Tag: James Balog

NASA confirms accelerated Glacial Melting BELOW the Surface.

Most of us know that Most Glaciers ARE Melting. Here are some stats:

A Reply to the Attacks on Climate Change Science

The science is sound and the glaciers are shrinking, says the Union of Concerned Scientists.

02/10/2010

A 2005 global survey of 442 glaciers from the World Glacier Monitoring Service found that only 26 were advancing, 18 were stationary, and 398 were retreating. Overall, about 90 percent of the world’s glaciers that scientists have measured are shrinking as the planet warms.

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And here’s what a shrinking glacier looks like using time-lapse photography, to speed up the action …



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The Canary In The Coal Mine: Climate Change in Time Lapse Photography

Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss: James Balog on TED.com

Ninety five percent of the glaciers in the world are retreating or shrinking… there is no scientific dispute about that

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. (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2009, July 2009 in Oxford, England. Duration: 19:22)