Movies | August 02, 2011 | 7 comments

Glacial Balance: documentary on the melting Andes

source: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ethansteinman/glacial-balance?ref=video

JanforGore
Glacial Balance is a documentary film showing the effects climate change is having on Andean glaciers and the lives of those who depend on them for survival. In the film, we travel along the spine of the Andes mountain range, from Argentina to Colombia, getting to know the lives of those who will be first affected by the dwindling glacier reserve, the "canaries in the mine".

For our journey we will be accompanied by an international team of glaciologists and paleoclimatologists who will give us a perspective on what is really happening and what we can expect. And from that, we will learn of the chain reaction effect that these disappearing glaciers are already having on the rest of us.

THE FILM INCLUDES INTERVIEWS WITH

•Dr. Lonnie Thompson, a paleoclimatologist who has dedicated the past 30+ years of his life drilling out tubes of ice from the tops of glaciers around the world. In his laboratory in Ohio, Dr. Thompson holds an archive of ice and climate dating 100's of thousands of years into the past. Through the study of these ice cores, scientists have been able to determine the composition of the atmosphere looking nearly a million years into the past.

•Al Gore, Former U.S. Vice President, who helps us understand the importance of Dr. Lonnie Thompson's work and the urgency of the situation.

•Mark Carey - Author of "In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers" and Assistant Professor of History - University of Oregon

•Dr. Paolo Gabrielli, Byrd Polar Research Center - The Ohio State University

•Maxime Litt, Glaciologist at IRD - La Paz, Bolivia

•Dr. Keith Mountain, Assistant Professor of GeoSciences - University of Louisville

•Benjamin Morales Arnao, Geologist - Huaraz, Peru

•Cesar Portocarrero, Glaciologist - Huaraz, Peru

•Dario Trombotto, Geologist at IANIGLA - Mendoza, Argentina

•Dr. Victor Zagorodnov, Byrd Polar Research Center - The Ohio State University

•Marco Zapata Luyo, Glaciologist - Huaraz, Peru

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