James Balog's "Chasing Ice"

[sky otter]

i'm putting this here cause even if you think WE are in charge and the ones making the changes
i say we are only witnesess ..with front row seats and stories to dine out on forever
- to what the planet is doing
it's evolving..
with or without us

incredible visuals regardeless of your view point


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/02/chasing-ice-james-balog-documentary_n_2057684.html?utm_hp_ref=green#slide=more233607

'Chasing Ice' Follows James Balog's Mission To Capture Climate Change
Posted: 11/02/2012 12:38 pm EDT Updated: 11/02/2012 1:01 pm EDT

"Use your voice." Standing before the audience at the New York City premiere of "Chasing Ice" in October, photographer James Balog offered this encouragement to individuals wondering what they can do in the face of global climate change.

"Chasing Ice" follows the work of Balog and his Extreme Ice Survey project, a long-term photographic study of the impact of climate change on the world's glaciers. It focuses on the expeditions of the EIS team to install solar-powered cameras overlooking glaciers in some of the most remote regions. Time-lapse images from these cameras show the glaciers retreating at a stunning rate.

Both Balog and director-cinematographer Jeff Orlowski said they went into the project not knowing if the cameras would capture such remarkable change. Orlowski told The Huffington Post that he believed Balog and his team were undertaking an interesting project and found their mission "compelling" from the outset. But only after a year and a half of filming did he push to produce a feature. "We knew that we had a story," he said.

Balog noted, "We really didn't know what the glaciers were going to do" or "what would happen in the course of one or two or five years." Yet what they discovered was "completely shocking."

"You kind of have this mindset that these glaciers are these slow-moving creatures, and you just kind of think that they're stagnant and always just sitting there," Orlowski said. "I think what [Balog] really accomplished in the time-lapses was revealing to the world a very different way of understanding how the planet's changing."

The origins of the EIS go back to early 2005 when Balog took on an assignment for The New Yorker. "I really resisted that assignment," he said, thinking at the time that climate change was "unphotographable." But "the demands of that assignment" pushed him to explore what was possible.

rest of article at link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/02/chasing-ice-james-balog-documentary_n_2057684.html?utm_hp_ref=green#slide=more233607

bunch of pics at the end of the article
take note of the five humans ..bottom left.. in the 2nd pic
only 5 years for this to melt..wow

may 2004
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july 2009
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[The Matrix Traveller]

YES the Planet is changing.... With or without the Human Species.

WHY and WHAT TO ?

We might be around to see the Oceans change their Location.

From above the Earth's Crust to the Underside.

A Natural Phenomena..

Sit back and Watch.... Could be Interesting to say the Least.

In ancient writings, it is mentioned, that the Seas will Change and at sometime in the future
the Seas will no longer be seen ?

Is all this just Part of the Earth's "Thermal Cycles" ?

Often we forget about "Heat" being generated inside the Earth from Gravitational tidal effects
caused by the Sun and Moon.

So the temperature on the surface of the Earth, also includes this Phenomena as well as
many other factors.

A very, very complex or rather Involved "Environment" perhaps NOT as simple
as the human species would like it to be !