Cashing Ice

Both at CMC and English class, we have deal with issues related with the enviroment, the pollution, the causes and the consequences of that problems,... and recently, I have seen a documentary about the thawing of the Poles, Groenlandia,... This documentary impact me a lot! It was a visual example of how dramatically is the change of the weather in our planet. The docuemntary was made by the photographer James Balog (USA), that before recieve an assignment of National Geographic in 2005, he started to record and preserve during more that six years pictures of this changes. In the docuemntary, he said that he wanted to find a way to capture and show what was happening in the Artic and in the glacials from around the world. The result of this has been this documentary: "Cashin Ice", based on 25 different cameras aiming to 16 different glacials in Alaska, Greenland, Iceeland, Switzerland, Canada... Each camera took pictures every half and hour during the day, producing almost one milion of pictures altogether. Balog said that do this documentary has change his point of view of the climate change and see this documentary has had the same effect on me, what you see in it shocks you! I rememeber one scene of the documentary in wich Balog appears seeing the pictures taken by on of the cameras and saying: "This is the memory of a landscape, a landscape that has already disappeared and will never bee see againg in the story of the civilitzation".

I think that of all the places recorded, the Arctic is which has cuaght more my atention because is the one that has change more. In Semptember of this year, the ice layer was the lower record registret ever! It wouldn't be a problem if during the "cold stations" this ice were formed again, but it is a problem because althoug during this "cold staions" the ice grows, each summer it melts more and more so the Arctic, since 1979, has been reduced by 40%.

Another shockin case is Greenland and the Antarctica hat according to the NASA, the thraw of this areas is now irreversible. The ice in this places decreases 2km each year and in the last decade has disappeared abou 35 km of theur area! 

I think thta what we should ask to ourselfs is: Why is happening this? And what we can do to solve this problem?Well., along the history of the Earth, the climae has been always changing: there has been seasons more and less hot oR cold, there has been glaciations,... and bound to this changes of temperatures, there has been setbacks and expansions of the areA coberted by ice. This changes happened in gradually ways, but now it's different; nowadays, the effects has increased as a consecuence of the human activity. The increasing pollution, the increasing emission of gases, the deforestation, the gases emitd by the trasnports and the industry, the use of fossils materials,... that cause the greenhouse effect are contributing at the increasing of the force and quickness of the climate changes. With the greenhouse effect, the global temperature increase a lot (just in the last decade it has increased 1,8ºF) and as a consecuence of this, there is an increase of the temperature of the ocean, a hole in the ozone layer,... that help to the thraw of our pols, to the extintion of many species, to the increase of the extreme weather events,...

The problem according to James Balong, is that althought the technological and economc solution for stop the impact of the climate change already exists, the only thing left is a greater political and public undertanding for try to conscious the population what are we doing to our planet  and how can we stopped this.