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A FILM BY JEFF ORLOWSKI

From the Producer of the Academy Award Winning “The Cove”

Winner Excellence in Cinematography – Sundance Film Festival 2012 Audience Award Festival Favorites – SXSW 2012 Audience Award – River Run Film Festival 2012 People’s Choice Award – Hot Docs Film Festival 2012 Audience Award – Berkshire Film Festival 2012 Audience Award – Palo Alto Film Festival 2012 Audience Award – Berwick Film Festival 2012 Audience Award – Port Townsend Film Festival 2012 Norman Vaughan Indomitable Spirit Award – Mountainfilm Telluride 2012 Best Feature Film – Big Sky Film Festival 2012 Nicholas School Environmental Award – Full Frame Film Festival 2012 Best Adventure Film – Boulder International Film Festival 2012 Special Jury Award – Torino Film Festival 2012 Honorable Mention by Jury – CinemAmbiente Film Festival 2012 Environmental Media Award 2012

Other Film Festivals Sundance London 2012 Ashland Film Festival 2012 Sarasota Film Festival 2012 Sheffield Film Festival 2012 Silverdocs Film Festival 2012 Nantucket Film Festival 2012

Original Song “BEFORE MY TIME” Music and Lyrics by J. Ral;ph Performed by Scarlett Johansson & Joshua Bell 1

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SYNOPSIS

Acclaimed environmental photographer was once a skeptic about and a cynic about the nature of academic research. But through his , he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In , Balog deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing . His hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate.

Traveling with a team of young adventurers across the brutal Arctic, Balog risks his career and his wellbeing in pursuit of the biggest story facing humanity. As the debate polarizes America, and the intensity of natural disasters ramps up globally, Chasing Ice depicts a heroic photojournalist on a mission to deliver fragile hope to our carbon- powered planet.

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“You’ve never seen images like this before…it deserves to be seen and felt on the big screen.” – Robert Redford

Q&A WITH DIRECTOR JEFF ORLOWSKI

Talk about how “Chasing Ice” came to you as a film. How did you get involved? I was connected to James Balog through a good mutual friend, and we met on occasion in Boulder, every time I visited. I was a photographer, and a huge fan of James’s work, and really wanted to work with him. In 2007, he started his project called the Extreme Ice Survey and I offered to help for free. I went with him and a team to when he started installing his first time lapse cameras, and I filmed the entire trip. It was mostly just to document what he was doing, and to have a record of the project. Then I went with him to , and then , and then kept traveling with him, filming everywhere we went.

Over time, we had collected a great archive of the project, and I knew we could make a great film out of it. There have been so many efforts to document climate change, but this one was unique As James’s time-lapses started to come back from the field, we knew the project was working. So I put all my efforts into making a feature doc, built a world-class team to support me, and spent the next few years dedicated to ice.

Can you talk about your relationship with James Balog and what it is about his work that you were drawn to? James is an incredible mentor and friend. He’s a perfectionist and will stop at nothing to create an image. But it’s not just about making a photograph. For him, it’s really about what the image is saying. What it means. And then how that can be communicated to the viewer. He has had a profound influence on my life, and unquestionably he’s been my greatest artistic influence. I think he is one of the greatest artistic minds of our generation.

How many locations did you shoot at and how did you select them? The list is too long! Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, National Park in Montana, the Alps, , ... Wherever James went, we followed. James selected the locations to install his time-lapse cameras based on wanting to capture a very broad representation of glaciers all around the world. He wanted his Extreme Ice Survey to show people how glaciers are

3 responding everywhere--not just in one small region; so we followed him everywhere. Beyond the work in the field, we filmed scientists and experts all around the country who could help explain why James’s work is so critical.

What were your biggest challenges during filming? The biggest challenge was the harsh environments. We had weather as low as negative 30 degrees. One winter night in Greenland, I thought I was going to freeze to death in our cabin. Our heater was leaking gas so we decided to go to sleep without it. I woke up in the middle of the night from my own teeth chattering. I rubbed my body to stay warm, and suffered until sunrise. But as cold as it was, and as difficult as it may seem, that was all the fun stuff. I’d do it all again in a heartbeat. I’d much rather be out shooting than editing!

This is your first feature length film after directing some shorts. Can you speak to how the process on Chasing Ice differed from your previous films? At the beginning of this project, I had no idea how big it would eventually become. We just started shooting, and we captured what was going on. We did what needed to be done, and over time, the project got bigger and bigger. All of my previous projects were tiny compared to Chasing Ice. Even a 40-minute narrative film I made seems like cake in retrospect. There were so many times when I thought we were close to being done and then after doing a test screening, we realized that we had major structural problems, or we realized that we needed to do more interviews, or something else. It grew to a scope and a scale that was beyond the original goal, and it was so much more work than we originally expected. But it was all worth it, and our entire team is really proud of what we have created.

Chasing Ice” features some very moving images of how climate change is impacting our natural world. What do you hope audiences take away from the film? As James says, he wants people to realize that these images are visual evidence of climate change. His time-lapses capture that process in action. It’s really hard for the average person to see the impact that humans have on the planet, especially when we live in a huge, beautiful country like America. You can drive across the States and spend days just looking out at huge

4 open fields, and think, “how is my little car supposed to be having some sort of impact on all of that?” Yet what James has documented is that visual record. It’s something that people can see and feel that represents what the science has concluded. Glaciers may seem really far away, in a distant world that nobody ever goes to, yet we humans are changing them. I hope that Chasing Ice can take James’s work and make it real for people; to take the beautiful world of ice and to make it tangible and bring it close to home. If it helps change how people think about their relationship to nature, and how human beings exist on this planet, I’ll consider it a success.

