Extreme Ice Survey
At this time of year, and especially on a year like this, you see the skies clear, the snow get dirty and melt away, and you strip down to your shirtsleves for mud free dirt riding on Peavine, it’s hard not to think about how the world is changing.
Sure, we have a young black president, but that president is going to sit through some big climate changes on this planet even if he’s only there for four years. These amazing time lapse videos and photographs from the Extreme Ice Survey are a sobering reminder of that change.
I’m waiting for Smella to get home, having a beer and whipping up some dinner. Then we’re going to watch the Nova Episode. Check it out…
I found this story on the NPR Most Emailed Stories Podcast for 03-19-2009. To get this episode, subscribe to the podcast in iTunes and then in the Podcasts window, expand it and select GET for this episode. Terry Gross interviewed James Balog on Fresh air. He was also on Morning Edition.
Yeah, this is going under the category of “holyfreakingcrap.”
-M
There is a great article in the last issue of National Geographic about 3 families who work to lower their CO2 output by half. It has some good stats, ideas, etc that you may want to employ if you are not already.
Great vid!
Thanks for posting this Wolfy. I was kayaking on Mendenhall Lake and hiking around Mendenhall Glacier-the only named glacier in this video-last September.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30968490@N04/2912704737/in/set-72157607742263201/
The Mendenhall Visitor’s Center was built in the 60′s, I believe, and looked directly onto the face of the glacier at that time. Now, some 40 years later, the face can hardly be viewed from that same Visitor’s Center. Inside the Visitor’s Center is an old school and Al Gore-ish graph showing the glacier’s terminus receding and advancing over hundreds of years. Without question, Mendenhall has been receeding at an alarming rate during the past few decades. Still, there is an average of 100 feet of snow that falls on the Juneau Icefeild annually, feeding the abundance of glaciers that melt away into oceans all too quickly these days.
mendenhall glacier looked as gray, foggy, wet and cold in the video as it was when we kayaked it..still it WAS beautiful…mom