Photographer James Balog and his team were checking out a glacier when something strange was caught on camera.
The event happened in Greenland, where James and his colleagues were collecting footage from cameras that had been set up around the Arctic Circle over the years.
James and his team were hunting for some nice photos for an upcoming film, but no one was expecting what happened next.
Despite the fact that American photographer James Balog specialized in environmental photography, he did not accept climate change for a long time.
In reality, he mocked experts about global warming for over two decades.
“I didn’t believe people were capable of influencing the fundamental physics and chemistry of this vast globe.” “It didn’t seem realistic or conceivable,” Balog explains.
It wasn’t until 2005 that Balog discovered something was wrong when studying how climate change affects ecosystems. During a trip to the Arctic to take pictures for National Geographic, he saw the destruction for himself.
Balogs’ video “Chasing Ice” appeared exactly 10 years later, and he planned to chronicle glacier melting with an army of cameras.And it was in this environment that Balog captured one of the most breathtaking sights ever captured on film.
Balog and his colleagues saw a section of glacier the size of Lower Manhattan collapse into the ocean in less than an hour and 15 minutes.
The historic occurrence has been entered into the Guinness Book of Records, demonstrating how bad the situation is for the Earth’s climate.
It was, as far as anybody knows, an unparalleled geological tragedy. Sadly, it is not likely to be the last of its sort.
The Arctic was 20 degrees warmer than usual in November 2016, which was significantly warmer than even scientific models expected.
However, if we do not reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2070, we will face tragedy. On the bright side, we still have a chance to make it happen.
Hopefully, this movie will persuade more people of the gravity of the problem, and we can all work together to change the trend!
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