Chasing Ice (2012) Edit

A dozen tornadoes have already been spotted

A drought of historic proportions has hit Nepal.

A little bit of retreat in the summer time;

A little helicopter is shown for scale.

A minimum of 150 million people will be displaced

A minor thing about whether man actually walked on the moon.

ABC NEWS ANCHOR (VO): It's hard not to be impressed

About a project before.

About climate change is that almost all

About Greenland's glaciers, about Greenland logistics,

About more statistical studies, more computer models,

About past temperature, and by looking at the air,

About photographing at night, that places your mind

About the existence of climate change.

Adam it's starting.

ADAM LEWINTER (CONT'D):

ADAM LEWINTER (CONT'D): Every once in a while,

ADAM LEWINTER (CONT'D): Hey Jim!

ADAM LEWINTER (CONT'D): Okay.

ADAM LEWINTER (CONT'D): We have over 2,300 frames.

ADAM LEWINTER (CONT'D): You got it.

ADAM LEWINTER: A little more...

ADAM LEWINTER: Again. Zebras again.

ADAM LEWINTER: And everything's working.

ADAM LEWINTER: For sure.

ADAM LEWINTER: He had spent a lot of many grants,

ADAM LEWINTER: He's at the base of it.

ADAM LEWINTER: He's going he's, he's about to turn on go

ADAM LEWINTER: I mean, we need to go up there

ADAM LEWINTER: I think it's a bird just kind

ADAM LEWINTER: I wasn't that into photography,

ADAM LEWINTER: I'm on the phone with Jim,

ADAM LEWINTER: It's all calculated risks.

ADAM LEWINTER: It's just bottomless...

ADAM LEWINTER: It's not the nicest environment

ADAM LEWINTER: Look down?

ADAM LEWINTER: Lower.

ADAM LEWINTER: No. Not at all.

ADAM LEWINTER: Oh thank God!

ADAM LEWINTER: Oh wait, Jim, Jim...

ADAM LEWINTER: Oh yeah.

ADAM LEWINTER: See the route?

ADAM LEWINTER: Shortly after that,

ADAM LEWINTER: That is massive.

ADAM LEWINTER: That was the turning point

ADAM LEWINTER: That's why your knee's like this.

ADAM LEWINTER: The after the sandwich,

ADAM LEWINTER: They have to withstand hurricane force winds.

ADAM LEWINTER: This is terrifying.

ADAM LEWINTER: This is the danger spot.

ADAM LEWINTER: This is what a fox does to your cables

ADAM LEWINTER: This moulin is one of thousands of moulins all

ADAM LEWINTER: We gotta be getting close.

ADAM LEWINTER: We worked with these guys

ADAM LEWINTER: We're going to have

ADAM LEWINTER: Well, you can maybe limp your way up, but...

ADAM LEWINTER: Yeah.

ADAM LEWINTER: Yeah... Look at that!

ADAM LEWINTER: Yep.

ADAM LEWINTER: You know, I've seen this thing from your photos

After all this, it just it makes me insane!

After months of trouble shooting,

After something that...

After that, we went on to Greenland.

Ah I'm a safety liability.

Ahhh man. Hello!

Ahhh, don't worry about it.

All done!

All four are running, right?

All of that obsession means absolutely nothing

All of this garbage science has been a total fraud and a fake!

All of this technical climbing gear

All the sudden, all those buildings just start to rumble

Along the Gulf Coast of the United States,

Alright. Look down!

Alright. This is the big one; Okay.

And advancing, so, how can that be?

And all of those people are going to be flushed out and have

And all over the surface of the ice sheet,

And animals are already going extinct.

And Antarctic ice sheets are these giant domes of ice

And anyone that can help you.

And anyone that can help you.

And as the climate continues to warm, we're going to loose more

And because it's black, it absorbs the sun's heat more

And carbon dioxide vary together.

And coal fired power plants.

And computer modeling and that just wasn't me.

And contact with, and contact with nature.

And director of the Extreme Ice Survey he's joining us now

And dumping out ever more ice and water into the ocean.

And endless beauty and endless magic in those faces and for me,

And filling up with water.

And get involved in this debate in a much more profound way.

