'Chasing Ice': filming the effects of global warming

FALLBROOK – The award-winning film 'Chasing Ice' documents the rapid decline in the ice sheets and glaciers of the Arctic and the USA. It provides proof that climate change is happening right now. The film is offered by the Fallbrook Climate Action Team on June 15 at 6 p.m. in the Fallbrook Public Library, 124 S. Mission Road.

Using time lapse photography over a period of over five years and multiple locations, the film contains breath-taking views of the moving ice, all done requiring extreme techniques by fearless photographers.

The film is by Jeff Orlowski, recording the efforts on the Extreme Ice Survey by a team led by acclaimed National Geographic photographer James Balog. With great patience, resisting extreme cold and damage to instruments, they recorded the exposure of the rock underlying retreating glaciers, losses of hundreds of feet in ice height and calving of glaciers to produce giant icebergs.

The 75-minute film won an Emmy for Nature Programming in 2013.