Extraordinary Time-lapse Of Melting Glacier Highlights Global Warming Crisis

Whilst gathering footage for his documentary film, Chasing Ice, filmmaker James Balog captured footage of the largest iceberg calving ever filmed.

Balog, who had been inspired by an Arctic assignment for National Geographic, had journeyed to Greenland to “chronical the planet’s disappearing glaciers through a three-year, $3 million project called the Extreme Ice Survey.”

Whilst filming footage for the Extreme Ice Survey, Balog and his team of researches and filmmakers witnessed 7.4 cubic km of ice break off the Ilulissat glacier in Greenland. The extraordinary event is largest that has ever been filmed.

“It’s like watching ‘Manhattan breaking apart in front of your eyes,” says one of the researchers for filmmaker James Balog.

In an effort to inform the world of our current climate crisis, Balog and his team complied their footage in the documentary film Chasing Ice. However, although Balog’s dedication to the issue can clearly be seen in his work, during the early stages of his careers, Balog was openly sceptical about global warming.

“I didn’t think that humans were capable of changing the basic physics and chemistry of this entire, huge planet. It didn’t seem probable, it didn’t seem possible,” he explained in the 2012 documentary film “Chasing Ice.”

As reported by UpWorthy, as Balog believed that there was too much margin of error in the computer simulations, he was convinced that addressing the global warming issue was simply a waste of time. It wasn’t until 2005, the same year he was sent on the National Geographic photo expedition of the Arctic, that Balog became a believer.

“It was about actual tangible physical evidence that was preserved in the ice cores of Greenland and Antarctica,” he said in a 2012 interview with ThinkProgress. “That was really the smoking gun showing how far outside normal, natural variation the world has become. And that’s when I started to really get the message that this was something consequential and serious and needed to be dealt with.”

Despite the number of sceptics that still exist, global warming is an issue we cannot afford to ignore. According to a study supported by NASA and European Space Agency ESA, more Arctic landmass has melted away in the last 20 years than the previous 10,000 years. To help prevent this extraordinary landscape melting away completely, sign this petition today.

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