And had it pointed right there, at that peninsula,

And had to wait for a whole season to check on them again

And has been cooling since 2002.

And he would come home at five o'clock?

And he's making it possible for scientists to watch too.

And his works are like sacred objects.

And horror of that.

And I eventually realized that the only thing that to me

And I was finishing my master's degree in Geomorphology.

And I would think, ah, that's pretty good not so bad.

And I'm really tired.

And ice core scientist can drill holes through the ice sheets

And in 10 minutes we're dead.

And in part due to climate change.

And in this case, we're the messengers.

And Irving Penn spent their entire careers doing portraits

And it really could use a third.

And it was clear to me, it would have to be a team effort.

And it's about five miles wide.

And it's stored right here.

And look how, look how low it is now.

And make sure they were working.

And more people are becoming increasingly skeptical

And much longer term that was about to unfold.

And nothing happens.

And now it's about 390 parts per million.

And now you have James with that same kind of eye.

And on top of it, there's algae that grows out here and all

And out into the ocean.

And over the last 800,000 years or so,

And pain killers so that I could function in the field

And playing Russian Roulette.

And pollinate their crops by hand.

And pull out a core and examine, not only the ice,

And quake and peel off and just fall over,

And re designed the controllers.

And sharing it effectively can change the world.

And shoot a single frame.

And so, when I had this idea to look at endangered wildlife,

And sometimes you even feel he's going even further.

And that area is growing, and it's moving higher

And that effects everything in the agriculture

And that kind of changed my life in the sense that I had

And that's 2007 that isn't even 2005.

And that's a high mortality in those forest areas.

And that's about 40 percent higher than it was

And that's exactly what happens in the climate system.

And that's what I love about James' work.

And that's when I though, okay, the story is in the ice.

And the entire thing collapses,

And the great irony and tragedy of our time is that a lot

And the water supply of all the plants and animals around us.

And then I learned about the record that's in the ice cores.

And then maybe he'll just have to do it again.

And there were a thousand little engineering details that needed

And they would shoot every hour as long as it was daylight.

And they're already doing that in China having to go out

And they're still big glaciers.

And those two things kind of work to maintain balance.

And today, it's back here.

And turn those individual frames into video clips

And um, I loved the science,

And wait. We're going to try to catch some...

And water is pouring into the ice sheet.

And we don't think that can happen during these little years

And we humans are causing it.

And we just had it rolling.

And we need to get these cameras out here.

And we would just see how the glacier changed in six months.

And we've seen hotter fires more extreme fires burning.

And what we found was, of the 1,400 glaciers that were there

And when you go out there, you want it to work,

And when you look down at those holes,

And yet we've seen so much stuff...

And you guys knew what was coming down the road.

And, interestingly, for the weather related events,

And, now we've added just in the past few years,

Are contributing to more intense and more events.

Are we going to be loosing the plants that clean our water?

Around in the regular world.

Around that glacier where I would just go back

Around wilderness that only images could do.

As a delegate to the climate change summit in Copenhagen.

As a guy who's been mountaineering

As a human being, it needs to continue, so.

As a wife, yes.

As Munich Re is a major reinsurer for natural perils,

As the climate changes in that part of the world.

As we're setting up the cameras, we also set up a video camera,

At hard for me to look at even today.

At looking at ice in that way.

At most, a couple weeks.

At National Geographic, and we sat down

At one of the cameras get it downloaded,

At the same time, a stream is undercutting it

Atmospheric carbon dioxide was never higher

Because I think they're more pictureeqse,

Because it has a simpler electronic circuitry inside it.

Because it was his first real encounter

Because it's an unhealthy glacier.

Because not enough people really get it yet.

Because people hadn't built this stuff before.

Because the change already has been so small, right?

BRIAN SUSSMAN: There is no consensus, this is a myth.

BRIAN WILLIAMS We'll also have more on our special report

But also bubbles of ancient air that are trapped in the ice.

But being able to do more with the technology.

But for him, it's to make it better so he can keep

But I don't think that's very likely.

But I feel like time is clicking, you know.

But I talked him into me coming up here and having a look.

But I wasn't interested in being a scientist.

But if it gets too warm, and the ice gets too thin,

But it's also thinning at the same time.

But it's in this zone somewhere.

