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It's hard not to be impressed
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when you see entire houses being swept away
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by flood waters in the West
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Fires stretch from one end
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of Texas to the other.
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Tornadoes--
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a dozen tornadoes have already been spotted
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Liberals will say, well if it's cold,
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it's global warming, if it's
snowing it's global warming,
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if it's hot it's global
warming-- there's nothing
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that doesn't prove that
there's-- it's global warming.
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VO-- MSNBC The latest estimates
for rebuilding from Irene,
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already seven billion dollars.
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2011 is now on track
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to be the most expensive year
ever for weather related damage.
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A drought of historic proportions has hit Nepal.
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The horror
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of raging wildfires has
again returned to Russia.
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The say it was
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like nothing they've ever seen before.
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16 of the last 20 years
are the hottest on record.
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The science is not in
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It is in
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No
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Stuart quit saying that.
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The debate is over.
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No, the debate is not over
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The globe is actually cooling
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and has been cooling since 2002.
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The consensus
is that there is no consensus.
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I mean how do you not...
global warming
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is real.
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You're about to self implode here.
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The ice caps, the poles,
are not going
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to melt, the oceans are not
going to flood the coast --
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I promise you, 20 years from today,
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I'll be the one that's laughing.
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The worst that would happen is
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that I'd just get really wet
if I just stood in place.
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No.
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You fall, you try to run,
you bang your knee on a piece
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of ice, and you bust your knee.
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Ah, I just--
I have to get this picture.
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The first time I worked with James,
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It was obvious how he goes
about things, you know?
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Alright quickly!
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Cause this light won't last forever.
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He pushe sit--
he's looking for something.
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You do have rope in the car?
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Yeah.
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Go back and get whatever you have.
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Okay.
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Alright, I'm,
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I'm almost certain to get wet, Okay?
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In fact, I think I'm so certain to get wet,
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I'll take my boots off.
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And it was very interesting
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because it was his first real encounter
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at looking at ice in that way.
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He really did fall in love with it.
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There's this limitless Universe
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of forms out there...
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That is just, surreal, other worldly.
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Sculptural, architectural...
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insanely, ridiculously beautiful.
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And that's when I though,
okay, the story is in the ice.
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Somehow.
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I was umm, about 25 or so, I guess.
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And I was finishing my master's
degree in Geomorphology.
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And um, I loved the science,
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but I wasn't interested in being a scientist.
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The modern world of science
was all about statistics
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and computer modeling and that just wasn't me.
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I had no contacts in the photo world,
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I had no knowledge of the photo world.
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But, youthful brashness can take you a long way,
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make things happen, so, that's how it worked.
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I had this idea that the most powerful issue
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of our time was the interaction
of humans and nature.
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One of the subjects I started to
look at involved people hunting.
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But they were bloody, gory,
horrific pictures, hard to look
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at-- hard for me to
look at even today.
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And so, when I had this idea
to look at endangered wildlife,
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I realized that I needed to show these things
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in a more seductive fashion.
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I had to look at it in ways
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that would engage
people-- pull them in.
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He's always taken the big view.
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You know? He's not looking
at this little micro slice.
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He's really looking at what humanity is doing
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from a very large perspective.
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His books-- they force you
to regard nature in a way
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that you're not accustomed to looking at em.
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He's forcing you to think.
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He's forcing me to think.
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And that's what I love about James' work.
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You know, Ansel Adams was the father
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of all landscape photography
and he created a movement
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around wilderness that only images could do.
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And now you have James
with that same kind of eye.
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But being able to do more with the technology.
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It's not just the drive
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to climb mountains and hang off cliffs.
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He has the ability to capture
it in a way and communicate it.
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Observing it and knowing it
is one thing, but sharing it
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and sharing it effectively can change the world.
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I did a couple years of research
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on the climate change story,
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trying to find what you could
photograph about climate change
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that would make interesting photographs.
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And I eventually realized that
the only thing that-- to me--
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sounded right, was ice.
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He came with us with a proposal
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to do a profile of one glacier in Iceland.
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We essentially countered
to him, we said, well look,
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why don't we just do a bigger story.
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It was on the cover of the magazine.
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Most popular, most wellread
story in the last five years.
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As I was shooting that story,
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I started to get the very strong sense
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that this was a scouting mission
for something much bigger,
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and much longer-term
that was about to unfold.
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The Solheim Glacier, the
Sunhouse Glacier in translation,
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is where I really first got it.
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That glacier had been receding
several hundred feet a year;
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which is a lot.
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You normally have a little bit
of advance in the winter time,
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a little bit of retreat in the summer time;
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but when you see huge amounts of change,
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that's outside of normal behavior.
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There was a real sense of the
glacier just coming to an end;
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and like this old, decrepit man, just, you know,
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falling into the earth and dying.
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It was very evocative, very emotional.
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As a guy who's been mountaineering
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for basically my whole adult
life, uh, someone whose trained
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in the earth sciences, I never imagined
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that you could see features
this big disappearing
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in such a short period of time.
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But when I did-- when I saw
that-- and I realized, my God,
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there's a powerful piece
of history that's unfolding
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in these pictures and I have
to go back to those same spots.
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So, I set up a whole bunch of camera positions
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around that glacier where I would just go back
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and shoot a single frame.
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You know, one in April, one in October,
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and we would just see how the
glacier changed in six months.
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Right there where Svav is.
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Right there.
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That's exactly where the ice was.
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Right there.
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Right? Over.
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Uhh, correct, this is where...
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That glacier had changed so much, that,
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I'm not kidding, for like
three hours, we stood there,
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looking at the prints of six months ago,
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looking at the glacier going, we must be wrong,
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we can't be in the right places.
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They appear to be from over there.
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And when I saw those, the lights when off
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for me, I realized, the
public doesn't wanna hear
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about more statistical
studies, more computer models,
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more projections-- what
they need is a believable,
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understandable piece
of visual evidence--
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something that grabs them in the gut.
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So I created this project called
the Extreme Ice Survey-- or EIS.
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The initial goal was to put
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out twenty five cameras for three years.
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And they would shoot every hour
as long as it was daylight.
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We would download those cameras every so often
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and turn those individual
frames into video clips
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that would show you how
the landscape was changing.
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I thought that basically,
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you could just buy all this time
lapse equipment off the shelf,
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slam it together and put it out there.
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I was so naive about that.
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Uh, there was a custom
computer that needed to be built
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and there were a thousand little
engineering details that needed
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to be worked out and a lot of trial and error,
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because people hadn't built this stuff before.
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And it was clear to me, it
would have to be a team effort.
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I wasn't that into photography,
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but I talked him into me coming
up here and having a look.
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Cause I was curious and I really
wanted to do whatever I could
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to get my foot in the door.
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Svav is the field assistant in Iceland.
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You ready?
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As ready as I can be.
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These are more attractive
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because I think they're more pictureeqse,
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and they're still big glaciers.
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Jason has a deep, deep well of experience
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about Greenland's glaciers,
about Greenland logistics,
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about what the glaciers were doing.
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Tad's a glaciologist he's
really the grandfather,
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the Godfather the knowledge base
about those glaciers in Alaska.
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The scope and the scale of EIS is bigger
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than any other project since I've known him.
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They would work all day, in our little,
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what used to be our garage,
turned into a workshop--
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until sometimes, 11, 12 o'clock at night.
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James sent me a gear list of things
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that I had never heard-- I
mean Ice axes and crampons--
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all of this technical climbing gear
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that I had never used before.
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I remember thinking that I
never want to do ice climbing
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or ice related stuff, it's
dangerous, I'm gonna die,
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but of course, I still
went with James to Iceland.
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Jeez...
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What?
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I'm just saying Jesus Christ.
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I'm just emphasizing how bad the
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weather is.
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Yeah, I don't need it.
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I get it.
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The essence of the camera systems is based
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on putting really delicate electronics
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in the harshest conditions on the planet.
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They have to withstand hurricane force winds.
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Negative 40 degree temperatures.
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It's not the nicest environment
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for technology to be sitting out in.
