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.)

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