17 thoughts on “James Balog and Extreme Ice Video Compilation”
Good work from James Balog with this stunning and awesome empirical evidence of where some of the sea level rise will come from. When the acceleration of melt is shown on time lapse film, I do not see how anyone (sane/rational) can argue against climate change or impending major sea level increases, all that is left to argue about is how much mankind has to do with it. As Dr. Martin Sharp explains very succinctly that there has to be a GHG element to it.
Some of that ice-field looked pretty off colour, how extensive is dark snow getting ?
Local item of news in mon pays is that impending sea level rise is hitting home at last and even filtering into our newspaper:
“The Insurance Council chief executive Tim Grafton last month sounded a warning on climate change, saying that by 2050 about one million older Kiwis will be living in areas vulnerable to severe flooding, coastal storm surges, land slips and wind storms.”
We “non Australasians” can’t even understand what you folks are saying sometimes, but it must be a pretty good (nasty) joke to have garnered 8 “thumbs down” already. Are folks in Logan and Upper Coomera “sensitive”? And why are they the butt of jokes?
There are more New Zealanders living in Australia than New Zealand. It’s a common joke that they all live in Logan, a suburb of Brisbane, and Upper Coomera, a suburb on the Gold Coast. The thumbs down are because they’re still upset about losing the cricket.
So, what you’re saying is that a bunch of sheep shaggers who are now cane toads have gotten their grundies knotted because their team didn’t stand Buckley’s of winning cricket? Did I get that right?
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Crikey, any galah reading that reply would think you’re a fair dinkum true blue ‘strayan and a bit of a bogun too. Well done! 🙂
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Since I still had the Australian slang list (Koala net) on my browser, I looked up bogun (bogan?)—-unless that’s more of a compliment than it appears to be, that may cause me to spit the dummy.
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Most of the thumbs down, if not all are from me, (WordPress does not check the IP address it seems) so there are a lot of Kiwis in Aussie, but how many Aussies live in Earls Court and WTF does it have to do with the topic. I dislike anything Xenophobic and that is what I am reading. Bigger issues are at stake than who live where.
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red, sometimes the issue of climate change makes me want to curl up in a ball and cry. I apologise to you and all of New Zealand for trying to add some light relief to this thread with some gentle ribbing of my friendly cousins across the ditch. Before you go accusing me of xenophobia, I urge you to check my Twitter feed @uknowiSS. Read all my tweets and see how I feel about racists, xenophobes and Islamaphobes. Check all of my criticisms of the loony right wing government and go to my blog and see how seriously I take the issue of climate change. Then, if you still feel that I am a xenophobe who doesn’t take the issue seriously, tell me. If however, you find that I am not, you might consider not prejudging other commentators based on one or two comments. You might also consider seeing a dermatologist about that thin skin.
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Strewth, but I’ll be stuffed over you two bonzer blokes going off like frogs in a sock over this. Last time I looked, we were all on the same side. Do you want me to see if Jimmy Carter is available for a trip down under to help you make peace?
Redsky, I’ve stepped on your toes myself, apologized for it, and thanked you for all the good info you contribute to Crock, but I DO think you need to see that dermatologist. (And stop with the thumbs down unless you want to join Omno and Russell Cook).
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Apologies accepted and I’m not particularly thin skinned, I was brought up in a U.K midland city, which became the home of a few million Asians who were unfortunately uprooted from Africa under the dictators like Idi Amin in Uganda. They were decent hard working people who had been thrown out through no fault of their own and I was disgusted at some of my country folk’s racist attitude (including people I had considered as friends) and names that they called the refugees. I have since married a Chinese girl and have heard a few racist names being called by people who should know better. I blow my top when someone uses the term “G**k” and having some Welsh blood am not too keen on sheep-shagger either. I am sure neither of you meant any xenophobia so I apologize for over reacting. Regards to both.
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I have been following Balog’s visionary activity for over a decade and have his ‘Chasing Ice’ DVD which I re-watch at times. Being interested in photograph myself and having been exposed to hostile climates I take my hat off to James for his grit and perseverance against odds of failing equipment and physical disability. The determination in his face as he conquers the pain in his knees is clear in a number of sequences. If you do not yet have this, or have seen it then search out a copy.
I have passed mine around family and friends – unfortunately most don’t have a grasp of the importance of this work to actually shell out on their own copies but at least the message is getting around. Maybe I’ll stump up and short-cut the process.
What Balog early on in that clip is describing WRT the Solheim Glacier is what we know now is happening in Greenland and Antarctica, I look forward to seeing the results of his mission to that latter continent which may be the time I buy copies of any video for other family.
Still awesome every time I watch it.
Would like to see followups though.
I hope Balog is able to continue with a sequel, and I would volunteer to help.
“Still awesome every time” indeed. It was on one of the other climate sites just a few days ago, so I’ve now seen it twice in a week. The only glaciers I’ve been up close with were in Glacier National Park, and all they were doing was sitting there melting—nowhere near as exciting as watching 1/4 of Manhattan flip over. That is a once in a lifetime experience that few will see.
Why do the interviewers have to keep bring up the like of, ‘…you know some sceptics argue that they are always changing this is just part of an ancient process…’?
Imagine in the future.. people watching this video and listening to the message: “I want to show that climate change is real”. They’ll certainly need this video to believe that anybody thought it was necessary to go into this kind of trouble just to show it “is real”.
Disaster movies have always done well at the box office but we’ll be damned – and I mean this almost literally – before we do something to stave off the catastrophe that’s playing in front of our eyes.
Good work from James Balog with this stunning and awesome empirical evidence of where some of the sea level rise will come from. When the acceleration of melt is shown on time lapse film, I do not see how anyone (sane/rational) can argue against climate change or impending major sea level increases, all that is left to argue about is how much mankind has to do with it. As Dr. Martin Sharp explains very succinctly that there has to be a GHG element to it.