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Whatever the dangers of that boulder are,
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that's a better spot than this is.
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Well we found a place to hide the camera;
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that's the good news.
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The bad news is we've got a
major engineering project to try
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and get that thing anchored and supported.
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This thing is loose.
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Look how soft this stuff is.
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Yeah it's gotta be this section right here.
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Uh... The other way around.
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Rock! This is fantastic.
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Look at this.
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It's exactly what we wanted.
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Okay.. Well, here we go.
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The first eyeballs on the glacier-- finally.
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Let's uh, see what a couple years brings to us.
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We installed five cameras
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in total on that trip.
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After that, we went on to Greenland.
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When glaciers
break these gigantic icebergs
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off into the ocean it's
called calving c-a-l-v-i-n-g.
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Ever since glaciers have entered
the ocean, hundreds of thousands
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of years ago, ice has always calved off.
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But what we're seeing now is the
Greenland ice sheet thinning out
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and dumping out ever more
ice and water into the ocean.
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Okay good.
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Yep. Right up here.
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It's sort of like doing a portrait of people.
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You know, uh, Richard Avendan
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and Irving Penn spent their
entire careers doing portraits
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of faces essential, and found endless variation
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and endless beauty and endless
magic in those faces and for me,
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that's the same thing as what's going on here.
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You know you feel this
tension between this huge,
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enduring power of these
glaciers and their fragility.
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You know, they came from
a great, impassive place,
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and they're just, they're crumbling
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into these tiny little blocks
of ice going off into the ocean.
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It's crazy.
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My first trip to Greenland, We were setting
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up one of the cameras at Store Glacier.
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We got there, we saw this really,
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bizarre looking peninsula.
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Just kind of perched out at the
front of this-- the calving face
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of the glacier, where the glacier ends.
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This thing is gonna
break off all summer long man.
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Look at this.
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Those peninsulas are, are
just a matter of days--
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at most, a couple weeks.
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It was huge.
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It was five football fields
long-- 1,500 feet long.
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And about 300 feet above
the surface of the water.
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As we're setting up the cameras,
we also set up a video camera,
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and had it pointed right
there, at that peninsula,
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and we just had it rolling.
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Just in case.
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Oh my God,
a giant crack just formed.
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See that whole island, it's going away.
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There it goes man.
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We were there
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for just a one hour period of time.
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And, absurdly, somehow
fortunately captured an event
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that seldom is caught on film.
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There is this
really big stuff happening right
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under our noses, happening right now.
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But I feel like time is clicking, you know.
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And we need to get these cameras out here.
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Okay.
Onward.
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The logistics
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of things are just like, crazy.
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It reminds you how far he's
willing to take an idea.
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Heads up!
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Heads up!
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Tight, tight tight.
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This is tonight's dinner,
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I just found out.
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Eight.
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Seven. Six, Five.
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Ah!
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This is the way to travel, my friend.
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We ended up installing about
a dozen cameras in Greenland,
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five in Iceland, five in
Alaska and two in Montana.
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Frankly, I can't believe we actually managed
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to pull this off.
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You know, about 20 years ago,
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I was a skeptic about climate change.
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I thought is was based on computer models,
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I thought maybe there was a lot of hyperbole
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that was turning this into an activist cause.
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But most importantly, I didn't
think that humans were capable
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of changing the basic physics and chemistry
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of this entire huge planet.
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It didn't seem probable,
it didn't seem possible.
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And then I learned about the
record that's in the ice cores.
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The history of ancient climate
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that was embedded in those cores.
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And the story that the glaciers were telling.
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The Greenland
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and Antarctic ice sheets
are these giant domes of ice
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that preserve climate records,
very much like tree rings.
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Snow is added to the top, turns into ice,
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and ice core scientist can drill
holes through the ice sheets
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and pull out a core and
examine, not only the ice,
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but also bubbles of ancient air
that are trapped in the ice.
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By looking at the chemistry
of the ice, we can learn
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about past temperature,
and by looking at the air,
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we can actually measure
the carbon dioxide content.
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One of the things that we
learn, is that past temperature
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and carbon dioxide vary together.
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They go up together, they go down together.
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And over the last 800,000 years or so,
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atmospheric carbon dioxide was never higher
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that about 280 parts per million.
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Until we started adding carbon
dioxide to the atmosphere.
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And now it's about 390 parts per million.
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And that's about 40 percent higher than it was
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when carbon dioxide was only
varying for natural reasons.
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But now we're heading for 500
parts per million or more.
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That pace is a 100 to 1000 times greater
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than the pace at which things have changed
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by themselves, naturally.
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The amazing thing to me is that
we're already seeing impacts
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because the change already
has been so small, right?
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It's been .8 degrees C,
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about 1.5 degrees
Farenheit since 1850 or so.
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And yet we've seen so much stuff...
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crazy stuff going on already.
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What counts
to me more than the notion
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of the climate changing, is
that the air is changing.
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The air that we live in,
the air that sustains us,
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the basic physics and chemistry
of that air is changing.
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This is about the stuff that you and I breath.
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And that effects everything in the agriculture
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and the water supply of all the
plants and animals around us.
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Plants
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and animals are already going extinct.
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They're going extinct a 100 times faster now
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than they did 1000 years ago.
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And as the climate continues to
warm, we're going to loose more
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and more, and more species because we're going
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to have more suppresses happening.
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We're going to have a mass extinction event
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that could happen within
the next 200 to 300 years.
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Mass extinction event means that we loose half,
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or maybe three quarters of the number of species
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that we have on the planet.
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Are we going to be loosing the
plants that clean our water?
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The plants that clean our air?
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If there's no pollinators
out there to pollinate,
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then we're going to have to do it by hand.
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And they're already doing that
in China-- having to go out
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and pollinate their crops by hand.
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In the last 20 years, we have lost,
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close to 20 percent of the forest area
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in Arizona-New Mexico.
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And that's a high mortality
in those forest areas.
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We have seen an increasing in
the length of the fire season
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by more than two
months; larger fires
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in the Western United
States in the last 20 years;
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and we've seen hotter fires
- more extreme fires burning.
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It's not just by chance that
I'm seeing many rare events
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happening all in sequence, you know.
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There's a reason for that.
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We're seeing extraordinary
changes in our environment.
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Munich Re is the world's largest
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re-insurance company and
our business model is
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to provide insurance for
the insurance companies.
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As Munich Re is a major
reinsurer for natural perils,
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natural catastrophes; we need
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to know the risks as best as we can.
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We have discovered some trends in the number
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and in the losses natural perils have caused.
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And, interestingly, for
the weather related events,
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our activities-- primarily
greenhouse gas emissions--
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are contributing to more
intense and more events.
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It cannot be acclaimed by just better reporting,
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it has to be explained by changes
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in the atmospheric conditions.
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Imagine a base ball player on steroids
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who steps up to the plate and hits a home run.
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Can you attribute that home
run to his taking steroids?
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Well steroids occur naturally
in very small amounts
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in your system, but by adding just a little bit
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of those steroids, you can
change your background physical
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state and increase your
chances for enhanced performance
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and that's exactly what
happens in the climate system.
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Greenhouse gases occur in very
small amounts but by increasing
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that just a little bit, you
change the background state
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of the system and make it much more susceptible
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to increased extremes.
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If you had an abcess in your tooth,
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would you keep going to dentist after dentist
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until you found a dentist that said,
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ahhh, don't worry about it.
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Leave that rotten tooth in.
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Or would you pull it out because more
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of the other dentists told
you you had a problem?
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That's sort of what we're
doing with Climate Change.
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00:27:07,570 --> 00:27:12,010
We'll be arguing about this for centuries.
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We're still arguing about a
minor thing called evolution,
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a minor thing about whether man
actually walked on the moon.
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00:27:17,610 --> 00:27:24,510
We don't have time.
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We have low oil pressure
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in engine number two.
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So I've shut down engine number two.
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00:27:54,270 --> 00:27:59,090
We cannot hover with one engine.
