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Assignment 4 Chasing Ice

 

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 “CHASINGICE” VIDEOhttps://archive.org/details/chasing.ice.2012

  1. What is the name of the award-winning photographer who is the subject of this documentary?

 

  1. In what famous magazines have his photos appeared? What were some of his books about?

 

  1. On what glacier and in what country did he begin his quest to document glacier retreat with “before and after” shots?

 

  1. What name did they call their big project to document many glaciers retreating?

 

  1. What event did they capture on film on Store Glacier in Iceland? How big was it?

 

  1. How many different cameras did they eventually place, and in what places were they located?

 

  1. He was originally a skeptic of climate change. What caused him to change his views? How do these things record ancient climate?

 

  1. What have the insurers and re-insurers discovered about the trends in weather-related disasters?

 

  1. Explain his analogy of the dentists and the bad tooth. How does it apply to climate scientists?

 

  1. When they first returned to their cameras after 6 months, what did they find? What was the problem?

 

  1. What is the “trim line”? What does it tell us about the thickness of a glacier?

 

  1. What medical issues limited his ability to hike to his cameras?

 

  1. What are cryoconite holes? How are they formed? How do they change the albedo of the ice?

 

  1. What are moulins? What do they tell us about the melting of the ice sheets?

 

  1. Climate deniers say that some glaciers are advancing, therefore climate isn’t changing. What percentage are actually doing so? What percentage of glaciers are gone or in retreat?

 

  1. What event did his crew capture on Ilulisat Glacier while talking on the satellite phone? How big was it?

 

  1. What did the oil company employee decide to do when he watched Balog’s presentation?

 

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Assignment 4 Chasing Ice Answer

  1. What is the name of the award-winning photographer who is the subject of this documentary?

Answer: James Balog

  1. In what famous magazines have his photos appeared? What were some of his books about?

Answer: Time Magazine, National Geographic, Smithsonian, Audubon. Some of his books were about people hunting and endangered wildlife.

  1. On what glacier and in what country did he begin his quest to document glacier retreat with “before and after” shots?

Answer: Solheim Glacier (Sunhouse Glacier) in Iceland

 

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