But most importantly, I didn't think that humans were capable

But now we're heading for 500 parts per million or more.

But of course, I still went with James to Iceland.

But other than that, things are fairly well set up here.

But the reality is that it does.

But they were bloody, gory, horrific pictures, hard to look

But we still have an opportunity to face the greatest challenge

But what we're seeing now is the Greenland ice sheet thinning out

But when I did when I saw that and I realized, my God,

But when you see huge amounts of change,

But you don't necessarily need to do it.

But, youthful brashness can take you a long way,

But...

By flood waters in the West

By looking at the chemistry of the ice, we can learn

By more than two months; larger fires

By themselves, naturally.

Can we dim the house lights a little bit more?

Can you attribute that home run to his taking steroids?

Cause I was curious and I really wanted to do whatever I could

Cause this light won't last forever.

CBS EARLY (VO): Fires stretch from one end

Check on the camera, and all of that, but...

Close to 20 percent of the forest area

CNN FEMALE REPORTER (VO): James Balog is founder

Covered with icebergs so thick,

Crazy stuff going on already.

DENNIS DIMICK: He came with us with a proposal

DENNIS DIMICK: People have a hard time understanding

Do I wish sometimes that it was closer

Do it exactly as you just did it, okay?

Do you know how cold it's been out here, for how long?

Do you see how...

Down in history as this is the evidence

Down through the channels,

Down through these big Moulin caverns.

Down through these swiss cheese holes, you see it melting

DR. GERALD MEEHL: Imagine a base ball player on steroids

DR. JASON BOX: Eight.

DR. JASON BOX: The fire brigade will be on standby

DR. JASON BOX: These are more attractive

DR. MARTIN SHARP: One of the things you often hear

DR. PETER HOEPPE: Munich Re is the world's largest

DR. SYLIA EARLE: It's not just the drive

DR. SYNTE PEACOCK: That pace is a 100 to 1000 times greater

DR. TAD PFEFFER: Ordinarily,

DR. TAD PFEFFER: The Greenland

DR. TERRY ROOT: Plants

DR. THOMAS SWETNAM: In the last 20 years, we have lost,

ED BEGLEY JR: Stuart quit saying that.

Ever since glaciers have entered the ocean, hundreds of thousands

Except that, the thickness the height of it is equivalent

Fall over and roll around.

Falling into the earth and dying.

FEMALE NEWSCASTER: More

FEMALE REPORTER (VO):

FEMALE REPORTER (VO): James Balog is documenting the melting

FEMALE REPORTER: 16 of the last 20 years are the hottest on record.

FEMALE REPORTER: CBS 2011 is now on track

FEMALE REPORTER: Tornadoes

Fine particles of soot that come from wildfires, diesel exhaust

Five in Iceland, five in Alaska and two in Montana.

For basically my whole adult life, uh, someone whose trained

For days and days and days.

For just a one hour period of time.

For me, I realized, the public doesn't wanna hear

For scale, then it's lost.

For something.

For technology to be sitting out in.

For the whole system.

Frankly, I can't believe we actually managed

From 2000 to 2010, it retreated nine miles.

From a glacier that's melting faster up valley,

From a very large perspective.

From Denver, James, thanks for being with us.

From little channels into big channels.

From now and say, what were you doing when, when...

From the ice sheet is running out to sea.

Get the computer changed today.

Glacier National Park Montana will need a new name.

Glaciers matter because they're the canary

GLEN BECK: The consensus is that there is no consensus.

Global warming was happening

God, after all this!

Goes down to the bottom of the ice sheet

Greenhouse gases occur in very small amounts but by increasing

HANNITY: Liberals will say, well if it's cold,

HANNITY: These so called climate scientists are

Happening all in sequence, you know.

He goes to that point where he can't anymore

He has the ability to capture it in a way and communicate it.

He really did fall in love with it.

He sent us on this month long, massive trip,

He's forcing me to think.

He's forcing you to think.

He's just going and hoping that something

He's looking to make a global, worldwide impact.

He's really looking at what humanity is doing

Heads up!

HELICOPTER PILOT: We have low oil pressure

Here it goes.

Here's another time laps shot of Columbia.