430
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You look out
that window at that sea water
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with icebergs floating around in
there and you realize if we go
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in that, we'll have five
minutes of physical function
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00:28:08,150 --> 00:28:13,510
and in 10 minutes we're dead.
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00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:15,260
The fire brigade will be on standby
435
00:28:15,270 --> 00:28:17,710
in case we need their help.
436
00:28:50,890 --> 00:28:53,090
He needs to do his adventures.
437
00:28:53,100 --> 00:28:55,050
That's what makes him who he is.
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00:28:55,060 --> 00:28:57,310
That's who the man is, that's who I married.
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Do I wish sometimes that it was closer
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and he would come home at five o'clock?
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As a wife, yes.
442
00:29:05,730 --> 00:29:14,050
As a human being, it needs to continue, so.
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00:29:14,060 --> 00:29:15,970
He's on this never ending quest
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for something.
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00:29:19,270 --> 00:29:22,840
He's just going and hoping that something
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that he's doing is taking
him in the right direction
447
00:29:26,060 --> 00:29:27,880
and I think that EIS is it.
448
00:29:27,900 --> 00:29:34,970
He's looking to make a global, worldwide impact.
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00:29:34,980 --> 00:29:39,050
I've never seen him so passionate
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00:29:39,060 --> 00:29:41,630
about a project before.
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00:29:56,570 --> 00:29:58,380
Alright, this way.
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00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,590
It's my job to go out there every couple
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of months to visit the cameras.
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To go over is everything is okay.
455
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:12,220
There was always a possibility
that this would happen.
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00:30:13,940 --> 00:30:15,970
This just-- this whole
piece must have cracked off
457
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in one part; flew off
into whoever knows where.
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00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:24,220
The rock obviously did not read our warning.
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00:30:24,230 --> 00:30:25,890
It's only shot eight pictures
460
00:30:25,900 --> 00:30:30,630
in the past 24 hours which is somewhat weird.
461
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:37,510
In fact it's very weird.
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00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:39,050
It--
It could still shoot.
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00:30:39,060 --> 00:30:40,720
Come on, please.
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00:30:40,730 --> 00:30:41,720
Please work.
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It's dead.
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00:30:43,150 --> 00:30:44,010
It has to be dead.
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00:30:44,020 --> 00:30:46,600
Okay, so...
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00:30:46,610 --> 00:30:50,470
Everything we're
trying is getting thwarted.
469
00:30:56,110 --> 00:31:00,670
Again. Zebras again.
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00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,220
Ohhhhh.
471
00:31:03,230 --> 00:31:04,550
We've had numerous,
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00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,840
numerous timer failures.
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00:31:07,860 --> 00:31:11,880
We've had cameras buried
under 15 or 20 feet of snow.
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00:31:11,890 --> 00:31:13,390
Ewwww.
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00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:14,760
Oh my.
476
00:31:14,770 --> 00:31:17,670
We've had Plexiglas windows sand blasted
477
00:31:17,690 --> 00:31:20,880
We've had batteries explode
inside the camera boxes.
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00:31:20,890 --> 00:31:22,510
I think it's a bird just kind
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00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:23,840
of pecking away at it.
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00:31:23,850 --> 00:31:27,220
This is what a fox does to your cables
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00:31:27,230 --> 00:31:28,460
when you're not looking.
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00:31:28,470 --> 00:31:30,720
He had spent a lot of many-- grants,
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personal money, getting to
Alaska, getting to Greenland
484
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,300
and when you go out there, you want it to work,
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00:31:35,310 --> 00:31:38,670
and when something doesn't work,
you feel so far from anything
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00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,510
and anyone that can help you.
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00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:45,970
I think It's in that voltage regulator.
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00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,550
All of that obsession means absolutely nothing
489
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:59,760
if a little electronic
piece that big doesn't work.
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00:32:00,980 --> 00:32:03,180
If I don't have pictures, I don't have anything.
491
00:32:03,190 --> 00:32:05,930
You know, everything is a failure.
492
00:32:05,940 --> 00:32:07,710
No, it's dead, it's not working.
493
00:32:07,730 --> 00:32:10,840
Period, flat out, just dead.
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00:32:10,850 --> 00:32:12,260
It's dead.
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00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:14,760
God, after all this!
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00:32:14,770 --> 00:32:17,710
After all this, it just
- it makes me insane!
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00:32:17,730 --> 00:32:20,670
It makes me fucking insane!
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00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:27,420
It's so disappointing.
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00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:35,800
It's hard to see somebody that you love chase
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00:32:35,810 --> 00:32:37,710
after something that...
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00:32:37,730 --> 00:32:40,130
might not ever happen.
502
00:33:18,220 --> 00:33:20,130
See that white dot down there...
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00:33:20,140 --> 00:33:21,340
There's a white dot on the...
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Something's happening inside the timer.
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00:33:25,980 --> 00:33:28,130
After months of trouble shooting,
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00:33:28,150 --> 00:33:30,050
we realized that the core problem was
507
00:33:30,060 --> 00:33:33,050
in the voltage regulator and
in this little computer timer--
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00:33:33,060 --> 00:33:37,390
this custom made computer that
told the cameras when to fire.
509
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:38,420
We worked with these guys
510
00:33:38,430 --> 00:33:40,590
at National Geographic, and we sat down
511
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:42,180
and re-designed the controllers.
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00:33:42,190 --> 00:33:45,140
We switched
to an entirely different kind
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00:33:45,150 --> 00:33:48,760
of a circuit that used less
power and is a lot more reliable
514
00:33:48,770 --> 00:33:53,260
because it has a simpler
electronic circuitry inside it.
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00:33:53,270 --> 00:33:55,010
That was the turning point
516
00:33:55,020 --> 00:33:57,710
for the whole system.
517
00:33:57,730 --> 00:33:59,760
We had to replace all the old timers.
518
00:33:59,770 --> 00:34:03,550
And had to wait for a whole
season to check on them again
519
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,050
and make sure they were working.
520
00:34:56,730 --> 00:34:59,470
We gotta be getting close.
521
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:00,420
We are.
522
00:35:00,430 --> 00:35:06,810
We'll be able to see it from up here.
523
00:35:06,820 --> 00:35:07,920
Yeah.
524
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:12,720
Okay.
525
00:35:12,730 --> 00:35:20,130
Alright. This is the big one;
Okay.
526
00:35:22,900 --> 00:35:23,840
Here it goes.
527
00:35:23,850 --> 00:35:25,390
Playback.
528
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:31,800
March.
529
00:35:31,810 --> 00:35:34,390
11, 2008. It just shot!
530
00:35:39,850 --> 00:35:43,300
It's been working all winter!
531
00:35:43,310 --> 00:35:44,970
Ahhh man. Hello!
532
00:35:44,980 --> 00:35:47,050
I can't believe that worked.
533
00:35:47,070 --> 00:35:49,510
Do you know how cold it's
been out here, for how long?
534
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:51,720
I'm unbelievably surprised.
535
00:35:51,730 --> 00:35:54,930
We have over 2,300 frames.
536
00:35:54,940 --> 00:35:55,680
Since June?
537
00:35:55,690 --> 00:35:57,960
Let me see.
538
00:35:57,980 --> 00:36:00,260
And everything's working.
539
00:36:24,730 --> 00:36:26,930
It's been shooting the entire time...
540
00:36:26,940 --> 00:36:32,010
Fantastic.
541
00:36:32,020 --> 00:36:34,140
Here's the memory of the
camera and this is-- actually,
542
00:36:34,150 --> 00:36:35,760
that's an interesting thought.
543
00:36:35,770 --> 00:36:37,840
This is the memory of the landscape.
544
00:36:37,860 --> 00:36:39,550
That landscape is gone.
545
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:42,090
It may never be seen again in
the history of civilization
546
00:36:42,100 --> 00:36:45,890
and it's stored right here.
547
00:36:55,980 --> 00:36:58,670
In 1984, the glacier was
down there, 11 miles away.
548
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:00,840
And today, it's back here.
