Extreme ice

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This videodisc focuses on climate change shown through time-lapse cameras set by internationally acclaimed photojournalist James Balog, who has placed equipment in more than two dozen glacial locations around the world in order to assess the impact of global warming.
DVD5, region 1, widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo., NTSC.

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Exquisite Disappearing Beauty submitted by Meginator on July 6, 2018, 10:17pm This documentary beautifully illustrates the effects of human-created climate change on the world’s glaciers and ice caps, particularly those in Arctic regions. The visuals are absolutely stunning, in part because one of the featured scientists is also a talented photographer, and the film’s real-time and time-lapse footage of ice collapsing is worth the price of admission. The sheer beauty is offset by interviews with scientists who reiterate that such drastic temperature changes are unprecedented in the Earth’s history; the situation is enough to send you into a panic, but the filmmakers resist the urge to exaggerate, allowing the scientists’ own observations to speak for themselves. For all the beauty in this film, it functions as a gentle, yet clear, warning that the planet’s inner workings are not to be trifled with lightly, and we may well be on a road to inevitable disaster.