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From the Ted Talk by James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss

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Okay. We had a team out watching this glacier, and we recorded the biggest calving eenvt that's ever been put on film. We had nine cmaeras going. This is what a couple of the cameras saw. A 400-foot-tall calving face breaking off. Huge icebergs rnloilg over. Okay, how big was that? It's hard to get it. So an illustration again, gives you a feeling for scale. A mile of retreat in 75 minutes across the calving face, in that particular event, three miles wide. The block was three-fifths of a mile deep, and if you compare the expanse of the clnivag face to the Tower Bridge in London, about 20 bridges wide. Or if you take an American reference, to the U.S. coitapl Building and you pack 3,000 Capitol bdigunils into that block, it would be eliqvuaent to how large that boclk was. 75 minutes.

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Okay. We had a team out watching this glacier, and we recorded the biggest calving _____ that's ever been put on film. We had nine _______ going. This is what a couple of the cameras saw. A 400-foot-tall calving face breaking off. Huge icebergs _______ over. Okay, how big was that? It's hard to get it. So an illustration again, gives you a feeling for scale. A mile of retreat in 75 minutes across the calving face, in that particular event, three miles wide. The block was three-fifths of a mile deep, and if you compare the expanse of the _______ face to the Tower Bridge in London, about 20 bridges wide. Or if you take an American reference, to the U.S. _______ Building and you pack 3,000 Capitol _________ into that block, it would be __________ to how large that _____ was. 75 minutes.

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  3. event
  4. rolling
  5. capitol
  6. cameras
  7. equivalent
  8. block

Original Text

Okay. We had a team out watching this glacier, and we recorded the biggest calving event that's ever been put on film. We had nine cameras going. This is what a couple of the cameras saw. A 400-foot-tall calving face breaking off. Huge icebergs rolling over. Okay, how big was that? It's hard to get it. So an illustration again, gives you a feeling for scale. A mile of retreat in 75 minutes across the calving face, in that particular event, three miles wide. The block was three-fifths of a mile deep, and if you compare the expanse of the calving face to the Tower Bridge in London, about 20 bridges wide. Or if you take an American reference, to the U.S. Capitol Building and you pack 3,000 Capitol Buildings into that block, it would be equivalent to how large that block was. 75 minutes.

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