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Vanishing Glaciers and Changing Climate: A Progress Report
Focal Point
April 2009
On Sale: March 24, 2009
120 pages
ISBN: 1426204019
EAN: 9781426204012
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Using both time-lapse and conventional photography as well
as digital video, the Extreme Ice Survey is the most
extensive visual study ever conducted to illustrate the
catastrophic melting of glacial ice. The result is a
dramatic and timely demonstration of global warming’s
dangerous consequences from Alaska to Iceland to the Alps.
Serviced via foot, horseback, dogsled, skis, fishing boats,
and helicopters at 15 sites in the Northern Hemisphere and
programmed to shoot once an hour, every hour of daylight,
each of the 26 cameras captures approximately 4,000 images
per year. This stunning collection of photographs will form
a companion exhibition traveling to museums all over the
world as part of an urgent outreach campaign aimed at
educating the public about global warming and providing
irrefutable scientific evidence of how rapidly our planet’s
climate is changing. Launched in the fall of 2006 and scheduled to continue until
late summer of 2009, the remarkable Extreme Ice Survey
archive will ultimately total more than 300,000
photographs--a treasure trove of data for researchers and a
portrait of nature as arresting and unforgettable as it is
ominous.
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