Acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate control, but no more. As a result of his his multi-year Extreme Ice Survey project, he has documented irrefutable proof of the changes that global warming is wreaking on our planet. In Jeff Orlowski's new documentary, "Chasing Ice," Balog's revolutionary time-lapse photography records what is happening to the world's glaciers. His hauntingly beautiful images compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking (and terrifying rate.
Traveling with a team of young adventurers across the brutal Arctic, Balog relentlessly pursues one of the biggest stories facing humanity, a story that has polarized many in this country. I sat down with Balog and Orlowski in a Los Angeles hotel room, far from the life-threatening environments where they've spent the past several years working on this powerful film.
Oh, but that's the fun stuff!
I know! Some of that seems like a distant memory now and I'm grieving the fact that we're not still out there in the field!
Absolutely not! It was not part of the mindset at all.
I really had to twist his arm!
We had enough to worry about just getting out there to do our work. I didn't want to think about another camera crew or any additional fundraising. We were already financially stretched to the limit!
It took a while to win him over, but when I realized we had a really compelling story, I brought a team on including the producer who did "The Cove." And I told James that we'd do all the fundraising, he wouldn't have to think about any of that.
I thought he was smoking dope at the time…but he's a confident devil and manages to pulls things off that seem pretty impossible!
Oh, certainly. And there were a lot of days where the weather was so bad we didn't even try to go out there.
Yeah, in some of those storms, if you tried to go out and shoot, the cameras would be ruined in about twenty minutes.
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