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  • We can't do anything anymore, the tundra is melting, the methane underneath is being released, this will accelerate the greenhouse effect. To quote C-3P0, "we're doomed"

  • My poor Penguins !!! Antarctica is amazing I visited it 10ys ago. Don't mess with Mother Nature!

  • " Have you noticed too much SUNLIGHT OVER ICESHELVES? If yes, IS THE ICESHELVES MELTING FROM THE TOP? WHO IS PAYING TO THESE PHOTOGRAPHERS? YES, IPCC PAYING THEM. ICESHELVES ARE CARVING FROM BASE BY CONC: DEICERS FROM HEAVY DUTY DESALTERS. OCEAN CIRCULATIONS ALONG WITH HURRICANES THESE CONC: DEICERS ARE REACHING NEAR POLES. THAT IS WHY DURING WINTER ICESHELVES ARE DEICING. EXAMPLE:- WILLKINS ICESHELF COLLAPSED DURING APRIL 5, 2008."

  • " I believe these innovations have to happen in the market place, NOT from government intervention" Unfortunately, you are wrong about this one. There are many reasons why this kind of logic does not work in practice. One reason, energy efficient cars and houses etc. are at this time more expensive than usual alternatives. People than go to cheaper solutions without questioning them. And if you add that large (esp. oil) companies have the most influence on the market, you have no other option

  • Can he show me the 1930s pics and why did all the ice melt from 1830 to 1900? God?

  • What happened in 2010 and 2011 LOLOL did the Ice move forward

  • so now a nature photographer with two years of data is the final word on climate change? hardly, he uses all the fear mongering buzzwords to reinforce the idea that all of us need to pay a carbon tax, when there is zero possibility of a carbon tax effecting any miniscule global temperature mitigation, what a crock of shit.

  • ya allAH!

  • Gertrudes

  • O Degelo - Extreme Ice see on ytube

  • For 20 years the denialists simply said global warming did not exist. Then, when it became so obvious to everyone that the climate was changing, they switched tactics and now admit it's happening but it isn't our fault. What will they try next? Perhaps "ok, it's happening, it's our fault, but there's nothing we can do about it." So long as they can avoid having to admit responsibility or god forbid drive something other than an SUV.

  • There is a petition circulated by Dr. Arthur Robinson, director of the Oregon Institute for Science and Medicine, signed by more than 31,000 scientists who dispute the theory of man-made global warming.

  • @SirPhartsUhlot Ummm you might want to google the Oregon Petition before you take it seriously...

  • I think it is rather silly that people are arguing over this fact. Human beings being responsible for a part of climate change or the possibility that it is all natural is beside the point, we should all care more about our planet. We should stop abusing this planet the way we have for so long simply because it is our planet, not because of this or that, the ice caps melting or the forests disappearing, but because we are here to even have the possibility to destroy or work in harmony with earth

  • thumbs up if you had to do this for hw

  • I hope they went by boat and train rather than plane to set up these expeditions ;)

    Great project but the money might have been better spent on voluntary contraception funding which reduces the population in high consumption per capita regions. Choosing to have one less child (and having access to voluntray contraception) has 20 times more impact on reducing emissions than any other environmental action someone can take in their entire lives (see OSU paper on family planning and environment).

  • huh didnt anybody pay attention in grade 3... were coming outta an ice age i was told, doesnt this mean the glaciers are melting?.... why do we need a bunch of scientists if we new this was already happening? ps dont reply i dont care about your one sided opionions

  • @mypierce20 YOU ARE AN IDIOT. don't reply I don't care about your brain dead opinion.

  • i wish this yank fuck would stop talking and just show the pics..

  • Because the 'Elite audience' gets it.

  • @ 17:00 it looks like a frozen tsunami

  • por favor tem em portugues?

  • Is a warmer a positive or negitive for the planet? Is more CO2 better for the planet or harm it? Releasing Carbon trap inside the planet good or bad for life on the planet?

  • So this clip is about global warming and it's brought to us by BMW? (00:18)

  • For those that believe that the global temperatures have been rising due to changes in solar radiation. The Satellites at the World Radiation Center concludes that there has been no increase in solar irradiance since 1978. Meaning in the last 30 yrs, when temperatues have been rising fastest, the sun has shown no trend. I encourage skeptics to look at the evidence themselves on PMOD.

