As we heat up the planet we call home, our rising oceans are getting deeper every day. With the oceans covering more than two-thirds of the Earth, this means we are literally reshaping the planet. We’ll take a look at how we know this and what it means. We’ll also discuss NASA’s mission Oceans Melting Greenland, or OMG for short, which flew airplanes for 6 years around the island to try and answer the question: How much are the oceans melting Greenland’s ice from below?

Josh Willis is a NASA climate scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he studies the rising oceans, and how Greenland ice loss is caused by warming of near deep water. He loves to communicate about climate science and use comedy to connect with people. While he dreams of a career in comedy, he has not yet quit his day job.

Links Mentioned:

• Check out NASA’s Sea Level Rise Projection Tool, which shows projected sea level rise for any location by decade and IPCC scenario.
• Get a taste of Josh’s comedic side: “This is the true story of how I failed to convince a room full of skeptics about climate change, and then invented an alter ego to tell the story.”
• The Climate Rock (full video)