“Chasing Ice” Screening to Show Time-Lapse Footage of Climate Change

Chasing Ice, the Emmy Award-winning documentary about the world’s vanishing glaciers, will be the Climate Change Coalition of Door County program at 7 pm, Nov. 4, at Crossroads at Big Creek in Sturgeon Bay. The program is free and open to the public.

Chasing Ice won the 2014 News and Documentary Emmy Award for outstanding nature programming. It’s the story of acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog, who in 2005 headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment for National Geographic to capture images to help tell the story of the Earth’s changing climate. Even with a scientific upbringing, Balog had been a skeptic about climate change, but that first trip north opened his eyes to the biggest story in human history.

Within months of that first trip to Iceland, the photographer conceived the boldest expedition of his
 life – the Extreme Ice Survey. With a band of young adventurers in tow, Balog began deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers. Balog captured hauntingly beautiful videos that show ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate.

Bruce Smith, atmospheric education resource agent for the American Meteorological Society and a meteorology instructor for the University of Wisconsin Colleges, will be moderator for the evening. For more information visit climatechangedoorcounty.com.