Documentary offers undeniable evidence of global warming
Lewis DiuguidThe documentary, “Chasing Ice,” should be in the mainstream movie theaters, running day and night to sold-out audiences.
Kansas City area residents, however, are made to feel fortunatel that the film at least has been playing at the Tivoli theater. Jeff Orlowski’s documentary follows nature photographer James Balog as he documents melting glaciers, beginning in 2007. Balog uses time-lapsed photography to chronicle the disappearing glaciers in Greenland, Montana, Alaska and other places on the planet.
The images are both beautiful and disturbing because the ice provides a delicate balance for the Earth’s ecosystem. Yet the glaciers are dying at a rapid pace.
More people need to see this film and come away with a new resolve to have a smaller carbon footprint — drive less, fly less, lower thermosthats and use less fossil fuels. The planet, which supports all life, is hurting, and nothing is being done to stop the pain.
JR Beillenhouser
4 months, 1 week agoThere is no scientific evidence to support your claims. Sure in one area of the world they are shrinking, but in other areas, they grow to record levels.
Yes, we’re are having another mild winter this year after a mild one last year. Before that it was a very cold snowy one.
What’s it doing in Russia and Eastern Europe this winter? Why don’t you do some research and let us know what you find out.
George Hunsucker
Northland
4 months, 1 week agoRussia’s cold winter does not fit the storyline JR, therefore, it is not mentioned.
Antartica does not fit the storyline either, ignore it.
What we need are more bureaucrats doing nothing but being rewarded for same in lewis’ world…..
Steve Alleman
Kansas City
4 months, 1 week agoThank god we have two highly educated scientists in George and JR to examine all the data and explain everything to us. I would hate to have to rely on the opinions of uninformed amateurs on this important topic.
George Hunsucker
Northland
4 months, 1 week agoyou mean like lewis steve????
Phil Cardarella
4 months, 1 week agoThe earth’s climate cannot be changing, since it snowed somewhere, right? In Russia, no less. (Hey. both Hitler and Napoleon were surprised, but everyone else seems to have noticed that snow in Russia is not an unusual occurance. Rent Doctor Zhivago.)
All those pointy-headed intellectuals must be engaged in a massive conspiracy, right? Thank God for experts like Rush and the guys at FOX News — Oh, and the “scientist” guys on the payroll of the Oil & Coal Companies — to give a “fair and balanced” explanation.
Of course, those who understand the difference between global climate change and the weather report for this weekend’s game tend to side with the academics.
FYI? Whether you believe in Genesis or evolution, Polar Bears are WHITE for a reason, and that reason involves large areas of ICE on which to hunt! Ice that seems to becoming in short supply. Think of them as big, furry canaries in our collective mineshaft called Earth.
JR Beillenhouser
4 months, 1 week agoPhil - you really want to talk about intellect. Aren’t you the guy who is a lawyer and claimed to not read the contract for the sale of your house?
Here is the science. Why don’t you try to find a peer reviewed paper that supports your side of the argument, here is mine.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released—chart-prove-it.html
Oh and I’d give this more credence than a documentary director.
Steve Alleman
Kansas City
4 months, 1 week agoJR apparently has no idea what “peer-reviewed paper” means. The Daily Mail is a peer-reviewed journal? Uh no, it’s a British tabloid. The report they um report on but never seem to actually cite comes from the ‘Met office,’ a British government agency, something like our NOAA, I gather. Their reports would not be peer-reviewed in any sense in which that term is commonly used among scientists.
The Met office responded to the article in the Mail here: http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/met-office-in-the-media-14-october-2012/
A sample: “Firstly, the Met Office has not issued a report on this issue.”
Back to you, JR. Drop some more science on us.