549
00:37:00,850 --> 00:37:03,390
It receded 11 miles.
550
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,010
The glacier's retreating,
551
00:37:06,020 --> 00:37:07,880
but it's also thinning at the same time.
552
00:37:07,900 --> 00:37:09,550
It's like the air being let out of a balloon.
553
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:12,430
You can see what's
called the trim line--
554
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:16,720
it's the high water mark of the glacier in 1984.
555
00:37:16,730 --> 00:37:19,670
That vertical change is the height
556
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:22,680
of the Empire State Building.
557
00:37:34,940 --> 00:37:39,340
You know, we're really in the
midst of geologic scale change.
558
00:37:39,350 --> 00:37:42,890
You know our brains are programed to think
559
00:37:42,900 --> 00:37:45,430
that geology is something
that happened a long time ago
560
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:47,590
or it will happen a long time in the future.
561
00:37:47,610 --> 00:37:50,720
And we don't think that can
happen during these little years
562
00:37:50,730 --> 00:37:52,840
that we each live on this planet.
563
00:37:52,850 --> 00:37:56,180
But the reality is that it does.
564
00:37:56,190 --> 00:37:58,630
That things can happen very, very very quickly.
565
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,050
We're living through one of those moments
566
00:38:01,060 --> 00:38:03,970
of epochal geologic change right now.
567
00:38:03,980 --> 00:38:06,760
And we humans are causing it.
568
00:38:39,850 --> 00:38:42,510
Up and down the edges of the ice sheet,
569
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,140
there's this zone called the melt zone.
570
00:38:45,150 --> 00:38:49,840
This is where the sheet is
melting and that stored water
571
00:38:49,850 --> 00:38:53,050
from the ice sheet is running out to sea.
572
00:39:05,110 --> 00:39:07,800
I have to wrap my knees
for the day's festivities.
573
00:39:07,810 --> 00:39:11,260
This knee has had two surgeries on it already
574
00:39:11,270 --> 00:39:14,350
and it really could use a third.
575
00:39:16,730 --> 00:39:19,220
It's like the surface of the moon.
576
00:39:19,230 --> 00:39:22,260
Look at those holes.
577
00:39:33,850 --> 00:39:35,100
Oh my gosh, look at this stuff!
578
00:39:35,110 --> 00:39:37,710
I had no idea it was so thick in here.
579
00:39:37,730 --> 00:39:41,220
This stuff, this cryoconite,
it's made from a combination
580
00:39:41,230 --> 00:39:43,510
of natural dust that blows in from the deserts
581
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:48,510
of central Asia, mixed with
little flakes of carbon,
582
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:53,220
Fine particles of soot that come
from wildfires, diesel exhaust
583
00:39:53,230 --> 00:39:54,760
and coal-fired power plants.
584
00:39:54,770 --> 00:39:58,050
And on top of it, there's algae
that grows out here and all
585
00:39:58,060 --> 00:40:00,720
of that stuff accumulates in these little holes,
586
00:40:00,730 --> 00:40:04,300
and because it's black, it
absorbs the sun's heat more
587
00:40:04,310 --> 00:40:05,810
than the surrounding ice does.
588
00:40:05,820 --> 00:40:08,050
And all over the surface of the ice sheet,
589
00:40:08,060 --> 00:40:10,380
there's literally billions
590
00:40:10,390 --> 00:40:13,390
of these little cryoconite holes melting away
591
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:15,220
and filling up with water.
592
00:40:15,230 --> 00:40:17,840
And when you look down at those holes,
593
00:40:17,850 --> 00:40:20,170
what you can actually see
is these little bubbles
594
00:40:20,180 --> 00:40:29,220
of ancient air being released
as the ice sheet melts.
595
00:40:32,190 --> 00:40:34,350
The part of Greenland that's melting,
596
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:36,180
is out on the edges of the ice sheet.
597
00:40:36,190 --> 00:40:39,550
And that area is growing, and it's moving higher
598
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:40,800
up onto the ice sheet.
599
00:40:40,810 --> 00:40:44,300
As the climate changes in
that part of the world.
600
00:40:44,310 --> 00:40:46,720
You see, all this water, melting
601
00:40:46,730 --> 00:40:49,220
down through these swiss cheese
holes, you see it melting
602
00:40:49,230 --> 00:40:50,630
down through the channels,
603
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,220
from little channels into big channels.
604
00:40:52,230 --> 00:40:55,430
And eventually, everything drops vertically,
605
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:58,840
down through these big Moulin caverns.
606
00:40:58,850 --> 00:41:00,550
Goes down to the bottom of the ice sheet
607
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:02,550
and out into the ocean.
608
00:41:05,900 --> 00:41:06,840
Ordinarily,
609
00:41:06,860 --> 00:41:08,130
if you make climate a little warmer,
610
00:41:08,140 --> 00:41:09,760
the glacier shrinks a little bit.
611
00:41:09,770 --> 00:41:11,630
If you make the climate a little colder,
612
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:12,840
the glacier grows a little bit.
613
00:41:12,900 --> 00:41:16,920
And those two things kind
of work to maintain balance.
614
00:41:16,940 --> 00:41:19,220
But if it gets too warm,
and the ice gets too thin,
615
00:41:19,230 --> 00:41:23,340
it doesn't just respond just a
little bit, the volume drops.
616
00:41:23,350 --> 00:41:26,260
You cross that tipping point,
climate no longer matters.
617
00:41:26,270 --> 00:41:29,880
It's irreversible-- it's
just gonna keep going.
618
00:41:29,890 --> 00:41:32,550
The sea level rise that will happen
619
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,600
in my daughter's lifetimes,
will be somewhere between a foot
620
00:41:35,610 --> 00:41:36,920
in a half and a half and three feet.
621
00:41:36,940 --> 00:41:40,130
Minimum. That doesn't sound
like a lot if you live
622
00:41:40,140 --> 00:41:43,430
in the Rocky Mountains, but if
you live down in Chesapeake Bay,
623
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:45,600
along the Gulf Coast of the United States,
624
00:41:45,610 --> 00:41:48,340
in the Ganges flood plane
- that matters a lot.
625
00:41:48,350 --> 00:41:51,550
It matters in China, it matters in Indonesia.
626
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:55,930
A minimum of 150 million
people will be displaced--
627
00:41:55,940 --> 00:41:58,710
that's like approximately half
the size of the United States.
628
00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:01,430
And all of those people are
going to be flushed out and have
629
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,840
to move somewhere else.
630
00:42:03,900 --> 00:42:08,010
It also intensifies the impact
of hurricanes and typhoons.
631
00:42:08,020 --> 00:42:11,090
It means that there's a lot
more high water along the coast
632
00:42:11,100 --> 00:42:13,340
lines, so when these big storms come,
633
00:42:13,350 --> 00:42:17,260
it pushes that much more water
that much further inland.
634
00:42:18,390 --> 00:42:19,840
That's where our story
635
00:42:19,850 --> 00:42:21,760
of Greenland Climate Change is expressed,
636
00:42:21,770 --> 00:42:24,550
it's in that melt water,
rushing out to the ocean.
637
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:27,420
That's what we're photographing;
that's what I've been
638
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,550
up there trying to document.
639
00:43:03,650 --> 00:43:05,930
You know, I've
seen this thing from your photos
640
00:43:05,940 --> 00:43:08,380
and sat pictures, but to
be here, it's incredible.
641
00:43:08,390 --> 00:43:12,430
It's all becoming a little more real.
642
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:15,140
While we're heading over, why don't I walk over
643
00:43:15,150 --> 00:43:16,800
and give you some scale?
644
00:43:16,820 --> 00:43:18,170
Sure.
645
00:43:18,180 --> 00:43:21,050
Just be careful, don't get too
close to the edge, alright?
646
00:43:21,060 --> 00:43:23,180
Stay up where it's flat.
647
00:43:24,650 --> 00:43:27,670
This is really something.
648
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:31,050
This is terrifying.