Here's the memory of the camera and this is actually,

His books they force you to regard nature in a way

How can that be a response to a global warming signal?

I believe we really have an opportunity right now.

I can't believe that worked.

I discovered that there was really something special

I do not want to go any lower than this.

I don't know that anybody's really seen the miracle

I don't know what the number of feet is, but, it's a lot.

I get it.

I get this thing in the back of my head saying,

I had no contacts in the photo world,

I had no idea it was so thick in here.

I had no knowledge of the photo world.

I had this idea that the most powerful issue

I had to look at it in ways

I have to wrap my knees for the day's festivities.

I just found out.

I mean, that's more of a climb

I present James Balog.

I promise you, 20 years from today,

I realized that I needed to show these things

I remember thinking that I never want to do ice climbing

I started to get the very strong sense

I think that the best that can be said about this is,

I thought maybe there was a lot of hyperbole

I thought that basically,

I was a skeptic about climate change.

I was covering up the soreness with anti inflammatories

I was so naive about that.

I was umm, about 25 or so, I guess.

I wouldn't believe it at all.

I'll take my boots off.

I'm almost certain to get wet, Okay?

I'm inclined to think that you guys should at least go and look

I'm not kidding, for like three hours, we stood there,

I'm totally happy to be here.

I've never seen him so passionate

If a glacier that's been here for 30,000 years,

If a little electronic piece that big doesn't work.

If I don't have pictures, I don't have anything.

If I hadn't seen it in the pictures,

If it's hot it's global warming there's nothing

If there's no pollinators out there to pollinate,

If you don't have that, that little dot of a person

If you make climate a little warmer,

If you make the climate a little colder,

Ilulissat glacier and sit.

In '05, you couldn't even look into the canyon back there,

In 1958, four got bigger.

In 1984, the glacier was down there, 11 miles away.

In 2007, just two years ago, you couldn't see any

In a half and a half and three feet.

In a more seductive fashion.

In engine number two.

In fact it's very weird.

In front of the peninsula that we think's going to go.

In front of your eyes.

In my daughter's lifetimes, will be somewhere between a foot

In one part; flew off into whoever knows where.

In such a short period of time.

In that V section right there.

In the atmospheric conditions.

In the debate about glacier change is

In the earth sciences, I never imagined

In the Ganges flood plane that matters a lot.

In the global coal mine.

In the Norther Hemisphere.

In the past 24 hours which is somewhat weird.

In the Rocky Mountains, but if you live down in Chesapeake Bay,

In the voltage regulator and in this little computer timer

In the Western United States in the last 20 years;

In the work that he is doing, is visualizing the change

In these pictures and I have to go back to those same spots.

In total on that trip.

In your system, but by adding just a little bit

Insanely, ridiculously beautiful.

Into Columbia.

Into these tiny little blocks of ice going off into the ocean.

Is out on the edges of the ice sheet.

Is where I really first got it.

It also intensifies the impact of hurricanes and typhoons.

It didn't seem probable, it didn't seem possible.

It doesn't just respond just a little bit, the volume drops.

It felt better the three days after the surgery

It has to be dead.

It has to be explained by changes

It is the most productive glacier

It makes me fucking insane!

It matters in China, it matters in Indonesia.

It may never be seen again in the history of civilization

It means that there's a lot more high water along the coast

It might of been there, it might of been here;

It pushes that much more water that much further inland.

It receded 11 miles.

It took a hundred years for it

It was five football fields long 1,500 feet long.

It was on the cover of the magazine.

It was very evocative, very emotional.

It's 100 feet deep into an abyss.

It's all becoming a little more real.

It's as if the entire lower tip of Manhattan broke off,

It's been .8 degrees C,

It's been working all winter!

It's crazy.

It's dead.

It's dead.

It's enormous, you can't wrap your head

It's exactly what we wanted.

It's global warming, if it's snowing it's global warming,

It's in that melt water, rushing out to the ocean.

It's irreversible it's just gonna keep going.

It's like the air being let out of a balloon.

It's like the surface of the moon.

It's my job to go out there every couple

It's not just by chance that I'm seeing many rare events

It's not like we're just going out there

It's ripping too.

It's rumored that this is the glacier that put out the iceberg

It's so disappointing.

