James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss
Posted on Dec 17, 2009 under Time Share |
http://www.ted.com Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change.
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December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
I have sketchy …
I have sketchy credentials and would love to be paid for distracting the general population. Why doesn’t anyone make me an offer? Hello? Anyone with a vested interest? Seriously, though, it’s a bad market for skilled theory assassins. Most of the junk we see nowadays can be debunked by simply inquiring about the raw data. That’s true of all sciences, not only climate. No need to hire anyone; it has become a DIY job.
December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
Aw, come on - not …
Aw, come on - not even the ice in my driveway does that during the spring melt.
December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
The only difference …
The only difference between your wood pellets and coal is time. They are both plant material.
December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
Flowing water …
Flowing water underneath the glacier is “lubricating” the flow??? Please, tell me from which scientific articles you got that so i can read them… and i really mean that with no disrespct. And I mean no disrespect by asking this, but are you a scientist or someone who does daily job and whos education include areas reagarding climate, geotehnical and geological and similar areas of studies? Same goes for user anoniab
December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
The wood pellets I …
The wood pellets I put in my stove are “fossil fuel”?
December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
Or what was going …
Or what was going on under and above the glacier to cause the accelerated flow. There is more flowing water underneath the ice, lubricating the flow, and there’s less ice accumulating on top of the glacier, making it lighter. Lighter, more slippery = faster glacier.
December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
The truth is, we do …
The truth is, we do know, but there are people with a vested financial interest in ignoring climate change, and they will hire people with sketchy credentials to say what they need inserted into the discourse to confuse and distract the general population.
December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
well, i will admit …
well, i will admit that i dont have a wast knowledge of this topic but im not pretending to be an expert like some morons (like a. jones) who think that they are right. There are a lot of scientist who support global warming theory and those who dont. Last week I went to a seminar on my university and the conclusion was that it is a hoax. Then, the profesor who had the seminar, was being accused for missguiding people with incomplete data by some other guy. The truth is that we dont know… yet
December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
Nope, we didn’t …
Nope, we didn’t break the cycle; you are correct - we are in for cooling - it’s already started.
December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
Dilliboy63-they are …
Dilliboy63-they are going to create another crisis with their genetic engineering.
December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
“To have a 1 degree …
“To have a 1 degree temperature change”
Keep in mind those are averages, not real temps. It does not mean the temps are rising at the top end of the scale. A day in which the high was 73 and the low was 70 will have a higher “average” than a day that had 80 for a high and 60 for a low.
December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
“We do not control …
“We do not control nature, it controls us”
Exactly!!! The climate determines how much energy I must burn to keep warm:)
December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
Sure could use some …
Sure could use some in Iowa right now, lol.
December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
bamboocha923-do not …
bamboocha923-do not confuse the calving with melting. The melting took a great deal longer than 75 minutes; it took many years. And you need to consider what was going on at the other end of the glacier to cause it to increase its flow. He didn’t cover that in the video, did he? He only covered this end of the story. A little lopsidded, don’t you think?
December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
Take a look at the …
Take a look at the repeat photography of the Muir glacier and see what you get a short time after a glacier melts. Paradise!
December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
The planet doesn’t …
The planet doesn’t need saving.
December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
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johnstonalligator-yes, all this cold weather creates a need to burn things to keep warm. Btw - Coal is just fossilized plant material - so it doesn’t make any difference what you burn - it’s all “fossil fuel”
December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
Rubbish. Ever stop …
Rubbish. Ever stop to think who lived in the path of those glaciers and what they must have gone through with their homes in the way? The planet has been warming ever since the last ice age. We have nothing to do with it. Basic grade school science: Rotation of the planet on its axis, tilt of the earth, distance from the sun, and orbit of the planet around said sun. There’s no such thing as a “global average” temp
December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
Hey, thanks for the …
Hey, thanks for the link
December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
Great points! I …
Great points! I noticed he didn’t get the pictures of all the fresh water snow being dumped on the backside of that Greenland glacier that’s causing it to flow at a faster rate either. Regarding the Alaskan glaciers, there have been human artifacts found UNDER them, which means that glacier itself caused a “catastrophe” to whoever was living there; they apparently did what we need to do - adjust:)
December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
It’s not …
It’s not Ego-centrism for you to question the unanimous conclusion of hundreds of brilliant minds backed up by countless forms of data?
December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
Beautiful pictures, …
Beautiful pictures, but they show only the last couple of miles out of many hundreds. Glaciers are viscous flows with highly variable speed, and the speed at the front (as well as the front’s position) is determined by everything that happened along the glacier’s entire length (and inside the inland snow heap feeding it) during millenia. Go to googlearth and watch the uniformly parallel streaks of crushed rock on the glacier’s surface stretchng all the way from the source to the seashore.
December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
man made climate …
man made climate change is a HOAX
December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
Cool recordings!
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Cool recordings!
The planet has been heating and warming since its inception. Ego-centrism tells us we did it. Clamate Gaters tell us we do it by CO2.
Climate change happens. Ain’t nothing we can do to stop it. It will get colder soon enough. Maybe not where we NOW have glaciers, though. And maybe not in our lifetimes.
Change happens. Glaciers LIVE. They don’t just die. How can anyone claim otherwise?
We are seeing close-ups here, not the big picture.
December 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
NASA Study Shows …
NASA Study Shows Sun Responsible for Planet Warming watch?v=iVNg_J1HazY