  • @101twilight08 excellent and well sounded point!

  • and the hoax continues,....

  • It's all Global Warming Cult Propaganda. Just follow the money. I noticed he didn't discuss where and how he earns a paycheck. No Hoax, no paycheck.

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  • @Steelers1407 I agree. I have been following the money from the oil companies to Climate Deniers for years. I only wish that people stop listening to everything the climate deniers say on Fox and Rush Limbaugh and start doing the research.

  • @Steelers1407 Really! are you that stupid?

  • If it was natural then why has the changing weather precipitation which caused it should coincidentally coincided with human development. IF we were heading towards the ice age wouldnt we as evolved man try to maintain an environment suitable for human life even artificially? If the temp increases + greenhouse gasses continue to be trapped it will eventually make life unsustainable + increase # of insects rats, Ants, rodents, growing larger and becoming more abundant.

  • I am disappointed and sad to see the comments of those who oversimplify, rationally polarize through politics or economics or over expand the science beyond our planet's atmosphere to discount a significant body of photographic and quantitative work demonstrating a human problem on earth and solutions that may save our species and all other life on Earth.

  • You're an elite audience. You get it.

  • He supports Obama in taking action. Here comes the Carbon Tax. Somehow, giving the banks money will clean the air. This is bullshit. The sun cycle is reaching maximum as it does every 11 years. This coming solar maximum is predicted to be the worst in centuries. He failed to mention all the planets and moons in the solar system are also warming up. The Martian ice cap are also receding. CO2 is 1 of 4 ingredients to life, another, water vapour is believed to be the culprit of the warming.

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  • ICY what he's talking about. haha (::

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  • icy.

  • once i knew where the camera's are im going there just to get those camera!!!lol

  • My problem with this presentation is: Just because you see ice melting and glaciers receding, that doesn't mean that this is caused by CO2 emissions.

    It's a complex topic, I've read books about it. Just one nugget of info here: He purposely excludes the Antarctic. The interesting thing is that the antarctic is about 94% of the ice shield, and it's currently *growing*.

  • @MikeEnRegalia

    Frames 7:10 to 8:49 are a pretty good summary re CO2 levels.

    New research by NASA's gravity measurement satellites suggests that the Antarctic ice mass is shrinking. Google East Antarctic Ice Sheet Mass. East Antarctica is the scary one; it is on land.

  • @PJRoberts7,

    That's the same graph Al Gore used to mislead people. The CO2 lags behind temperature by about 600 to 800 years. It's the rise in temperature that causes CO2 to rise as well. CO2 follows temperature. The effects of climate change does not mean CO2 causes it as pointed out by MikeRegalia.

  • @digitalfilmvillage ---- your theory has been squashed as pseudoscience. check out climate denial crock of the week.

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  • From a BBC article about this method of measurement:

    "The first thing is that lots of this is dependent on the isostatic [rebound] model, and (recent work has) cast some doubt on the istostatic models that people are using," commented the Penn State University researcher (who was not involved in the paper).

    I don't think that this is reliable.

  • How delightful to get a BMW ad just after being lectured about the consequences of CO2 emissions. Its a shame TED talks are being sponsored by the contaminating industry. Remember: cars are always bad for the environment; we dont need to make them more energy efficient but to get rid of them. I hate to see people so excited about car design. Humanity is too arrogant; we should be a bit more scared about nature.

  • Very interesting and good documentary, however simply making all cars electric is not going to help matters much.

    Consider closing every major factory, every oil rig, grounding every plane, removing electricity, pretty much moving back to the stone age.

    The planet used to run fine on its own, but modern humans will not survive in such conditions. We can either stop everything we live off, or eventually launch ourselves into a world of famine and poverty.

    Either way, we are all fucked.

  • Well, obviously this makes sense that a PHOTOGRAPHER is an expert on climate conditions and the environment because he takes pictures of nature....Lol.

  • 99% of scientists is agrees that global warming is manmade and 1% believe that global warming isn't caused by human influence. But yet, 60% of the population believes what those 1% of scientists say. Watch the movie/documentary "The age of stupid" instead of "Fall of the republic"... After that you will rethink about spreading the word what moron alex jones says.