649
00:43:31,060 --> 00:43:33,640
This isn't a 10 foot
little hole in the ground,
650
00:43:33,650 --> 00:43:37,630
it's 100 feet deep into an abyss.
651
00:43:37,650 --> 00:43:40,470
If you don't have that,
that little dot of a person
652
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,300
for scale, then it's lost.
653
00:43:43,310 --> 00:43:45,180
That is fabulous.
654
00:43:45,190 --> 00:43:47,760
This is a reasonable route right here.
655
00:43:47,780 --> 00:43:48,710
Look at that.
656
00:43:48,720 --> 00:43:49,720
Oh yeah.
657
00:43:49,730 --> 00:43:50,800
That's like a gift.
658
00:43:50,810 --> 00:43:51,550
This is the danger spot.
659
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:52,390
Yeah.
660
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:53,510
For sure.
661
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:54,550
Well, and the other danger is
662
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:55,970
that the whole thing suddenly implodes
663
00:43:55,980 --> 00:43:57,260
and the entire thing collapses,
664
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,970
but I don't think that's very likely.
665
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:05,640
This moulin is
one of thousands of moulins all
666
00:44:05,650 --> 00:44:07,960
over the melt zone in Greenland and everyday,
667
00:44:07,970 --> 00:44:09,720
the ice is cooking down,
668
00:44:09,730 --> 00:44:12,050
and water is pouring into the ice sheet.
669
00:44:12,060 --> 00:44:13,850
It's enormous, you can't wrap your head
670
00:44:13,900 --> 00:44:19,010
around how much water is coming off this place.
671
00:44:19,060 --> 00:44:23,550
You got it.
672
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:31,880
Adam, have you ever done something
673
00:44:31,890 --> 00:44:34,010
like this before?
674
00:44:34,020 --> 00:44:36,350
No. Not at all.
675
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,170
It's all calculated risks.
676
00:44:49,230 --> 00:44:51,300
It's not like we're just going out there
677
00:44:51,310 --> 00:44:59,380
and playing Russian Roulette.
678
00:44:59,390 --> 00:45:01,470
Piece o'cake.
679
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:08,550
Ohhh, there's all sorts of curios crinkling
680
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:11,050
and crunching effects in my knee.
681
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:18,840
Just not what the doctor ordered.
682
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:25,180
Alright. Look down!
683
00:45:31,060 --> 00:45:32,220
Look down?
684
00:45:32,230 --> 00:45:33,720
Look! Down!
685
00:45:33,730 --> 00:45:39,260
It's just bottomless...
686
00:45:39,270 --> 00:45:42,680
Oh my God.
687
00:45:42,690 --> 00:45:46,180
I do not want to go any lower than this.
688
00:45:46,230 --> 00:45:48,630
I'm going out here on this broken fin.
689
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:53,340
Okay? And I don't, I
assume it won't collapse.
690
00:46:08,930 --> 00:46:09,840
Okay.
691
00:46:09,850 --> 00:46:11,260
All done!
692
00:46:11,270 --> 00:46:13,550
Oh thank God!
693
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:16,180
Fantastic!
694
00:46:27,930 --> 00:46:32,430
There were audible chunks
of gravel like substances
695
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:35,010
that I could feel rolling around in there.
696
00:46:35,060 --> 00:46:37,340
The bionic man.
697
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:40,550
I was covering up the soreness
with anti-inflammatories
698
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:42,840
and pain killers so that I
could function in the field
699
00:46:42,900 --> 00:46:45,300
and I would think, ah, that's
pretty good-- not so bad.
700
00:46:45,310 --> 00:46:48,300
Not realizing that the drugs
were masking the symptoms way
701
00:46:48,310 --> 00:46:50,840
more than I had realized.
702
00:46:51,850 --> 00:46:52,550
Bye babe.
703
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:53,890
I love you.
704
00:46:53,900 --> 00:46:57,880
I love you too.
705
00:47:08,770 --> 00:47:10,010
More
706
00:47:10,020 --> 00:47:11,510
and more people are becoming
increasingly skeptical
707
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:13,510
about the existence of climate change.
708
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:15,760
These so called
climate scientists are
709
00:47:15,770 --> 00:47:17,960
hoodwinking the entire world community.
710
00:47:17,970 --> 00:47:20,220
There is no consensus, this is a myth.
711
00:47:20,230 --> 00:47:21,760
The notion that man made gas,
712
00:47:21,770 --> 00:47:25,350
this anthropogenic gas, this C02
cause global warming is probably
713
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:27,130
the greatest hoax ever perpetrated
714
00:47:27,150 --> 00:47:28,170
on the American people.
715
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:37,380
All of this garbage science has
been a total fraud and a fake!
716
00:47:40,180 --> 00:47:41,970
Jim was told after his surgery
717
00:47:41,980 --> 00:47:44,100
that hiking is not a form of exercise
718
00:47:44,110 --> 00:47:46,340
that they want him to pursue anymore.
719
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:55,350
I'm not sure that's sunken in quite yet.
720
00:47:57,470 --> 00:48:00,380
I think, when we started out,
721
00:48:00,390 --> 00:48:02,260
the glacier was approximately right here.
722
00:48:02,270 --> 00:48:04,470
It might of been there, it might of been here;
723
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:07,010
but it's in this zone somewhere.
724
00:48:12,060 --> 00:48:13,600
Look. Look at this.
725
00:48:13,610 --> 00:48:17,710
In '05, you couldn't even look
into the canyon back there,
726
00:48:17,720 --> 00:48:19,920
look, it was all filled up to that point.
727
00:48:19,930 --> 00:48:23,850
And look how, look how low it is now.
728
00:48:32,020 --> 00:48:38,510
Beautiful.
729
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:44,180
And that's 2007--
that isn't even 2005.
730
00:48:44,190 --> 00:48:48,630
In 2007, just two years
ago, you couldn't see any
731
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:50,470
of that mountain ridge over there.
732
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:53,010
The thing has deflated tremendously, I mean,
733
00:48:53,020 --> 00:48:56,010
I don't know what the number
of feet is, but, it's a lot.
734
00:48:56,070 --> 00:49:00,130
If I hadn't seen it in the pictures,
735
00:49:00,140 --> 00:49:02,340
I wouldn't believe it at all.
736
00:49:24,110 --> 00:49:28,090
When I saw that
glacier dying, it was like, wow.
737
00:49:28,100 --> 00:49:29,170
You know we, uh...
738
00:49:29,230 --> 00:49:32,930
If a glacier that's been here for 30,000 years,
739
00:49:32,940 --> 00:49:37,090
or 100,000 years is literally
dying in front of my eyes,
740
00:49:37,110 --> 00:49:45,760
you're very aware of the fact that...
741
00:49:45,770 --> 00:49:50,970
You know, sometime you um...
742
00:49:50,980 --> 00:50:06,170
sometime you go out over the
horizon and you don't come back.
743
00:50:10,060 --> 00:50:13,340
James is now
doing exactly what his doctors
744
00:50:13,350 --> 00:50:16,710
said he shouldn't be doing.
745
00:50:22,730 --> 00:50:23,640
Lower.
746
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:33,970
Oh, man.
747
00:50:33,980 --> 00:50:36,880
A little more...
748
00:50:36,900 --> 00:50:37,630
Okay...
749
00:50:42,060 --> 00:50:44,140
Yes...there you go.
750
00:50:56,110 --> 00:50:58,590
It feels worse this morning
751
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:02,050
than it has any day since the surgery.
752
00:51:02,060 --> 00:51:04,800
It felt better the three days after the surgery
753
00:51:04,810 --> 00:51:06,710
than it feels right now.
754
00:51:06,730 --> 00:51:12,510
I think that the best that
can be said about this is,
755
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:14,260
ah I'm a safety liability.
756
00:51:14,270 --> 00:51:18,010
Well, you can
maybe limp your way up, but...
757
00:51:18,060 --> 00:51:19,840
you can't go down that.
758
00:51:19,890 --> 00:51:21,050
Unless you're in a wheelchair.