Some of that ice-field looked pretty off colour, how extensive is dark snow getting ?
Local item of news in mon pays is that impending sea level rise is hitting home at last and even filtering into our newspaper:
“The Insurance Council chief executive Tim Grafton last month sounded a warning on climate change, saying that by 2050 about one million older Kiwis will be living in areas vulnerable to severe flooding, coastal storm surges, land slips and wind storms.”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/climate-change/news/article.cfm?c_id=26&objectid=11427214
“….. saying that by 2050 about one million older Kiwis will be living in areas vulnerable to severe flooding….”
Logan and Upper Coomera isn’t that low-lying 😛 (apologies to non-Australasian readers who won’t get the joke).
We “non Australasians” can’t even understand what you folks are saying sometimes, but it must be a pretty good (nasty) joke to have garnered 8 “thumbs down” already. Are folks in Logan and Upper Coomera “sensitive”? And why are they the butt of jokes?
There are more New Zealanders living in Australia than New Zealand. It’s a common joke that they all live in Logan, a suburb of Brisbane, and Upper Coomera, a suburb on the Gold Coast. The thumbs down are because they’re still upset about losing the cricket.
So, what you’re saying is that a bunch of sheep shaggers who are now cane toads have gotten their grundies knotted because their team didn’t stand Buckley’s of winning cricket? Did I get that right?
Crikey, any galah reading that reply would think you’re a fair dinkum true blue ‘strayan and a bit of a bogun too. Well done! 🙂
Since I still had the Australian slang list (Koala net) on my browser, I looked up bogun (bogan?)—-unless that’s more of a compliment than it appears to be, that may cause me to spit the dummy.
Most of the thumbs down, if not all are from me, (WordPress does not check the IP address it seems) so there are a lot of Kiwis in Aussie, but how many Aussies live in Earls Court and WTF does it have to do with the topic. I dislike anything Xenophobic and that is what I am reading. Bigger issues are at stake than who live where.
red, sometimes the issue of climate change makes me want to curl up in a ball and cry. I apologise to you and all of New Zealand for trying to add some light relief to this thread with some gentle ribbing of my friendly cousins across the ditch. Before you go accusing me of xenophobia, I urge you to check my Twitter feed @uknowiSS. Read all my tweets and see how I feel about racists, xenophobes and Islamaphobes. Check all of my criticisms of the loony right wing government and go to my blog and see how seriously I take the issue of climate change. Then, if you still feel that I am a xenophobe who doesn’t take the issue seriously, tell me. If however, you find that I am not, you might consider not prejudging other commentators based on one or two comments. You might also consider seeing a dermatologist about that thin skin.
Strewth, but I’ll be stuffed over you two bonzer blokes going off like frogs in a sock over this. Last time I looked, we were all on the same side. Do you want me to see if Jimmy Carter is available for a trip down under to help you make peace?
Redsky, I’ve stepped on your toes myself, apologized for it, and thanked you for all the good info you contribute to Crock, but I DO think you need to see that dermatologist. (And stop with the thumbs down unless you want to join Omno and Russell Cook).
Apologies accepted and I’m not particularly thin skinned, I was brought up in a U.K midland city, which became the home of a few million Asians who were unfortunately uprooted from Africa under the dictators like Idi Amin in Uganda. They were decent hard working people who had been thrown out through no fault of their own and I was disgusted at some of my country folk’s racist attitude (including people I had considered as friends) and names that they called the refugees. I have since married a Chinese girl and have heard a few racist names being called by people who should know better. I blow my top when someone uses the term “G**k” and having some Welsh blood am not too keen on sheep-shagger either. I am sure neither of you meant any xenophobia so I apologize for over reacting. Regards to both.
I have been following Balog’s visionary activity for over a decade and have his ‘Chasing Ice’ DVD which I re-watch at times. Being interested in photograph myself and having been exposed to hostile climates I take my hat off to James for his grit and perseverance against odds of failing equipment and physical disability. The determination in his face as he conquers the pain in his knees is clear in a number of sequences. If you do not yet have this, or have seen it then search out a copy.
I have passed mine around family and friends – unfortunately most don’t have a grasp of the importance of this work to actually shell out on their own copies but at least the message is getting around. Maybe I’ll stump up and short-cut the process.
What Balog early on in that clip is describing WRT the Solheim Glacier is what we know now is happening in Greenland and Antarctica, I look forward to seeing the results of his mission to that latter continent which may be the time I buy copies of any video for other family.
Still awesome every time I watch it.
Would like to see followups though.
I hope Balog is able to continue with a sequel, and I would volunteer to help.
“Still awesome every time” indeed. It was on one of the other climate sites just a few days ago, so I’ve now seen it twice in a week. The only glaciers I’ve been up close with were in Glacier National Park, and all they were doing was sitting there melting—nowhere near as exciting as watching 1/4 of Manhattan flip over. That is a once in a lifetime experience that few will see.
Andy,
I had email near end of last year indicating that Chasing Ice was going south and here is a clip leading up to that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW9x3eZinbs
Why do the interviewers have to keep bring up the like of, ‘…you know some sceptics argue that they are always changing this is just part of an ancient process…’?
more from:
http://extremeicesurvey.org/
Imagine in the future.. people watching this video and listening to the message: “I want to show that climate change is real”. They’ll certainly need this video to believe that anybody thought it was necessary to go into this kind of trouble just to show it “is real”.
Disaster movies have always done well at the box office but we’ll be damned – and I mean this almost literally – before we do something to stave off the catastrophe that’s playing in front of our eyes.