  • @bamboocha923

    What!! Where are you getting those numbers? Fox news for kids? lol Redo those fact checks.

  • @bamboocha923 you know its funny lets say humans did cause global warming how did humans caused globals warming in the rest of the solar system ? cause now 100% of the scientists know that all the planets getting warmer boy how did we get to those places DAMN we are so bad please sheeple WAKE THE FUCK UP STOP BELIEVING EVERYTHING YOU HEAR 1% said it was caused by other force and it affects the rest of the solar system boy do the 99% proved them wrong sad
  • @WishingBones All planets have seasons just like the Earth does. So they are locally getting warmer but they are also cooling down. So, maybe 100% of scientists are agreeing that all planets are getting warmer but not all of them are agreing that is for the same reason and in the same percentage. People can google it out and see for themselves that theories such as what you said are just theories with no solid evidence to back it up.

  • @bamboocha923

    watch?v=FfHW7KR33IQ

    dont believe the elite mind manipulators they are all the same

    second you can do a simple research to find out that all the planets in our solar system and warming up to a point never seen before in modern history

    it got nothing to do with seasons i cant give you your evidence cause its so easy

    to find them look at time laps the planets in our solar system in the last 10 years

    you will learn something new

    good luck finding out the truth

  • @WishingBones The video link you sent has NONE of the scientific facts why Al Gore is a fraud and I watched it year ago. 30 000 scientist !?!? Please find me that list because I have been trying to find that for months. And you will not find it! Why? Because the lawsuit never happenned! This is why I dont even bother replying comments about this topic anymore. Wake up and smell the coffe: We are fucking up the enviroment! Dont turn your head the other way!

  • @bamboocha923

    i told you everything you need to do in order to understand why it accruing you chose to read only the 5 first wards its your choice not my i think

    and again good luck finding the truth

  • @WishingBones Google this: "NASA global warming", go to the first page listed in the search and find out what NASA REALLY thinks about global warming. At the end of the second paragraph: "A small number of scientists argue that the increase in greenhouse gases has not made a measurable difference in the temperature." Go to climate(dot)nasa(dot)gov and find out THE REAL THRUTH. There are real DATA about: artic sea ice, carbon dioxide, sea level, global temperature,ozone hole...or go to infowars

  • @bamboocha923 NASA ????

    believing what NASA says its worst then believing what al gore/bush and all the other says

    if that are your sources then i cannot have a real talk with you

    when was the last time any governmental agency said the truth ? can you remember cause i cant , from my experience they are the last one that i believe to

    in such big issues

    everyone and his own belief i goes i cannot argue with you if you think what they are saying is true , they are not different from news

  • @WishingBones hahahaahah, Oh my God! You are a even worse case than i thought. Anyway, I think that National Geographic, livescience and others wont change you opinion either. It is sad to watch that people really believe in this conspiracy shit. Oil companies really did a good job convincing people that we are not to blame. Probably because that is something much nicer to hear.

  • @bamboocha923

    "Oil companies really did a good job convincing people that we are not to blame"

    why do you hold to a conspiracy based opinion with no record what so ever to what you say ?

    i gave you so many that you chose to ignore yet you give me only those conspiracy theories that oil company's pay people to convince people that global warming is not man made

    again the whole solar system is warming up to a point never seen before

    a monkey can research and find this

  • @WishingBones First of all, dont get me wrong coz i am not trying to offend you but you dont know shit about climatology, physics and some politics. It is hard to debate with someone who listens some moron, who is sitting in chair sorounded with a few monitors and a microphone and who is validating some random dudes opinions. You will listen rather that guy than NASA and others. The real irony is that in article that you were referind to ("melting on Mars") uses data provided by NASA!!!!!

  • @bamboocha923

    and you call me the worst kind ?

    i not like you have looked on all the research on the subject that you can possibly think of EVERYTHING and when it comes to the truth and not the AL GORE version (yeah go believe him)

    it is not man made and its not only on planet earth

    there are SO MANY proofs for this that its ridicules to think its man made

    because people like you governmental taxes are boosted and added and the

    rest of us need to pay

    maybe its time to dig deeper ?

  • @bamboocha923 please im not here to fight with any of you people im here to inform you . ego is what holds the planet from knowing the truth after people fall into a lie its so hard to let go from that lie cause then they think it says that the man who says other wise thinks he is smarter that got nothing to do with that i don't want people to get sucked into this propaganda one more time we still have time here a start google : melting on mars please ! its time to wake up !
  • @WishingBones You are constatly refering to a theory that I showed you to be a quack. They are using SOME data provided by NASA but not all of them because they can manipulate the facts (and I think you said that NASA is worse that Bush/Gore, even though the way Bush was running things, I dont think he was an enviromentalist). Abdussamatov's theories are generally not accepted among most of the scientists.

  • @WishingBones "ego is what holds the planet from knowing the truth" that is the one thing that we agree on. I didnt called a worst kind, i told you that you are even a worse case than I thought. And the stuff about the oil companies: To say that this is a conspiracy and a fact with no proof... Do you know why the eletric car was beaten by a gas fueled car? Why were the trams destroyed in USA? Watch the documentary "who killed the eletric car" and do some research

  • @bamboocha923

    its sad that you don't know what your talking about and nothing on the subject yet you hold such a belief that what you think its true

    brother the data is not only from NASA but every space program there is shows the same thing the solar system is getting warmer now thats my friends a fact

    but it seems that people like you will rather listen to the governmental nonsense then to do a research on the real reason

    yeah Al Gore is right its man made go ahead have a good life

  • @bamboocha923

    to tell you the truth if it was other issue like swine flu vaccination i wouldn't care really you can also listen to them about that hey if they didn't lie about the global warming why would they lie about vaccine that damage your health right ?

    the problem people like me face with dealing with people like you is , the result of

    people believing this nonsense will effect all of us via green gas taxes and much more that i wont go into

    that the problem we face here

  • @bamboocha923  I really believe that is all just denial from the 60%

  • @bamboocha923 Stupid is as stupid gets weeded out by social darwinism. Would American then fall if say everyone~ in this country was stupid?

  • @bamboocha923 and those 1% of scientists were paid by exxon mobile.

  • @bamboocha923 99% of scientists? That's quite a blanket statement. Can you list over 100 scientists? I can give you a list of 31,000 scientists who signed a petition agreeing that Global Warming is NOT anthropomorphic. If you do NOT know what that word means, then you have absolutely no business in the climate change debate. Watching one documentary does not make anyone an expert on anything. Dont recommend documentaries to support your theory bashing another documentary.. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH

  • @BomaBoi Dude, my post is 1 year old. Anyway, I did my research. ----> climate(.)nasa(.)gov <------ just one of the sites with REAL SCIENTIFIC DATA!

    I cant believe that there are still people who believe that that list is not fake... Well, send me the list. And there are enough YouTube videos about that list so I will leave people to have their own conclusions. Alex Jones makes good fiction movies, not documentaries.

  • @bamboocha923 Ya sorry if I sound like a bitch. This just really interests me. Anywho, I HATE alex jones. Just saying. Can you do independent research separate from the Government? Our government is LOOKING for global warming, so they give out grants to research that will prove them right. Try youtube "lord christopher Monckton" if you really have time. He is really eloquent and can articulate the problem/solutions quite effectively. And that list is not fake.. BTW.

    Cheers mate =)

  • @BomaBoi 1% (one percent!!!) of those who signed the list have a background in climatology. About 5% have a background in atmospheric science. And even those 5% are questionable. There a lot of names on that petition whose backgrounds cannot be checked in any way. When you give out Monckton as your reliable source... this really shows how much you know. Why believing NASA when you can believe a guy who was hosted in popular science shows such as the glenn beck and alex jones show...

  • @bamboocha923 Well can you list how many people are in the IPCC? And of those people, how many actually are climatologists, meteorologists, ect.. Under 500.. The e-mails at CRU (Climate Research Unit). a main researching hub for the IPCC, were hacked. The hacked e-mails revealed that the CRU falsified data to fit a "global warming" trend for the CO2 emission/temperature increase in the past century. THEY LIED!! Climate gate proves the lies about anthropomorphic global warming.

  • @BomaBoi "Well can you list how many people are in the IPCC?" You can do that yourself, I'm not gonna lose my time on proving some things to you. It is obvious that you only know information from one source. You are a perfect example of people who learn about something ONLY from the internet and accept them as facts without any checking. There are pictures of arctic ice somewhere on NASA's web page. If that isn't enough for you than we got nothing more to debate about.

  • @bamboocha923 Actually, I sincerely believe that you "only know information from one source".. Ive seen An inconvenient truth (which was sued for lying by a judge in Britian), seen the IPCC models/graphs, and also seen alot more. Lord Christopher Monckton, John Coleman (founder of the weather channel). CO2 makes up less than .0001% atmo. Cap and trade taxes businesses for billions. Food prices go up.. 100,000+ die because of malnutrition/starvation. I dont think it is worth it =(

  • @BomaBoi "Has been sued" but did they win in the lawsuit? What is the court ruling? Energy efficiency is something that I know a lot about, and will definitely be my occupation in the future. Oil lobbyists are most influential in the USA and I am not surprised that people don't know the real truth. If you watch some documentaries and surf the internet, that isn't nearly enough to know the truth. This is something you have to be involved in so you can recognize fact from fiction.

  • @bamboocha923 Sorry bro but I think you have my position confused a little bit. I am all for energy efficiency and alternative energy. However, I believe these innovations have to happen in the market place, NOT from government intervention and ESPECIALLY not from government sanctions (cap and trade) on business. Even the IPCC stated that cap and trade along with a few trillion dollars will be INSIGNIFICANT in the curving of future carbon emissions. Its futile. And yes the judge did win the suit

  • @BomaBoi "And yes the judge did win the suit" I google searched about the lawsuit and it is based upon 9 or 11 inaccuracies in the film. So, there are 9 or facts in the movie which are exaggerated or innacurate so THE WHOLE thing about global warming is infulenced by people is nonsense? I will always admit if some facts are BS propaganda, but COME ON! Denialists use 9 inaccuracies in some documentary, e-mails drawn out of context, stupid petitions while they don't have REAL scientific data

  • @bamboocha923 Actually, there are 35 lies in the film. The British Judge at the time, was only able to indicate 9 of them.. Since new science models have appeared, 35 discrepancies have been found. Ive grown tired of arguing. I just sincerely hope in 10 years when they come out with global cooling, you will remeber "BomaBoi" on youtube was correct =)

  • @BomaBoi "Global Cooling" will come because of imbalance in the climate and as an effect of global warming. If you know anything about global warming you should know that. That has been said in many occassions... But denialist are aware of the that fact so they are trying to convince ppl that we are in a period when world climate is cooling down and mayor "global cooling" or "the new ice age" will eventually happen. I dont visit my acc very often so sorry for the late response...

  • @bamboocha923 Its all good bro. Look, I know Alex Jones is a crazy fear monger, but what about the organizations that want and support global warming? They are fear mongers also..According to the IPCC, "In order to reduce CO2 emissions within the next decade by 1%, an investment of at least $3 trillion will be needed. However, 1% will reduction is an insignificant_factor to prevent global warming.." Even the IPCC says its not worth it to try and prevent a natural process.. Look it up =)

  • Complete and utter strawman. Total caricature of the issue through and through.

  • Humbling. This should be required viewing. From 16:00 to 17:01 it looks like a whale surfacing, yet it's as he explained an ice sheet rolling over. The sheer scale is sobering.

  • Rubbish. Ever stop to think who lived in the path of those glaciers and what they must have gone through with their homes in the way? The planet has been warming ever since the last ice age. We have nothing to do with it. Basic grade school science: Rotation of the planet on its axis, tilt of the earth, distance from the sun, and orbit of the planet around said sun. There's no such thing as a "global average" temp

  • Beautiful pictures, but they show only the last couple of miles out of many hundreds. Glaciers are viscous flows with highly variable speed, and the speed at the front (as well as the front's position) is determined by everything that happened along the glacier's entire length (and inside the inland snow heap feeding it) during millenia. Go to googlearth and watch the uniformly parallel streaks of crushed rock on the glacier's surface stretchng all the way from the source to the seashore.

  • Great points! I noticed he didn't get the pictures of all the fresh water snow being dumped on the backside of that Greenland glacier that's causing it to flow at a faster rate either. Regarding the Alaskan glaciers, there have been human artifacts found UNDER them, which means that glacier itself caused a "catastrophe" to whoever was living there; they apparently did what we need to do - adjust:)

  • man made climate change is a HOAX

  • Cool recordings!

    The planet has been heating and warming since its inception. Ego-centrism tells us we did it. Clamate Gaters tell us we do it by CO2.

    Climate change happens. Ain't nothing we can do to stop it. It will get colder soon enough. Maybe not where we NOW have glaciers, though. And maybe not in our lifetimes.

    Change happens. Glaciers LIVE. They don't just die. How can anyone claim otherwise?

    We are seeing close-ups here, not the big picture.

  • It's not Ego-centrism for you to question the unanimous conclusion of hundreds of brilliant minds backed up by countless forms of data?

  • NASA Study Shows Sun Responsible for Planet Warming watch?v=iVNg_J1HazY

  • now, a new research report from a surprising source may help to lay this skepticism to rest. A study from NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland looking at climate data over the past century has concluded that solar variation has made a significant impact on the Earths climate. The report concludes that evidence for climate changes based on solar radiation can be traced back as far as the Industrial Revolution.

  • Past research has shown that the sun goes through eleven year cycles. At the cycles peak, solar activity occurring near sunspots is particularly intense, basking the Earth in solar heat. According to Robert Cahalan, a climatologist at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Right now, we are in between major ice ages, in a period that has been called the Holocene.

  • Global Warming Ends & Ice Age Begins Antarctica Ice 2000 to 2009 Alex Jones Tv:Calling All We Are Change Members watch?v=6hbhqkZmAFU watch?v=aml6ifoVTJs PROOFNEGATIVE PT1 CLIMATEGATE INTERVIEW watch?v=xfFB8aVjX4k Al Gore Warfare Video WW111 watch?v=Gukd9FBrKCQ bush watch?v=zfiAgb0V-j4 Climate Change Hype Exposed by Hackers! ! watch?v=RgsKmR5WkUU WeAreChange NYC confronts greatest con man watch?v=ja8TIeaH2p

  • Normal Scientific Method: 1. Purpose 2. Background information 3. Hypothesis 4. Perform experiment 5. Observe results 6. Conclusion IPCC East Anglia Scientific Method: 1. Conclusion 2. Observe then delete the results and replace it with made up stuff 3. Deny science fact and embrace political method 4. Re-define peer review 5. Collect billions in government grants 6. Tax the heathens senseless AGW is baseless and is the new religion
  • Global Warming Ends & Ice Age Begins Antarctica Ice 2000 to 2009 Alex Jones Tv:Calling All We Are Change Members watch?v=6hbhqkZmAFU watch?v=aml6ifoVTJs PROOFNEGATIVE PT1 CLIMATEGATE INTERVIEW watch?v=xfFB8aVjX4k Al Gore Warfare Video WW111 watch?v=Gukd9FBrKCQ bush watch?v=zfiAgb0V-j4 Climate Change Hype Exposed by Hackers! ! watch?v=RgsKmR5WkUU WeAreChange NYC confronts greatest con man watch?v=ja8TIeaH2p

  • Hey, thanks for the link

  • hmm and what about that strange correlation between co2 rise and temperature+sealevel rise on presented graph??? present day co2 exploding does not seem to have same effect as it had before!!! it is a lot higher than before but temperature and sea level respond much easier to it.... isn't that a bit strange?????

  • what did he say elite??? elite??? whats up with all thease people that think thier eliete

  • "Elite" meaning educated and informed, not necessarily "better" than everybody else.

  • my father never went to college and barely got his high school diploma knows so much abt history most cant keep up...my sister has not finished college and has more intelictual capacity than some "world leaders"....so u tell me what thier talking abt who are the elite and i hear it more often all the time.... know one is elite just better in our own areas...but i guess u may b right

  • This video destroys whatever was left of my skepticism in regard to the basic fact of anthropogenic climate change. Bluntly, I was wrong. Thank you.

  • I'm still up in the air about the issue. I wouldn't concede to a wrong or right answer until that graphs current peak drops back down to normal levels. It looks like it is leveling off and not coming back down like in the past.

  • More smart please..

  • Hey skeptics pull your heads out of the ice you are all suffering from brain freeze. Regardless of whether this is just another natural cycle or it is a result of mans activity the facts are we are polluting this planet. The system we have created is unsustainable. The human race is heading for disaster and all you want to do is argue. It doesn't matter anyway its all out of our control. The good news is the creator of this incredible planet will not let us destroy it. Dan 2:44

  • johnstonalligator-yes, all this cold weather creates a need to burn things to keep warm. Btw - Coal is just fossilized plant material - so it doesn't make any difference what you burn - it's all "fossil fuel"

  • The wood pellets I put in my stove are "fossil fuel"? ;)

  • The only difference between your wood pellets and coal is time. They are both plant material.

  • thank you for this important work and your beautiful photos!i love this video! please send this video to everyone you know. we need to unite to make this goal possible. we are doing our part by having an online concert today at artfulchange [dot] org. you can view art work, listen to music videos by a local san francisco band and contribute to saving our planet!

  • The planet doesn't need saving.

  • Sorry "climate change"

  • ur right the argument is not about clement change its about climate change ha ha nice typo General. Ok so its just a natural cycle according to you. So I suppose all the forests we are destroying and the species of animals we are causing to become extinct and the mountains of plastic crap we are throwing in land fills the polluted atmosphere the the toxins industrialized countries are pumping into the waterways is all just a natural cycle too.. yeah right!

  • stupid americans and china pricks. caused this shit.

  • I have to laugh at all the armchair experts on this forum. The graph going back 400,000 years is, as he says, "bombproof." Also, the rapid retreat of 95% of all glaciers outside of Antactica is irrefutable. And that's not to mention that every major science academy on the planet has endorsed the concept of anthropgenic warming. It's way past time to argue about the causes and time to find solutions.

  • I believe that what we are doing as far as emitting CO2 is causing climate change, but why only show the summer months during the alaskan glacier time-lapse melting? Shock and awe based on crafty framing of these events is not something we should depend on to convince people that this is a problem...

  • Clearly you are a person of zero academic ability. Have a look again at the time lapse of the Columbia glacier - it runs through a two year time frame, inc the winter months (2007 - 2009). Also the Iceland glacier time-lapse, starts and ends in winter months (starts March, runs through two years and ends February). Do your homework before casting an opinion!

  • Take a look at the repeat photography of the Muir glacier and see what you get a short time after a glacier melts. Paradise!

  • Scientists aren't still arguing whether global warming is happening or not. Scientists and politicians are arguing whether it has a detrimental effects on civilisations and societies. Global warming is a NATURAL and essential part of the earth's climate cycle. Temperatures have fluctuated over thousands of years.

  • global warming and temperature fluctuation are 2 different things.Global warming is cause by human pollution while temperature fluctuation is just the cycle of how the earth runs. How can global warming NOT effect human civilizations, when we're already being effected by it right now. 1 example, hurricanes. Hurricanes are being stronger because the temperature of the sea has risen and now we're suffering from it shown by the death tolls from recent hurricanes.

  • 7:10 is Some interesting information

    8:50 is when the time lapse starts

    21:48 that kid looks like hes going to kill someone

  • Methinks you may be trying to convince yourself of this? Don't try too hard.

  • No, it's not. Those other peaks are caused by cyclical changes in things like the tilt and orientation of earth's axis respective to the sun, the periodic change in ellipticality of earth's orbit, and the sun's sun-spot cycle, which we can all predict with relative precision. The peak we're seeing now does not match that pattern. Plus, we know roughly how much of the greenhouse gasses we're pumping into the atmosphere simply by measuring it.

  • Eloquent in its brevity. Got any evidence to back up that chestnut of wisdom?

  • o que será ensinado no dia já calculado depois que a calota polar derreter e se esparramar e a agua do mar se elevar e por fim atravessar a avenida à beira-mar o terreo e o primeiro andar? o que vamos ensinar? A oração? fatorar? O cerrado? Calabar? Que mais é preciso haver Para derreter o proceder o teor e o andor do programa do professor? Qual vai ser a avaliação Quando em vez de uma fração De 1/6 da população Como é hoje a situação A fome for a maldição De qualquer nação
  • Bush Lying?...*gasp*...no way!

