Chasing Ice Analysis

Chasing Ice is a documentary on melting glacier and letting the people know what is going on. This documentary was produced in 2012 directed by Jeff Orlowski. This documentary is very good on their facts. They had experts that backed up every statistic and facts they had to say. They also, had good emotional appeals, that include pictures and music. This caught people's attention as soon as James Balog showed his pictures and the reduction on the glaciers in Greenland and Iceland. James did not do much talking like he said "let my pictures do the talking" (1:02:00). The author surprises the viewers with pictures he showed but he could have used a little more fact. He had good experts but he could have used a little of experts.

We are seeing glacier from millions of year ago melt and the public not knowing what's happening. According to Dr. Martin Sharp and expert

According to James Balog he stated, "From 1902 to 2001 the glacier reduced 8 miles, but from 2001 to 2010 it doubled. It's melting faster and quicker by time" (Balog 1:08:30). The biggest glacier, the mother of all, is the glacier that people say sunk the Titanic. The assistants in the documentary witness the biggest caving event ever recorded. The size of the caving was the size of lower Manhattan, but was up to 2-3 times higher than the building in the lower part. Also, Ice land is being affected drastically due to the rapid melting of the ice sheets. According to James Balog, he stated that "The south edges of ice land are melting closer and closer to the center, which is higher into the ice sheet." (Balog40:33). This is happening when there are pools in the ice glaciers and the go through canals under the ice sheet then it gets weak and just starts to slide off the side and this is called caving. This is from the snow melting and creating these pools. It's when the Co2 is higher than the o2 in our