Extra Credit

Chasing Ice Chasing Ice was a movie I watched in my environmental class to receive extra credit. This movie was about a photographer named James Balog who wanted to capture climate change as it was happening. He wanted to prove that climate change is happening by capturing it on camera. He wanted to get videos of the ice melting as it was happening to show people we do have a climate change problem. He wanted visual evidence as stated in the movie. The movie stated he wanted to capture what humanity was doing to the world in a big perspective. James Balog started his project called Extreme Ice Survey by visiting the Solhiem Glacier in Iceland. The glacier resided six feet when he saw it break down. James Balog caught on camera his first glacier to disappear on camera. He then proceeded to put cameras in different places to see how glaciers melted and how they changed throughout a period f time. When he started it was in April of 2006 and went back t check the cameras he located in October. He wanted to see how things changed in a six month period, but when he went back he was disappointed that his hard work failed. Some of the cameras broke down and were no good. The cameras he used did not capture what he wanted because they stopped working, but this did not stop him. He then got some stronger cameras and started again. According to the movie, he installed five cameras in Iceland, five in Alaska and two in Montana. Six months later he went back to check up on the new cameras and they worked. They were recording what was happening during a six month period. At this time he was watching glaciers residing and thinning over time. He saw them melting into the ocean. According to the movie, he saw glaciers dying in Iceland in a period of three years starting from 2006 to 2009. He then started showing his findings to people to prove that global warming does exist. He also wanted to go back to the first glacier he saw melt to see how it was doing. The movie ended when his people recorded a glacier break down. His people waited to see what was happening to the glacier they watched it for weeks. Then one day it started melting and breaking down. They caught it on camera. The Solheim Glacier was described by his people like Manhattan breaking apart. His people caught the event on camera and said it was the biggest calving event on tape. It was awesome to see the glacier melting and the movie stated that the calving lasted about seventy five minutes. James Balog was happy to see all this events happening, but he was sad at the same time because he was worried about what he saw happening to the world.