  • Science is not arguing about that?! So...was President Bush lying when he said the science was not in yet? Where was Joe Wilson there?

  • I am tired of these morons who watch to much of alex jones claiming that this climate change is a normal thing. It is normal to some degree but not to this degree when in 75 minutes there is a humongous chunk of ice being dumped into the ocean. Those people on the video are REAL scientists who have real education and preform real experiments... not some douche-bags who read a lot of bullshit on the internet and consider that as real knowledge.

  • bamboocha923-do not confuse the calving with melting. The melting took a great deal longer than 75 minutes; it took many years. And you need to consider what was going on at the other end of the glacier to cause it to increase its flow. He didn't cover that in the video, did he? He only covered this end of the story. A little lopsidded, don't you think?

  • well, i will admit that i dont have a wast knowledge of this topic but im not pretending to be an expert like some morons (like a. jones) who think that they are right. There are a lot of scientist who support global warming theory and those who dont. Last week I went to a seminar on my university and the conclusion was that it is a hoax. Then, the profesor who had the seminar, was being accused for missguiding people with incomplete data by some other guy. The truth is that we dont know... yet

  • The truth is, we do know, but there are people with a vested financial interest in ignoring climate change, and they will hire people with sketchy credentials to say what they need inserted into the discourse to confuse and distract the general population.

  • I have sketchy credentials and would love to be paid for distracting the general population. Why doesn't anyone make me an offer? Hello? Anyone with a vested interest? Seriously, though, it's a bad market for skilled theory assassins. Most of the junk we see nowadays can be debunked by simply inquiring about the raw data. That's true of all sciences, not only climate. No need to hire anyone; it has become a DIY job.

  • @tgrigsby7 Also in the pro camp! More so on the pro camp ;)

  • @bamboocha923 if you was an expert you wouldn't be caling a jones a moron ;)

  • i think i would... i know i would

  • @bamboocha923 No! You wouldn't! It just proves how dumb, nieve and conceited you are!

  • woow, this is straight in the hearth... In a few years I will have a masters degree in civil engineering but you cant debate with all those smart people claiming that 911 was a controlled demolition. Coz, they know and I am a dumbass who is spending almost all his time learning the science of civil engineering. Same things go for global warming. Most of the conspiracy theorist will say that these things are very simple and provide you with false or incomplete information which you gladly swallow

  • Which I gladly swallow? If you say so.....And i never did a masters in Environmental politics....;) jog on!

  • my point is: If you dont have a proper education and a proper job, dont debate over certain topics with people with some information you heard/rad/seen that is (probably) not 100 percent truth, accurate or verified. And please, dont insult people you dont know when you run out of proper responses, just admit that you could be wrong or at least be more thorough.

  • Then you in your arrogance never read/understood my post......

  • I did understand your post, I just dont believe you. Please, send me proof in a private message that you really have that kind of education, and will send you mine. And I promise I wont send anything to the Illuminati ;)

  • Or what was going on under and above the glacier to cause the accelerated flow. There is more flowing water underneath the ice, lubricating the flow, and there's less ice accumulating on top of the glacier, making it lighter. Lighter, more slippery = faster glacier.

  • Flowing water underneath the glacier is "lubricating" the flow??? Please, tell me from which scientific articles you got that so i can read them... and i really mean that with no disrespct. And I mean no disrespect by asking this, but are you a scientist or someone who does daily job and whos education include areas reagarding climate, geotehnical and geological and similar areas of studies? Same goes for user anoniab

  • Aw, come on - not even the ice in my driveway does that during the spring melt.

  • All planets in our system are heating up.Who burns fossil fuel on Mars or Jupiter?

    Maybe a right time to disclose clean energy,you greedy motherfuckers?

  • Well some are and some aren't, we really don't know too much about it anyway. I don't think that global warming is a problem at all, but if you make an argument that can be refuted, we will lose.

  • To sum up what was previously said, yeah.

    Correlation != causation.