759
00:51:21,060 --> 00:51:24,680
I mean, we need to go up there--
760
00:51:24,690 --> 00:51:27,300
check on the camera, and all of that, but...
761
00:51:27,310 --> 00:51:29,550
but you don't necessarily need to do it.
762
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:31,380
I mean, that's more of a climb
763
00:51:31,390 --> 00:51:33,340
than we did in the past two days.
764
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:35,260
I have a hard
time letting ideas go, you know?
765
00:51:35,270 --> 00:51:37,260
Well here's another thing.
766
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:38,760
That's why your knee's like this.
767
00:51:38,770 --> 00:51:40,180
Okay.
768
00:51:40,190 --> 00:51:43,090
I'm inclined to think that you
guys should at least go and look
769
00:51:43,100 --> 00:51:44,850
at one of the cameras
- get it downloaded,
770
00:51:44,900 --> 00:51:46,670
get the computer changed today.
771
00:51:46,730 --> 00:51:47,420
Okay?
772
00:51:47,430 --> 00:51:48,130
Yep.
773
00:51:48,140 --> 00:51:52,010
Enough
774
00:51:55,730 --> 00:52:04,510
See the route?
775
00:52:11,770 --> 00:52:12,930
Okay.
776
00:52:12,940 --> 00:52:22,300
Hold on. See if you
can get in there.
777
00:52:22,310 --> 00:52:24,350
That's it!
778
00:52:29,770 --> 00:52:32,840
Let's get out of here.
779
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:40,840
Every once in a while,
780
00:52:40,890 --> 00:52:42,840
I get this thing in the back of my head saying,
781
00:52:42,850 --> 00:52:44,510
what were you thinking?
782
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:47,800
Maybe that office job wasn't so bad.
783
00:52:49,100 --> 00:52:50,340
But...
784
00:52:50,390 --> 00:52:52,010
The sandwiches are better here.
785
00:52:52,020 --> 00:52:53,050
The after the sandwich,
786
00:52:53,060 --> 00:52:55,310
I'm totally happy to be here.
787
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:57,460
This project is...
788
00:52:57,470 --> 00:52:59,760
now we're two years in.
789
00:52:59,770 --> 00:53:02,680
We have like, hundreds of thousands of images.
790
00:53:02,730 --> 00:53:03,850
It feels like, yeah,
791
00:53:03,860 --> 00:53:05,680
he goes to that point where he can't anymore
792
00:53:05,730 --> 00:53:07,920
and sometimes you even feel
he's going even further.
793
00:53:07,930 --> 00:53:09,840
Yeah and he speaks about it, he says, well,
794
00:53:09,850 --> 00:53:12,640
so I'll just do a fourth knee surgery, you know?
795
00:53:12,650 --> 00:53:16,010
Like, however many it takes to keep him going.
796
00:53:16,020 --> 00:53:18,510
Like most people say, I'm
going to get knee surgery
797
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:19,970
to fix me, kind of, you know?
798
00:53:19,980 --> 00:53:21,130
It's to make it better.
799
00:53:21,140 --> 00:53:23,850
But for him, it's to make
it better so he can keep
800
00:53:23,900 --> 00:53:26,800
on pushing it, destroying it, basically,
801
00:53:26,820 --> 00:53:35,850
and then maybe he'll just have to do it again.
802
00:53:40,100 --> 00:53:46,880
Okay Svav, you
ready for another exposure?
803
00:53:46,900 --> 00:53:51,260
Do it exactly as you just did it, okay?
804
00:53:51,270 --> 00:53:52,640
You ready?
805
00:53:52,650 --> 00:53:54,300
So as
quick as I can, I, I cover it.
806
00:53:54,310 --> 00:53:55,600
That's right.
807
00:53:55,610 --> 00:53:57,420
Way back, early in my career,
808
00:53:57,430 --> 00:53:59,800
I discovered that there was
really something special
809
00:53:59,810 --> 00:54:04,010
about photographing at
night, that places your mind
810
00:54:04,020 --> 00:54:12,680
on the surface of a planet.
811
00:54:12,690 --> 00:54:15,010
You're no longer just a human being walking
812
00:54:15,070 --> 00:54:16,300
around in the regular world.
813
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:21,590
You are a human animal,
striding around on the surface
814
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:27,630
of the planet that's out in
the middle of the galaxy.
815
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:29,880
We as a culture--
we're forgetting
816
00:54:29,890 --> 00:54:32,510
that we are actually natural organisms
817
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:34,890
and that we have this very, very deep connection
818
00:54:34,900 --> 00:54:36,630
and contact with, and contact with nature.
819
00:54:36,650 --> 00:54:40,180
You can't divorce civilization from nature.
820
00:54:40,190 --> 00:54:44,680
We totally depend on it.
821
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:24,550
Shortly after that,
822
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:28,340
he sent us on this month long, massive trip,
823
00:55:28,390 --> 00:55:31,800
to a place that's really hard to get to,
824
00:55:31,810 --> 00:55:36,140
to get a shot that's is just--
it was such a shot in the dark.
825
00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:41,840
The idea sprung from this
one glacier called Store.
826
00:55:41,900 --> 00:55:44,890
That event was so spectacular, we decided,
827
00:55:44,900 --> 00:55:48,220
okay we got to go back,
and go to the big glacier,
828
00:55:48,230 --> 00:55:51,510
Ilulissat glacier and sit.
829
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:55,100
And wait. We're going
to try to catch some...
830
00:55:55,110 --> 00:55:57,460
some big calving events.
831
00:55:57,470 --> 00:56:01,380
You know, kilometer wide pieces of ice coming
832
00:56:01,390 --> 00:56:05,430
of this massive, massive, glacier.
833
00:56:07,770 --> 00:56:09,220
The Ilulissat glacier in Greenland is kind
834
00:56:09,230 --> 00:56:10,970
of-- like the mother of all glaciers.
835
00:56:10,980 --> 00:56:13,050
It is the most productive glacier
836
00:56:13,060 --> 00:56:14,470
in the Norther Hemisphere.
837
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:17,420
It's rumored that this is the
glacier that put out the iceberg
838
00:56:17,430 --> 00:56:18,340
that sank the titanic.
839
00:56:18,350 --> 00:56:22,510
It flows at 130 feet every day.
840
00:56:26,970 --> 00:56:32,930
This is a really, really huge fjord of ice,
841
00:56:32,940 --> 00:56:41,680
and it's about five miles wide.
842
00:56:43,020 --> 00:56:45,800
That is massive.
843
00:56:45,820 --> 00:56:48,130
I totally lost him.
844
00:56:48,140 --> 00:56:49,510
You see him still?
845
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:50,800
He's going--
he's, he's about to turn on go
846
00:56:50,810 --> 00:56:52,640
in front of the peninsula
that we think's going to go.
847
00:56:52,650 --> 00:56:53,680
Oh, I see him.
848
00:56:53,730 --> 00:57:02,760
He's at the base of it.
849
00:57:04,230 --> 00:57:05,680
What's up?
850
00:57:05,690 --> 00:57:08,170
My boots are frozen.
851
00:57:08,230 --> 00:57:09,670
And I'm really tired.
852
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:13,050
And nothing happens.
853
00:57:13,060 --> 00:57:17,420
For days and days and days.
854
00:57:17,430 --> 00:57:19,300
We called it glacier watching.
855
00:57:19,310 --> 00:57:20,720
Because literally, it was just,
856
00:57:20,730 --> 00:57:26,210
me and Adam, for three weeks, watching ice.
857
00:57:39,850 --> 00:57:41,680
Photography for me has been--
858
00:57:41,690 --> 00:57:45,560
as much as anything-- about
a raising of awareness.
859
00:57:45,570 --> 00:57:48,510
Through that camera, you
know, we become vehicles
860
00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:52,470
to raise awareness outside my own experience.
861
00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:58,840
And in this case, we're the messengers.
862
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:12,340
He is a visionary,
863
00:58:12,350 --> 00:58:15,260
and his works are like sacred objects.
864
00:58:15,270 --> 00:58:16,670
I present James Balog.
