Evidence Of The Extreme Climate Cha

Evidence Of The Extreme Climate Change

well only in america is a controversial for me to begin tonight's program by declaring that global warming is really happening for doubters 332 straight months have above-average temperatures is not proof enough and even among believers there's a fight over who to blame god or man natural cycles are fossil fuels the very words climate change were noticeably absent from this past election but sandy brought them back in a big way and eager to fuel the conversation to artists convinced that they can help skeptics see climate change and weighs scientists cannot if you drive outside a Juneau Alaska and paddle across this gorgeous lake past know that falls in through the blueberry color icebergs you will find Mendenhall Glacier or what's left of it so the ice came out to write about here in 2007 Wow yeah five years ago we will be will be bumping into English you right here yep every time you visit just right you myron in the James Bay law nature photographer jheel morphology just and reformed climate change sceptic honestly when I first heard about the man-made climate change story I certainly had a knee-jerk reflexive skepticism but the more he learned about ice the more he worried see more time you spend in the Arctic the more he saw ancient glaciers disappearing before his lens and the more he thought about his kids night imagine myself as an old man sitting on a rocking chair and I you're my daughter's saying to me you know what were you doing when this one the mental change was happening and so we launch the extreme ice survey an effort to capture the changing planet by placing time-lapse cameras the memories hope for the world and as you can see in thenew film chasing ice them that is no easy feat this news had two surgeries on it already between the palmy Singh godforsaken called wins and the fragile cameras it's the whole thing nearly killed him the electronics cost me years in my life terms things I D in tension high blood pressure is generally spokespeople thats interesting to know considering I've seen some love your critics online who say you're in this for the money yeah right well you know what they could do they can kiss my you know what abount the same time I but five years later here is just one small taste the fruits of his labor visual proof above Mendenhall's steady retreat now in the winter will this come back the retreat will tend to slow down in the wintertime okay maybe it even stabilizer creeps forward a tiny little bit but boy soon as the warming season comes back on but continues to gobble itself backwarde the satellite pictures back that up 679 half the Arctic sea ice is disappear and just this year four and a half million square miles melted away an area the size of the US and Mexico combined unit comes meanwhile back with jim was mounting his first ice cameras at artist in Brooklyn name Eve mosier was pushing the kinda machine used chalk lines on a ballfield after reading a scary 2001 prediction from nasa the climate change powered storms would wipe out entire neighborhoods she decided see which neighborhoods by marking the high water line around New York City this would be under water this would be dry so they'd be a little dry strip down the center the red and follow this water quote chart was gone by the time sandy hit with the line were right and in many places the damage exceeded her worst fears suddenly that wishy-washy conversation changed not so much when I told you so as I'm really sorry this had to happen you know the fact that it takes something so dressed despite the fact that his people in this administration know about its you know that it really takes us having a this role experience two shifts even conversation right much less actions America is the last developed nation still arguing overall love this on one side those with the faith that humans could never alter the planet so profoundly happy to agree are oil and coal companies and a political party strongly opposed to any new environmental regulations President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and the heal the planet my promise is to help you and your family the other side are 99 percent of climate scientists with PHD's and the president I am a firm believer that climate change Israel that is impacted by human behavior and carbon emissions and happy to agree are most have the insurance companies that ensure insurance companies like Munich re the German giant reported last month that North America is getting the worst of it as weather disasters cost thirty thousand lies and over a trillion dollars in the last thirty yearsas storms quintuoled and their warming clients to brace for much more as the melting accelerates 1984 the closure was down there eleven miles away today factor preceded miles glaciers retreating but it's also sitting at the same time it's like they're being let out a ballon you can see what's called the trim line it's the high-water mark at the glacier in 1984 that vertical change is the heir to the Empire State Building skeptics will know that on the other side of the planet from a log Antarctic ice is actually expanding to record levels but that is cold comfort when scientists explain that North Pole ice is melting eight times faster the South Pole ice can grow in the winter 25 times faster in the summer and so Eve who was traded her chart machine in for a stroll over the last couple years has agreed to revive her high water line project in Miami Philadelphia in London and James vows to keep those cameras snapping at least until the glaciers start growing and I like to be able to say girls I was doing everything that I do have to do with the skills that I have and that was witnessed tell the story in gay voice to this landscape sound the alarm sound the alarm you think we've reached a tipping point where people are hearing the alarm either you think it'll take a major disaster before the world locals gather well I'm afraid that it may take they are really serious unpleasant set up a vent before the world truly knuckles down and takes this seriously and does everything that we're already capable of doing yeah to mitigate but i hope that's not the case helper smarter than that then in