Within months of that first trip to Iceland, the photographer conceived the boldest expedition of his life: The Extreme Ice Survey.
Balog is the brainchild of the Extreme Ice Survey and, if this documentary is supposed to … Statistics used in Chasing Ice include the fact that insurance companies report double the amount of weather related incidents. But it’s hard to muster a feeling of awe and disgust simultaneously, and so Chasing Ice’s message is somewhat muddied. Either way, "Chasing Ice" by Jeff Orlowski is heart-stopping in its coverage of the brave and risky attempt by a scientist named James Balog and his team of researchers on the Extreme Ice Survey, where "extreme" refers to their efforts almost more than to the ice.
Since that day, Chasing Ice has screened in more than 172 countries and on all 7 continents.
Scientist drill holes and pull out a core and examine bubbles of ancient air trapped in the ice. In May 2008, the EIS team had a video camera rolling on the gigantic Ilulissat Glacier in western Greenland when it underwent the largest instance of calving, or the shedding of large chunks of ice from its face, ever recorded. The film made its TV debut on the National Geographic Channel on April 19, 2013. Balog's hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate. A few sites are listed so you can find more detailed information. It has been the subject of features on the NBC Evening News, ABC Nightline, and The Late Show with David Letterman, PBS’s Moyers & Company, and Real Time with Bill Maher. There is a tremendous amount of knowledge on the Internet about climate change, its impacts, causes and resolution. It was filmed over three years, with 500+ hours underwater, includes footage from over 30 countries, and was made with the support of over 500 people around the world. In 'Chasing Ice,' we follow Balog across the Arctic as he deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers. Chasing Ice was shortlisted for the 2013 Academy Awards. Or that you don't. Chasing Ice is honored to have received the 2014 News and Documentary Emmy® award for Outstanding Nature Programming!! We witness just such an event in Chasing Ice, a documentary film account of Balog’s Arctic quest directed and produced by Jeff Orlowski. CHASING CORAL is a film directed by Jeff Orlowski and produced by Larissa Rhodes, as an Exposure Labs production. Chasing Ice’s limitations as an argument are due to its diluted narrative. Warrants is usually an unstated claim made by the arguer that the audience usually assumes. Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet. It was filmed over three years, with 500+ hours underwater, includes footage from over 30 countries, and was made with the support of over 500 people around the world. CHASING CORAL is a film directed by Jeff Orlowski and produced by Larissa Rhodes, as an Exposure Labs production. In Chasing Ice, Dr. Pfeffer explains the process for how we know what we know: “Ice Sheets are giant domes of ice that preserve climate records much like tree rings, snow is added to the top and turn into ice sheets.