865
00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:20,930
Thank you so much.
866
00:58:20,940 --> 00:58:23,100
Can we dim the house lights a little bit more?
867
00:58:23,110 --> 00:58:24,510
That's it, better.
868
00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:27,630
Okay. What I'm here
to do tonight is bring
869
00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:31,760
to you tangible, visual
evidence of the immediacy
870
00:58:31,770 --> 00:58:33,760
of climate change itself.
871
00:58:33,770 --> 00:58:36,760
Glaciers matter because they're the canary
872
00:58:36,780 --> 00:58:38,130
in the global coal mine.
873
00:58:38,140 --> 00:58:40,510
It's the place where you can
see climate change happening.
874
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:42,340
And without further adieu,
875
00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:44,890
let me tell you what we've
been seeing out there.
876
00:58:44,900 --> 00:58:47,550
This is a glacier called the Solheim Glacier,
877
00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:48,590
we're looking down on it.
878
00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:52,470
Now we turn on our time lapse.
879
00:59:00,980 --> 00:59:02,510
You can see the terminus retreating,
880
00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:04,180
you can see this river being formed,
881
00:59:04,190 --> 00:59:08,220
you can see it deflating.
882
00:59:08,230 --> 00:59:10,760
You go back a couple years, in time...
883
00:59:10,770 --> 00:59:11,760
That's where it started.
884
00:59:11,770 --> 00:59:15,260
That's where it ended a few months ago.
885
00:59:15,270 --> 00:59:19,420
Now down onto the side of the glacier,
886
00:59:19,430 --> 00:59:24,930
looking across the terminus.
887
00:59:24,940 --> 00:59:25,670
This is what we see.
888
00:59:25,690 --> 00:59:26,670
Look at this.
889
00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:28,090
You'll see deflation happening here
890
00:59:28,100 --> 00:59:29,720
as heat takes away the surface
891
00:59:29,730 --> 00:59:31,550
of the glacier, the surface drops.
892
00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:34,350
At the same time, a stream is undercutting it
893
00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:36,840
from a glacier that's melting faster up valley,
894
00:59:36,850 --> 00:59:39,420
washing this thing away.
895
00:59:48,730 --> 00:59:52,840
The vast majority of glaciers
in the world are retreating.
896
00:59:52,850 --> 00:59:55,510
Glacier National Park
Montana will need a new name.
897
00:59:55,570 --> 00:59:58,510
We'll be calling it glacier-less
national park by the middle
898
00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:02,510
of the century because all
the glaciers will be gone.
899
01:00:02,520 --> 01:00:04,890
There's such a strange, bizarre fascination
900
01:00:04,900 --> 01:00:07,340
in seeing these things you don't normally get
901
01:00:07,350 --> 01:00:10,260
to see-- - come alive.
902
01:00:17,350 --> 01:00:20,550
We're up at the Columbia glacier
in Alaska, this is a view
903
01:00:20,560 --> 01:00:21,800
of what's called a calving face.
904
01:00:21,810 --> 01:00:24,010
This is what one of our cameras saw
905
01:00:24,060 --> 01:00:30,970
over a course of a few months.
906
01:00:30,980 --> 01:00:34,010
The action at Columbia is in part,
907
01:00:34,020 --> 01:00:35,640
due to local glacier dynamics
908
01:00:35,650 --> 01:00:39,970
and in part due to climate change.
909
01:00:39,980 --> 01:00:41,760
Here's another time-laps
shot of Columbia.
910
01:00:41,770 --> 01:00:45,310
And everybody says well don't
they advance in the wintertime?
911
01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:47,090
No, it was retreating through the winter
912
01:00:47,100 --> 01:00:49,470
because it's an unhealthy glacier.
913
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:54,510
We realized it was retreating
so far we had to turn the camera
914
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:56,130
up stream to follow the retreat.
915
01:00:56,150 --> 01:00:59,130
Then, we had to pivot it again.
916
01:01:13,560 --> 01:01:16,670
And then, when we went back
this past August, it was so far
917
01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:19,340
out of frame we had to turn
the camera one more time
918
01:01:19,390 --> 01:01:23,260
so that we could still see the glacier.
919
01:01:29,770 --> 01:01:32,180
So that's where we started three
years ago way out on the left,
920
01:01:32,230 --> 01:01:34,510
that's where we were a few
months ago last time we were
921
01:01:34,570 --> 01:01:38,300
into Columbia.
922
01:01:54,610 --> 01:01:55,590
We're going to have
923
01:01:55,610 --> 01:01:58,380
to collapse it ---
put rocks over it.
924
01:01:58,390 --> 01:01:59,510
It's ripping too.
925
01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:02,720
We got to collapse it now.
926
01:02:09,350 --> 01:02:11,390
James Balog is documenting the melting
927
01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:13,350
of glaciers around the world.
928
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:16,420
The most visible manifestations
of climate change on the planet.
929
01:02:16,430 --> 01:02:20,430
And he's making it possible
for scientists to watch too.
930
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:21,800
James Balog is founder
931
01:02:21,810 --> 01:02:24,260
and director of the Extreme
Ice Survey he's joining us now
932
01:02:24,270 --> 01:02:26,170
from Denver, James, thanks for being with us.
933
01:02:26,190 --> 01:02:27,510
My pleasure, thank you.
934
01:02:27,520 --> 01:02:29,300
We'll also have
more on our special report
935
01:02:29,310 --> 01:02:32,260
on a man who lets his pictures do the talking
936
01:02:32,270 --> 01:02:34,390
As a photographer, it's exciting
937
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:36,880
to see this stuff, but as
a citizen of the world,
938
01:02:36,890 --> 01:02:38,590
you go, this is horrible.
939
01:02:38,600 --> 01:02:40,180
And consider who NASA is sending
940
01:02:40,230 --> 01:02:43,140
as a delegate to the climate
change summit in Copenhagen.
941
01:02:43,150 --> 01:02:47,010
Jim Balog, a photographer with
the group Extreme Ice Survey.
942
01:02:47,060 --> 01:02:48,170
Prior to '06--
943
01:02:48,230 --> 01:02:51,180
This glacier had retreated 10, 11 miles.
944
01:02:51,190 --> 01:02:54,470
And, now we've added just in the past few years,
945
01:02:54,480 --> 01:02:57,170
another two and a half miles.
946
01:02:57,180 --> 01:02:58,260
One of
the things you often hear
947
01:02:58,270 --> 01:03:00,180
in the debate about glacier change is
948
01:03:00,230 --> 01:03:01,840
that there are glaciers around the world
949
01:03:01,850 --> 01:03:03,180
which are also getting bigger
950
01:03:03,230 --> 01:03:05,390
and advancing, so, how can that be?
951
01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:09,550
How can that be a response
to a global warming signal?
952
01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:12,010
What we've done recently on the
Yukon territory in Canada ---
953
01:03:12,020 --> 01:03:16,210
where we looked at the change in
glacier area from 1958 to 2008.
954
01:03:16,230 --> 01:03:19,880
And what we found was, of the
1,400 glaciers that were there
955
01:03:19,890 --> 01:03:23,010
in 1958, four got bigger.
956
01:03:23,060 --> 01:03:27,420
Over 300 disappeared completely, and almost all
957
01:03:27,430 --> 01:03:30,090
of the rest got smaller.
958
01:03:30,100 --> 01:03:32,930
Yes, there is a component of natural variability
959
01:03:32,940 --> 01:03:37,050
in the climate change we
observe, but, it's not enough
960
01:03:37,060 --> 01:03:39,340
to explain the full signal.
961
01:03:39,390 --> 01:03:42,140
So there has to be a
greenhouse gas element to it.
962
01:03:42,150 --> 01:03:45,840
Up to the
Ilulissat Glacier calving face.
963
01:03:45,900 --> 01:03:48,300
A little helicopter is shown for scale.
964
01:03:48,310 --> 01:03:51,300
The Atlantic Ocean is on
the left side of the frame,
965
01:03:51,310 --> 01:03:53,010
covered with icebergs so thick,
966
01:03:53,020 --> 01:04:00,680
that you could walk across the ocean...