It's sort of like doing a portrait of people.

It's the high water mark of the glacier in 1984.

It's the place where you can see climate change happening.

It's to make it better.

JAMES BALOG (CONT'D):

JAMES BALOG (CONT'D): Bye babe.

JAMES BALOG (CONT'D): Way back, early in my career,

JAMES BALOG: (VO): Right there where Svav is.

JAMES BALOG: Ah!

JAMES BALOG: Alright quickly!

JAMES BALOG: And when I saw those, the lights when off

JAMES BALOG: Beautiful.

JAMES BALOG: Come on, please.

JAMES BALOG: Enough

JAMES BALOG: Everything we're trying is getting thwarted.

JAMES BALOG: Ewwww.

JAMES BALOG: Fantastic!

JAMES BALOG: Go back and get whatever you have.

JAMES BALOG: Heads up!

JAMES BALOG: I did a couple years of research

JAMES BALOG: I have a hard time letting ideas go, you know?

JAMES BALOG: I think It's in that voltage regulator.

JAMES BALOG: I think, when we started out,

JAMES BALOG: I'm going out here on this broken fin.

JAMES BALOG: If you had an abcess in your tooth,

JAMES BALOG: Is it still going?

JAMES BALOG: It feels worse this morning

JAMES BALOG: It's been shooting the entire time...

JAMES BALOG: It's only shot eight pictures

JAMES BALOG: Look! Down!

JAMES BALOG: March.

JAMES BALOG: My pleasure, thank you.

JAMES BALOG: Oh, man.

JAMES BALOG: Ohhhhh.

JAMES BALOG: Okay Svav, you ready for another exposure?

JAMES BALOG: Okay.

JAMES BALOG: Okay. Onward.

JAMES BALOG: Piece o'cake.

JAMES BALOG: Prior to '06

JAMES BALOG: See that white dot down there...

JAMES BALOG: Since June?

JAMES BALOG: So how big was this calving event

JAMES BALOG: Sure.

JAMES BALOG: Thank you so much.

JAMES BALOG: That glacier had changed so much, that,

JAMES BALOG: That is fabulous.

JAMES BALOG: That's like a gift.

JAMES BALOG: That's right.

JAMES BALOG: The worst that would happen is

JAMES BALOG: There is this really big stuff happening right

JAMES BALOG: There's this limitless Universe

JAMES BALOG: This is tonight's dinner,

JAMES BALOG: This thing is gonna break off all summer long man.

JAMES BALOG: Up to the Ilulissat Glacier calving face.

JAMES BALOG: We are.

JAMES BALOG: We don't have a problem with economics,

JAMES BALOG: We had to replace all the old timers.

JAMES BALOG: We switched to an entirely different kind

JAMES BALOG: Well, and the other danger is

JAMES BALOG: What counts to me more than the notion

JAMES BALOG: What?

JAMES BALOG: Whatever the dangers of that boulder are,

JAMES BALOG: When glaciers break these gigantic icebergs

JAMES BALOG: When I saw that glacier dying, it was like, wow.

JAMES BALOG: Yeah, I don't need it.

JAMES BALOG: Yeah.

JAMES BALOG: You do have rope in the car?

JAMES BALOG: You look out that window at that sea water

JAMES WOOLSEY: One of the really troubling things

JASON BOX (VO): Oh my God, a giant crack just formed.

JASON BOX: Okay, so...

Jeez...

JEFF ORLOWSKI: Adam, have you ever done something

JEFF ORLOWSKI: Because literally, it was just,

JEFF ORLOWSKI: Call him back.

JEFF ORLOWSKI: I totally lost him.

JEFF ORLOWSKI: It was huge.

JEFF ORLOWSKI: It's starting Adam, I think.

JEFF ORLOWSKI: James is now doing exactly what his doctors

JEFF ORLOWSKI: James sent me a gear list of things

JEFF ORLOWSKI: My first trip to Greenland, We were setting

JEFF ORLOWSKI: Negative 40 degree temperatures.

JEFF ORLOWSKI: Oh, I see him.

JEFF ORLOWSKI: The essence of the camera systems is based

JEFF ORLOWSKI: The Ilulissat glacier in Greenland is kind

JEFF ORLOWSKI: Uhh, correct, this is where...

JEFF ORLOWSKI: We were there

JEFF ORLOWSKI: We've had numerous,

JEFF ORLOWSKI: We've had Plexiglas windows sand blasted.

JEFF ORLOWSKI: What's up?

JEFF ORLOWSKI: Yeah.

Jim Balog, a photographer with the group Extreme Ice Survey.

Just in case.

Just kind of perched out at the front of this the calving face

Just not what the doctor ordered.

KITTY BOONE: You know, Ansel Adams was the father

Leave that rotten tooth in.

Let me call you back.

Let me see.

Let me tell you what we've been seeing out there.

Let's get out of here.

Let's uh, see what a couple years brings to us.

Like most people say, I'm going to get knee surgery

Like nothing they've ever seen before.

Like this before?

Like, however many it takes to keep him going.

Lines, so when these big storms come,

Look at that.

Look at the whole thing!

Look at this.

Look at this.

Look at this.

Look at those holes.

Look how soft this stuff is.

Look. Look at this.

Looking across the terminus.

Looking at the glacier going, we must be wrong,

Looking at the prints of six months ago,

LOUIS PSIHOYOS: He's always taken the big view.

LOUIS PSIHOYOS: The Extreme Ice Survey will go

Make things happen, so, that's how it worked.

MALE REPORTER (VO): And consider who NASA is sending

MALE: The globe is actually cooling

Mass extinction event means that we loose half,

Maybe that office job wasn't so bad.

Me and Adam, for three weeks, watching ice.

Might not ever happen.

Minimum. That doesn't sound like a lot if you live

More projections what they need is a believable,

More than I had realized.

Most popular, most wellread story in the last five years.

Natural catastrophes; we need

No, it was retreating through the winter

No, it's dead, it's not working.

Not realizing that the drugs were masking the symptoms way

Now down onto the side of the glacier,

Now we turn on our time lapse.

Now we're two years in.

Numerous timer failures.

Observing it and knowing it is one thing, but sharing it

Of like the mother of all glaciers.

Of like the mother of all glaciers.

Of all landscape photography and he created a movement

Of central Asia, mixed with little flakes of carbon,

Of changing the basic physics and chemistry

Of climate change itself.

Of epochal geologic change right now.

Of faces essential, and found endless variation

Of glaciers around the world.

Of ice, and you bust your knee.

Of months to visit the cameras.

Of natural dust that blows in from the deserts

Of our generation, and in fact, of our century.

Of our time was the interaction of humans and nature.

Of pecking away at it.

Of Texas to the other.

Of that mountain ridge over there.

Of that stuff accumulates in these little holes,

Of the century because all the glaciers will be gone.

Of the climate changing, is that the air is changing.

Of the Empire State Building.

Of the general public thinks

Of the glacier, the surface drops.

Of the glacier, where the glacier ends.

Of the other dentists told you you had a problem?

Of the rest got smaller.

Of the system and make it much more susceptible

Of these little cryoconite holes melting away

Of this entire huge planet.

Of this massive, massive, glacier.

Of those steroids, you can change your background physical

Of what's called a calving face.

Of years ago, ice has always calved off.

Off into the ocean it's called calving c a l v i n g.

Oh my God.

Oh my gosh, look at this stuff!

Oh my.

Ohhh, there's all sorts of curios crinkling

Okay we got to go back, and go to the big glacier,

Okay?

Okay? And I don't, I assume it won't collapse.

Okay. What I'm here to do tonight is bring

Okay.. Well, here we go.

Okay...

On a man who lets his pictures do the talking

On pushing it, destroying it, basically,

On putting really delicate electronics

On the American people.

On the climate change story,

On the surface of a planet.

One of the subjects I started to look at involved people hunting.

One of the things that we learn, is that past temperature

Or 100,000 years is literally dying in front of my eyes,

Or ice related stuff, it's dangerous, I'm gonna die,

Or it will happen a long time in the future.

Or three times higher than they are.

Or would you pull it out because more

Our activities primarily greenhouse gas emissions

Out of frame we had to turn the camera one more time

Over 300 disappeared completely, and almost all

Over a course of a few months.

Over the melt zone in Greenland and everyday,

Period, flat out, just dead.

