The Canary In The Coal Mine: Climate Change in Time Lapse Photography

by: Edger

Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 20:23

Crossposted from Antemedius

"Ninety five percent of the glaciers in the world are retreating or shrinking... there is no scientific dispute about that"

Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change. (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2009, July 2009 in Oxford, England. Duration: 19:22)