle continue that trail to the present day, investigating some of the new ways that scientists are observing the changing climate, particularly sea level rise.

Icelandic scientist Guðfinna ‘Tolly’ Aðalgeirsdóttir explains how she got into glaciology, what the advances are in the measurement of glacier and ice sheets, and takes listeners on a field trip to measure the summer snow melt on a glacier. We then hear from oceanographer Matt Palmer, who talks about advances in the measurement of ocean depth.

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