Video: Chasing the Ice
Apparently, there are people who deny that global climate change is having drastic effects on the world’s ice caps and glaciers. Who knew?
If your mind isn’t closed, here’s a site that will open it even further: Extreme Ice Survey. It’s run by award-winning nature photographer James Balog, who uses time-lapse photography, conventional photography, and video to document the rapid changes occurring on the Earth’s glacial ice due to global warming.
Some of the EIS time-lapse videos are very scary indeed, graphically demonstrating the vanishing of these moving mountains of ice in a way that’s impossible to deny. (Impossible for those whose minds aren’t permanently closed, anyway.)
Here’s a teaser for the upcoming feature-length film “Chasing Ice,” about Balog’s crusade to bring awareness of these issues to the world.
UPDATE at 12/22/09 1:45:16 pm:
Here’s an extended talk by James Balog at TED, explaining his methodology and showing some of his more disturbing videos. (Hat tip: Gus 802.)
Frank says: