Question.1899 - Here is an extra credit opportunity. You will watch a great documentary called "Chasing Ice" which tells the story of a courageous photographer as he tries to document the effect global warming is having on the glaciers of the Arctic. The film captures the beauty and power of the diminishing glaciers of Iceland and Alaska. note: you can stream the film on Amazon or iTunes but I also found a website that appears to offer free streaming of the film: https://www.documentarymania.com/player.php?title=Chasing%20IceLinks to an external site.
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Chasing Ice Donesha Veal California State University, East Bay ENSC-320 Global Change Professor Dr. Gita Dunhill May 6th, 2024 Chasing Ice James Balog is the photographer (Geomorphologist); who tries to see the ice as a story by photographing the retreating ice from glaciers around the rapid melting trends across the world, which serves him as a key proxy for climate change (Orlowski, 2012). Although the icebergs vary in size and rate of change, they tend to reflect on the shift in temperature and its impact or even precipitation patterns. The form or trends in which the ice melt tend to drastically fluctuate over varied areas, which makes it challenging to mitigate a pattern of ice melting and it becomes challenging to climb to a spot of melt to record the data (for instance, the Solheim Glacier receded several 100 kms) or investigate the behavior with the influence of temperature. Since the assessment of glacier change requires time to research, it results in burdening the research team with a cost (the example Solheim glacier experienced a drastic change in geography within 6 months) (Orlowski, 2012). "Extreme Ice Survey or EIS," with a goal of using 25 cameras for a time span of three years in and around Alaska, experienced harsh conditions which were difficult for both technologies (specifically carrying and placing time-lapse cameras) and researchers - as they had to walk through the harsher terrain that took a physical toll on working at a remote location, thirdly funding and logistical constraints to limited the research within the provided budget, and their project required complex equipment to monitor the melting, which required either long hours trek or flying to a fragile location that was hazardous or expensive like Greenland, Island, Montana or Alaska (Orlowski, 2012). Balog was trying to convince people with time-lapse pictures and videos that spoke about ice fragility to the stakeholders, which served as a way to explore the ice cores that aided in understanding the history of glaciers story, for instance, considering the data retracted from Greenland that depicts the climate record – such as through bubbles of ancient air trapped in ice measuring the Co2 content, and the chemistry of the ice cores provided insights about past temperatures (Orlowski, 2012). Balog tends to aid in assessing the sheer magnitude of the ice loss, which serves as the scale of climate change, which is very effective in varying ways, like the global impact it has on developing nations; this researchable data is grounded by scientific methods that assure credibility to his message. However, some of the strategies that I might employ would be to localize the issues by focusing on specific regions like developing nations since the impact on people is higher when compared to developed nations, be it an increase in water levels or varied climatic conditions that delay rainfall which in turn affects the agricultural produce, then trying to find common ground to establish shared values like protecting future generation or responsible stewardship of resources; also utilize diverse messengers by enlisting trusted voices within the community particularly scientists, or even faith leaders who are respected local figures in order to extend the reach and depth of the message. References Orlowski, J. (2012). Chasing ice. Documentary Area. https://www.documentaryarea.com/video/Chasing%20Ice/
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