Jeff Goodell had written several books on the environment before boarding a research ship for a trip with the scientists to study the effects of climate change at Thwaites Glacier on the western coast of Antarctica. Thwaites Glacier is sometimes called the Doomsday Glacier because of its vulnerability to changes (Goodell created that nickname in a Rolling Stone article he wrote for them.)
Jeff Goodell
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The Big Melt:
A Journey to Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier
Jeff Goodell 2016
Read by author 2h 58m
Rating; 9.0 (climate change)
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And Goodell put together an audiobook about the trip which was produced by Audible. (There is no text version.). This glacier melt will affect the entire earth to one extent of another. Water levels will rise.
So in this work Jeff Goodell takes the listener right inside a specially outfitted vessel on a voyage to a seriously remote location, “the foot of the staggeringly important Thwaites Glacier.” There are chapters regarding where they are, what’s going on, why it’s important, the daily manics of a research trip like this which took several months. There’s also fascinating information about the other passengers (scientists) and how they survive. I was left feeling quite satisfied, like I knew quite a lot more having experienced the book than I did prior and I’m interested in finding out where else this subject goes. (So I Googled a few things.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thwaites_Glacier
This is as of 10/2023, ABC news: and NBC news:
Also on the audio are recordings made by Carolyn Beeler’s public radio program The World, which provide listeners with an incredible sense of what Antarctica sounds like.
“The Big Melt” phenomenon has shattering, real consequences for all of us. This Audible Original is produced with Rolling Stone in conjunction with Columbia Journalism Review’s Covering Climate Change initiative.


