Chasing Ice

 

In the spring of 2005, acclaimed National Geographic photographer James Balog was dispatched to the Arctic on a tricky assignment: to capture images that tell the story of the Earth’s changing climate. At the time, Balog was skeptical. Even if human-caused climate change is real, can we correct it? But what he saw on that first trip was too compelling to dispute. Balog had to act and so created the Extreme Ice Survey, a multi-year project that would, through time-lapse photography, document dramatic changes to numerous glaciers around the world. With stunning cinematography and access to never before seen areas of the Arctic, Chasing Ice documents Balog’s incredible journey to provide incontrovertible proof—at great risk to his own health—that our planet is in crisis and what we do to it matters.

 

 

 

 

 

The ice is really melting. Sea levels will rise alarmingly and swamp the lowlands and the coasts of all coastal countries. We will be more vulnerable to the heat of the sun without the ice to reflect the solar rays back out into space. The oceans will heat up and aquatic life will die. I am not even scratching the surface of the devastation we face. Find out what your country is doing about it. Find out what you can do about it. This is about the survival of our planet.