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Leaders and representatives from nearly 200 countries have been gathering in Egypt for COP 27. Many people feel COP 27 is the world's best hope for climate action, but many critics say it's just greenwashing with little to really actually show for it. In the meantime, there's a Doomsday Glacier, the size of Florida that's hanging on by its fingernails. When it breaks apart, sea levels are going to jump. The Doomsday Glacier is coming on Today Explained.

While the world’s leaders are meeting at COP27 to discuss climate change, Antarctica’s massive Thwaites Glacier is melting. The world’s coastlines face catastrophic consequences. Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell went to see it with his own eyes.

This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited by Matt Collette and Sean Rameswaram, who also hosted.

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