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In ‘Chasing Ice,’ climate change gets its close up
Posted by Associated Press: Dana Schimmel on November 5th, 2012
Associated Press: There is a scene in the documentary ''Chasing Ice'' that shows the edge of the massive Ilulissat glacier in Greenland collapsing -- or ''calving'' -- and violently crashing into the sea below. The piece of ice that breaks away is compared to the size of lower Manhattan, and appears taller than any building there.
The video of the glacier, also called by its Danish name, Jakobshavn, is what photographer James Balog calls ''irrefutable'' evidence of climate change. Balog is the subject of ''Chasing...