A really interesting and as far as I can tell, well researched book about a topic most people don’t know much about but should. This is a book everyone should read.

I'm glad I now know the information that was in this audiobook, although I found it to be a bit of a difficult read at times. Some parts felt very scientific, but in one place Bierman described what a petri dish is instead of assuming his readers took basic science. And it took a while to get to the potential effects of climate change which was what I was there for in the first place.

When it got there though, the predictions were sobering, and the research described was quite interesting. I think anyone interested in reading this book already knows that global warming is a problem and that one of the biggest issues is melting ice in the arctic, but through this book I know a bit of WHY that's a problem and just what the world could like if things continue on their current course.

Genuinely written. It's a confusing topic to say the least but Bierman has written a very detailed, yet understandable narrative. One of the most devastating impacts of climate change is definitely our melting polar regions, but this book highlights all the unknown impacts of loosing the world#s ice. Hint - the effects are immense! Worth a read.

Well-narrated and intensely researched, WHEN THE ICE MELTS presents a startling and scary consequence of Climate Change. Scientific in nature, it is nonetheless written with an eye to enlightening laypersons to these consequences. Eye-opening and inspiring, WHEN THE ICE MELTS needs to be widely read and considered.

The author of this book takes readers on a fascinating scientific adventure to the Far North. He blends his own recollections of his research with interesting facts about Greenland and the latest discoveries about ice and the climate crisis. I liked it a lot, although I think I would like it even more as a regular book - the narrator did a decent job here, but sometimes his voice sounded a bit too generic.

Thanks to the publisher, HighBridge Audio, and NetGalley for an advanced copy of this audiobook.

This book is filled to the brim with such useful information about Ice, I know that sounds weird but it actually is so important to learn and understand this topic as it is something we will no doubt have to deal with within our lifetime.

This book follows the history of the Greenland Ice Sheet, most people think Greenland is really green and Iceland has all the ice, but ironically enough, it is the opposite!

Greenland has had an enormous Ice Sheet for centuries but it wasn’t until the late 1900s that we started the process of learning more about the ice and what we may find hidden in it. It also touches on how important the information Scientists gained from our experiments with the Ice, taken from the bottom of the Greenland ice sheet, and what it may mean for our future.

Climate Change is still happening and some people choose to remain ignorant to the issue, thinking that it will be the next generations problem, but things are heating up faster than Scientists expected and Climate Change and the storms that come with it make this a chilling reality (Pun intended). As someone who was living in Texas in 2021, and had navigate the Texas Snowpocolypse, we are not adequately prepared for what the future has in store for us, hopefully people will come to their senses sooner rather than later and we can work together to try to reach a solution.

This book was well researched, and very easy to follow, sometimes non-fiction books have a hard time keeping my attention, so the fact that I was able to enjoy this book in audiobook form was fantastic. I really enjoyed the narrator, he did an excellent job!

Thank you to the Author Paul Bierman for your very important research and for sharing it with us, and to the Narrator David Marantz for your work in this project as well!

Big Thank you as well to RBMedia and NetGalley for my Audiobook copy of “When the Ice is Gone”.

I received this advance review copy at no personal cost and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Thanks for the listen! Round up to 3.5 stars.
This book began with a very interesting introduction that presented a scientific discovery and a bit of a mystery. I was hooked right away and I liked that the discovery was presented almost like we were a part of Bierman's class, but as I listened on I felt there was a disconnect in the information that was being presented. For about 80% of the book, we learn solely about the Greenland ice sheet and its history, including scientific and military involvement, and then for the last 20% of the book, we learn about climate change and are presented with a scientific look at what the future holds (I'm getting Kevin Costner / Waterworld flashbacks), but it didn't cohesively flow with the first 80% so that at any point, someone listening could effectively be listening to two different books. The first part of the book was a bit dry and I think that could have been mitigated by tying the history of the Greenland ice sheet with today's climate change instead of leaving the latter for a standalone topic at the end, to give the overall book more of a literary non-fiction feel that would have tied in with the writing style of the introduction. That said, I ended this listening with valuable takeaways and learned a lot. One thing that I did also find with this book is that it contained an element of hope and adaptability for the planet which I appreciated amongst all of the scientific facts.
The narrative itself was enjoyable at a 1.5 to 1.75 speed, and the reader was very clear and concise.

This is a really well done non fiction, I feel like if you struggle to understand things like me he does well explaining everything but if you’re super smart it won’t feel like he’s really dumbing it down. I really learnt a lot with this and I’m super happy to have learnt what I did. It’s definitely important stuff for people to know. My only issues is at times it felt like just fact after fact after fact. I got a bit overwhelmed, it’s not the whole time but at some points in this it was. And then I didn’t understand whenever he was talking about temperatures because I’m not sure what Fahrenheit is in Celsius that’s on me though because I don’t expect him to say them all but the temperature is important in the learning and I’m not sure how to exchange it in my mind. The other American thing I didn’t understand was the gigatons to be able to see really how much water it is he said the size of Texas if it was in 24 ft of water which I also can’t imagine ft. So that’s all on me but that’s what I struggled with. It wasn’t dumb kiwi friendly bahahaha

I just finished listening to When the Ice Is Gone: What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals About Earth's Tumultuous History and Perilous Future by Paul Bierman.

https://www.audible.com/pd/When-the-Ice-Is-Gone-Audiobook/B0DC1MJCRT

Apparently it doesn’t take anthropocentric global warming to completely melt the Greenland ice sheet, as that is what happened roughly 400,000 years before. Those days the effect on the planet was enormous. I shudder to think what the additional CO2 we have put into the athmosphere will do combined with the factors that caused the disappearance of the ice all those years ago.

The book is entertaining and sometimes surprising. It clearly shows the scientists at their work and emphasises the need for many different field working together to make progress. It was interesting to hear how precise timing can get when you combine several methods. The book also shows to what extent some people will go to make sure that credit goes to them – and only to them. The story of the disappeared samples sometimes reads like a thriller.

If you are interested in science and especially in ice and climatology, this book is definitely for you.

Thanks to NetGalley and HighBridge (a division of Recorded Books) for sending me a review copy of this audiobook.

Decades-old frozen soil from Greenland’s first deep ice core has revealed a startling truth: 400,000 years ago, the ice sheet melted naturally. The book recounts this surprising discovery and its implications for our understanding of climate change. It explores the history of Greenland and argues that the melting of ice sheets will have devastating global repercussions if we fail to take action.

This book spent a lot more time on the history of Greenland and the nature of ice than I expected. It didn’t spend as much time as I hoped on the period when the ice melted. The audiobook narration was fine, but it didn’t do anything to make the rather dry subject more interesting.

Thanks, NetGalley, for the ARC.