Watch A Mile Of 3,000-Foot-High Ice Fall Into The Ocean

[RollingThunder]

Here's a fascinating short clip from the award winning movie "Chasing Ice". Stunning!

Watch A Mile Of 3,000-Foot-High Ice Fall Into The Ocean

On May 28, 2008, Adam LeWinter and Director Jeff Orlowski filmed a historic breakup at the Ilulissat Glacier in Western Greenland. The calving event lasted for 75 minutes and the glacier retreated a full mile across a calving face three miles wide. The height of the ice is about 3,000 feet, 300-400 feet above water and the rest below water.



Chasing Ice won the award for Excellence in Cinematography at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and the Best Documentary from the International Press Association. It has won over 30 awards at festivals worldwide.

 

[SSDD]

Funny thing....this has been happening for quite some time.... Can you imagine the size of the pieces that were breaking off back in the early 20th century when the glaciers were really retreating?

 

[Crick]

Funny thing....this has been happening for quite some time.... Can you imagine the size of the pieces that were breaking off back in the early 20th century when the glaciers were really retreating?

If its been happening for some time, at an even greater pace, why had calving on this scale never before been witnessed?

 

[SSDD]

Funny thing....this has been happening for quite some time.... Can you imagine the size of the pieces that were breaking off back in the early 20th century when the glaciers were really retreating?

If its been happening for some time, at an even greater pace, why had calving on this scale never before been witnessed?

How many people actually camp out on a glacier to film it? How long had he been there? Most calving events are filmed from boats just passing by. Do you really think that is the largest piece of ice that has ever broken off a glacier? For someone who fancies himself as one of the smartest people in the room, your thinking is incredibly shallow.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Funny thing....this has been happening for quite some time.... Can you imagine the size of the pieces that were breaking off back in the early 20th century when the glaciers were really retreating?

If its been happening for some time, at an even greater pace, why had calving on this scale never before been witnessed?

Really?

Greater than when all of America north of Ohio was covered by ice?

"Did you see that ice sheet fall in the area that will be Cleveland?"

"Unprecedented I tell ya! This Global Warming stuff is fo' real!"

 

[skookerasbil]

Thunder......great post!!!

That is a sIcK vid!!

 

[RollingThunder]

Funny thing....this has been happening for quite some time.... Can you imagine the size of the pieces that were breaking off back in the early 20th century when the glaciers were really retreating?

You are such a lying nutjob!

There is no evidence of any significant glacial retreat in the "early 20th century". Certainly nothing like the current massive loss of glacial ice mass and the complete disappearance of some glaciers that is happening in most places all around the world.

In that video, they show that the glacier they were filming had retreated only 8 miles in a century, from 1900 to 2000, but had recently retreated 9 miles in only a decade, from 2000 to 2010.