967
01:04:01,850 --> 01:04:03,350
I'm on the phone with Jim,
968
01:04:03,400 --> 01:04:07,800
on one of our regular check-ins,
Jim, just, nothing's happening.
969
01:04:07,810 --> 01:04:10,010
Hey Jim!
970
01:04:10,020 --> 01:04:11,340
Uh... it's going well.
971
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:14,640
We had some serious bouts of wind.
972
01:04:14,650 --> 01:04:20,050
But other than that, things
are fairly well set up here.
973
01:04:20,060 --> 01:04:22,140
We've got some continuous time lapse going.
974
01:04:22,150 --> 01:04:22,970
It's starting Adam, I think.
975
01:04:22,980 --> 01:04:24,010
Adam it's starting.
976
01:04:24,020 --> 01:04:24,930
Oh wait, Jim, Jim...
977
01:04:24,940 --> 01:04:27,340
The big piece is starting to calve.
978
01:04:27,390 --> 01:04:28,840
Let me call you back.
979
01:04:28,850 --> 01:04:30,590
Call him back.
980
01:04:30,600 --> 01:04:32,010
Okay.
Bye.
981
01:04:32,060 --> 01:04:34,510
Is it still going?
982
01:04:34,570 --> 01:04:35,340
Yeah.
983
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:37,510
In that V-section right there.
984
01:04:39,180 --> 01:04:42,640
Holy shit, look at that big berg rolling.
985
01:04:42,650 --> 01:04:44,010
All four are running, right?
986
01:04:44,060 --> 01:04:46,210
Yeah...
Look at that!
987
01:04:49,310 --> 01:04:50,340
Do you see how...
988
01:04:50,390 --> 01:04:52,390
look at the whole thing!
989
01:06:28,060 --> 01:06:32,140
The calving face was 300
sometimes 400 feet tall.
990
01:06:32,150 --> 01:06:33,220
Pieces of ice were shooting
991
01:06:33,230 --> 01:06:37,010
out of the ocean 600 feet and then falling.
992
01:06:37,060 --> 01:06:46,130
The only way you can try to put it into scale
993
01:06:47,390 --> 01:06:51,300
with human reference is
if you imagine Manhattan.
994
01:06:51,310 --> 01:06:55,010
All the sudden, all those
buildings just start to rumble
995
01:06:55,070 --> 01:06:58,010
and quake and peel off and just fall over,
996
01:06:58,060 --> 01:07:00,220
fall over and roll around.
997
01:07:01,350 --> 01:07:05,170
This whole massive city, just breaking apart
998
01:07:05,230 --> 01:07:07,800
in front of your eyes.
999
01:07:16,430 --> 01:07:17,550
We're just observers.
1000
01:07:17,560 --> 01:07:20,630
These two little dots on
the side of the mountain
1001
01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:24,140
and we watched and recorded the largest,
1002
01:07:24,150 --> 01:07:27,840
witnessed calving event ever caught on tape.
1003
01:07:31,230 --> 01:07:33,350
So how big was this calving event
1004
01:07:33,400 --> 01:07:34,430
that we just looked at?
1005
01:07:34,440 --> 01:07:36,170
We'll resort to some illustrations again
1006
01:07:36,180 --> 01:07:37,510
to give you a sense of scale.
1007
01:07:37,520 --> 01:07:45,340
It's as if the entire lower
tip of Manhattan broke off,
1008
01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:49,760
except that, the thickness--
the height of it-- is equivalent
1009
01:07:49,770 --> 01:07:51,340
to buildings that are two and a half
1010
01:07:51,350 --> 01:08:00,380
or three times higher than they are.
1011
01:08:09,020 --> 01:08:13,220
That's a magical, miraculous,
horrible, scary thing.
1012
01:08:13,230 --> 01:08:16,800
I don't know that anybody's
really seen the miracle
1013
01:08:16,810 --> 01:08:21,640
and horror of that.
1014
01:08:21,650 --> 01:08:23,300
It took a hundred years for it
1015
01:08:23,310 --> 01:08:26,960
to retreat eight miles
- from 1900 to 2000.
1016
01:08:26,970 --> 01:08:30,800
From 2000 to 2010, it retreated nine miles.
1017
01:08:30,810 --> 01:08:33,180
So in 10 years, it retreated more
1018
01:08:33,230 --> 01:08:37,800
than it had in the previous 100.
1019
01:08:37,810 --> 01:08:39,010
It's real.
1020
01:08:39,020 --> 01:08:41,470
The changes are happening;
they're very visible,
1021
01:08:41,480 --> 01:08:44,060
they're photographable, they're measurable.
1022
01:08:44,070 --> 01:08:47,670
There's no significant
scientific dispute about that.
1023
01:08:47,730 --> 01:08:50,510
And the great irony and tragedy
of our time is that a lot
1024
01:08:50,560 --> 01:08:51,840
of the general public thinks
1025
01:08:51,900 --> 01:08:54,390
that science is still arguing about that.
1026
01:08:54,400 --> 01:08:56,170
Science is not arguing about that.
1027
01:08:56,180 --> 01:08:58,340
One of
the really troubling things
1028
01:08:58,390 --> 01:09:01,890
about climate change is that almost all
1029
01:09:01,900 --> 01:09:05,500
of the world's prestigious
climatologist are much more
1030
01:09:05,570 --> 01:09:08,090
frightened about all this than the public is.
1031
01:09:08,100 --> 01:09:11,260
People have
a hard time understanding
1032
01:09:11,270 --> 01:09:13,760
when we talk about climate change.
1033
01:09:13,770 --> 01:09:17,010
What for me is so powerful
and actually unprecedented
1034
01:09:17,060 --> 01:09:20,800
in the work that he is doing,
is visualizing the change
1035
01:09:20,810 --> 01:09:27,010
that allows us to actually see
what was and what is become.
1036
01:09:27,020 --> 01:09:29,800
I actually saw his work last spring
1037
01:09:29,810 --> 01:09:33,680
and that kind of changed my
life in the sense that I had
1038
01:09:33,730 --> 01:09:36,840
to quit what I was doing,
which was working for Shell,
1039
01:09:36,850 --> 01:09:42,890
and get involved in this debate
in a much more profound way.
1040
01:09:42,900 --> 01:09:44,390
The Extreme Ice Survey will go
1041
01:09:44,400 --> 01:09:47,880
down in history as this is the evidence
1042
01:09:47,890 --> 01:09:51,840
that we knew what was going on.
1043
01:09:51,850 --> 01:09:54,430
You can't deny it!
1044
01:09:59,730 --> 01:10:01,800
We don't have a problem with economics,
1045
01:10:01,810 --> 01:10:03,930
technology and public policy.
1046
01:10:03,940 --> 01:10:05,760
We have a problem with perception.
1047
01:10:05,780 --> 01:10:08,880
Because not enough people really get it yet.
1048
01:10:08,890 --> 01:10:11,340
I believe we really have
an opportunity right now.
1049
01:10:11,350 --> 01:10:14,010
We are nearly on the edge of a crisis,
1050
01:10:14,020 --> 01:10:18,340
but we still have an opportunity
to face the greatest challenge
1051
01:10:18,390 --> 01:10:21,050
of our generation, and in fact, of our century.
1052
01:10:21,060 --> 01:10:23,550
Thank you.
1053
01:10:49,060 --> 01:10:53,010
When my daughters, Simone and
Emily, look at me 25 or 30 years
1054
01:10:53,020 --> 01:10:57,920
from now and say, what were
you doing when, when...
1055
01:10:57,930 --> 01:10:59,510
global warming was happening
1056
01:10:59,520 --> 01:11:02,390
and you guys knew what was coming down the road.
1057
01:11:02,400 --> 01:11:04,100
I want to be able to say, guys,
1058
01:11:04,110 --> 01:11:07,170
I was doing everything I knew how to do.
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01:11:08,305 --> 01:11:14,629
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