Personal money, getting to Alaska, getting to Greenland

PIERS MORGAN: You're about to self implode here.

Playback.

Please work.

RADIO CHATTER

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RICHARD WARD: I actually saw his work last spring

Right there.

Right there.

Right? Over.

Rock! This is fantastic.

RUSH LIMBAUGH (VO):

Said he shouldn't be doing.

Science is not arguing about that.

Sculptural, architectural...

See that whole island, it's going away.

Seven. Six, Five.

SIMONE BALOG: He's on this never ending quest

SIMONE BALOG: It's hard to see somebody that you love chase

Slam it together and put it out there.

Snow is added to the top, turns into ice,

So I'll just do a fourth knee surgery, you know?

So that we could still see the glacier.

So, I set up a whole bunch of camera positions

Some big calving events.

Somehow.

Something that grabs them in the gut.

Sometime you go out over the horizon and you don't come back.

Sounded right, was ice.

State and increase your chances for enhanced performance

Stay up where it's flat.

STUART MALE REPORTER: No

STUART MALE REPORTER: No, the debate is not over

STUART MALE REPORTER: The science is not in

SUZANNE BALOG: He needs to do his adventures.

SUZANNE BALOG: I love you too.

SUZANNE BALOG: Jim was told after his surgery

SUZANNE BALOG: The scope and the scale of EIS is bigger

SVAR JONATANSSON: Well here's another thing.

SVAV JONATANSSON: Alright, this way.

SVAV JONATANSSON: As ready as I can be.

SVAV JONATANSSON: He pushes it he's looking for something.

SVAV JONATANSSON: I'm just emphasizing how bad the

SVAV JONATANSSON: I'm just saying Jesus Christ.

SVAV JONATANSSON: It feels like, yeah,

SVAV JONATANSSON: No.

SVAV JONATANSSON: Okay.

SVAV JONATANSSON: So as quick as I can, I, I cover it.

SVAV JONATANSSON: The first time I worked with James,

SVAV JONATANSSON: The logistics

SVAV JONATANSSON: The sandwiches are better here.

SVAV JONATANSSON: Unless you're in a wheelchair.

SVAV JONATANSSON: Yeah.

Technology and public policy.

Than any other project since I've known him.

Than any other project since I've known him.

Than it had in the previous 100.

Than it had in the previous 100.

Than it has any day since the surgery.

Than the surrounding ice does.

Than they did 1000 years ago.

Than we did in the past two days.

Thank you.

That about 280 parts per million.

That allows us to actually see what was and what is become.

That could happen within the next 200 to 300 years.

That doesn't prove that there's it's global warming.

That event was so spectacular, we decided,

That geology is something that happened a long time ago

That glacier had been receding several hundred feet a year;

That he's doing is taking him in the right direction

That hiking is not a form of exercise

That I could feel rolling around in there.

That I had never heard I mean Ice axes and crampons

That I had never used before.

That I'd just get really wet if I just stood in place.

That is just, surreal, other worldly.

That landscape is gone.

That preserve climate records, very much like tree rings.

That sank the titanic.

That science is still arguing about that.

That seldom is caught on film.

That the whole thing suddenly implodes

That there are glaciers around the world

That they want him to pursue anymore.

That things can happen very, very very quickly.

That this was a scouting mission for something much bigger,

That vertical change is the height

That was embedded in those cores.

That was turning this into an activist cause.

That we are actually natural organisms

That we have on the planet.

That we just looked at?

That we knew what was going on.

That would engage people pull them in.

That would make interesting photographs.

That would show you how the landscape was changing.

That you could see features this big disappearing

That you could walk across the ocean...

That you're not accustomed to looking at em.

That's a magical, miraculous, horrible, scary thing.

That's an interesting thought.

That's exactly where the ice was.

That's it, better.

That's it!

That's like approximately half the size of the United States.

That's outside of normal behavior.

That's the good news.

That's the same thing as what's going on here.

That's where it ended a few months ago.

That's where it started.

That's where we were a few months ago last time we were

That's who the man is, that's who I married.

The action at Columbia is in part,

The air that we live in, the air that sustains us,

The amazing thing to me is that we're already seeing impacts