Glacial Melting (Week 7) - Post 3

Glacial Melting Due to Climate Change / Chasing Ice Documentary Thoughts 

          This week I watched a documentary called Chasing Ice, it was an incredible documentary, I learned a lot, but at the same time it was very impactful. What really helped with the learning this week was the images, the visuals. The documentary had an abundance of visuals where either the picture or the statistics just spoke for themselves. I found that in my second post it was hard to convey the severity and the depth to which glacial melting and weather disasters is a problem with just words. It made me realize that when you are dealing with science that is so clearly visible to the naked eye, its hard to not just say, "go look at the pictures, go watch the videos". But, at the same time I realized that without the explanation those images wouldn't be so impactful. In order to change people's minds about climate change the explanations and visuals need to be presented equally. I think that is the strategy I am going use when approaching my end of the year presentation. 
           The documentary did a very good job of covering a wide range of oppositions and presenting undeniable evidence, however there is one thing I would like to look into that I felt was not discussed enough. That is the few glaciers that are growing. A majority of glaciers are melting and it is percent due to climate change, however for the few glaciers that are growing I would like to know how. Global temperatures have increased so what has happened where these few glaciers can grow. The few glaciers that are growing are used as one of the main points for climate change deniers, so I would like to know what has caused that to happen besides natural variability. 

 

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  1. Ms. DunleyApril 17, 2018 at 1:14 PM

    Do you think you would be interested in creating science documentaries as a career? Is it odd that only four grew while hundreds shrunk? (I think you said 4 grew, right? )

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    1. neve stegerApril 18, 2018 at 11:36 AM

      I think that raising awareness to create change is definitely a possible career path, and documentaries are a really great way to do that. I have never really thought of making the documentaries myself, but that is a worthy skill I could pursue. I don't think it's odd that four glaciers grew only because with anything in nature there is always going to be natural variability. The general trend is that the glaciers are dying, and only four growing out of over a thousand fits in with that.

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