FILMMAKER BIOS

JEFF ORLOWSKI Director/Producer

In 2007, Jeff Orlowski got his first taste of the Arctic when as a Stanford student he seized an opportunity to work as a videographer with National Geographic photographer James Balog on the initial expedition of The Extreme Ice Survey (EIS). That winter, the EIS team scouted and filmed glaciers that now appear in the documentary feature film Chasing Ice.

Orlowski, a New York native, has been filming the EIS project around the world, working in some of the most extreme conditions imaginable on locations in Iceland, Greenland, Bolivia, the Alps, Alaska, and Glacier National Park, Montana.

Jeff’s previous work has taken him to the Tour de France for a behind-the-scenes documentary, and he has photographed and filmed a number of people including , Jane Goodall, and Nelson Mandela.

Orlowski’s Geocaching: From the Web to the Woods won Best Short Doc at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival 2006 in Birmingham, Alabama. In 2008, he won the Best Editing award for his last film The Strange Case at the Action on Film Festival, Pasadena, California.

Orlowski’s imagery has exhibited at The Denver Museum of Nature and Science; The Aspen Institute; The Scripps Institute; The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, 2009; and before the U.S Congress on Capitol Hill.

In 2009, Orlowski founded Exposure, a film production company dedicated to socially relevant filmmaking, with an eye towards issues important to humanity. Clients have included: General Motors/Saturn; Apple Inc.; The Jane Goodall Institute; Stanford University; and The Race Across America.

Jeff lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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PAULA DUPRE’ PESMEN Producer

Paula DuPré Pesmen worked for more than 16 years as an Associate Producer for filmmaker Chris Columbus and . During that time, she was a part of many successful feature film projects including Rent, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Bicentennial Man, Stepmom, , Nine Months, Mrs. Doubtfire, 2: Lost in New York.

DuPre’ Pesmen began working in 2005 as a documentary producer with Oceanic Preservation Society in her hometown of Boulder with director Louie Psihoyos to bring his vision to the screen for the Academy Award® winning The Cove. The film premiered at Sundance and later went on to win awards at dozens of film festivals world-wide. For The Cove, she was also honored with the Producer of the Year 2010 award by the Producer’s Guild of America.

Since 2009, DuPre’ Pesmen has been producing the documentary Chasing Ice with director Jeff Orlowski, bringing the beautiful and haunting images to the screen through the work of National Geographic photographer, James Balog.

In 2005, DuPre’ Pesmen conceived and founded a non-profit, There With Care, which supports families facing the critical illness of their children. She was inspired by a program she started with director Chris Columbus during work on the first three Harry Potter Films, where over 65 families whose children wished to see the filming, visited the films’ sets. There With Care has served thousands in its seven years of existence.

In June, 2011, DuPre’ Pesmen named a Local Hero by Oprah Winfrey’s O’ Magazine and the organization was awarded the E-Cheivment Award by NPR’s E-Town Radio as well as the local honors The Pace Setter Award and Boulder Magazine’s REAL Award for Organization of the Year. In February of 2012, There With Care opened the new chapter of the non-profit serving patients in the Northern California region.

Paula lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband, author Curtis Pesmen and their two sons.

JERRY ARONSON Producer

Jerry Aronson is an independent filmmaker who, over the last three decades, has established his reputation as a Producer, Director, and film instructor.

His films include the 1978 Academy Award-nominated, The Divided Trail, which follows the lives of four Native Americans who lived in the urban heart of Chicago. Aronson spent eight years documenting the struggles of these people who, encouraged by the government to leave their reservation and start a new life in the city, found themselves all but overwhelmed in a constant struggle to learn new ways and still maintain their identities. After The Divided Trail was nominated it was soon broadcast on PBS in a special series, Matters of Life and Death, in 1980. Jerry was also chosen to be a Directing Fellow at the American Film Institute in 1981.

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Aranson also directed a six-hour documentary miniseries America's Music: The Roots of Country, which examines the evolution of this American music form from its origins in Appalachia to its current preeminence as a billion-dollar industry. America's Music: The Roots of Country aired on TBS and TNT in 1996.

Aronson first completed The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg in 1993, when it had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. The feature-length documentary premiered at Sundance, had a US theatrical run and has since been exhibited at over 250 international film festivals, had a world-wide television and DVD release, and has helped establish Aronson's reputation as an outstanding documentary filmmaker. He edited a one hour version of the film for the PBS series American Masters which aired the film in 1997. The Ginsberg film won the prestigious International Documentary Association Award of Excellence in 1994. The film was revised after Ginsberg’s passing and the final cut was completed for the tribute DVD which was released in 2007.

Aronson has taught filmmaking in Chicago at Columbia College and at the University of Illinois. In 1973 he was instrumental in creating the award-winning Film Production Department at the University of Colorado. Jerry specialized in teaching the short narrative and the personal documentary which opened many students to the possibility of becoming both narrative and documentary filmmakers. In 2006 Jerry won the University of Colorado Award for Teaching. He retired from teaching in 2008. He is now very excited to be a Producer on a new feature documentary on climate change entitled Chasing Ice, directed by Jeff Orlowski.

DAVID AND LINDA CORNFIELD Executive Producers

David and Linda Cornfield are philanthropists and environmentalists who believe in the power of travel to learn about the world, and in the power of photography to spark curiosity and foster insights and understanding. They view the stunning cinematography in Chasing Ice as a vehicle to connect deeply with a broad audience, and to create a visceral, emotional understanding of climate change. The Cornfields support education initiatives that enhance people’s ability to innovate and to solve complex, real-world problems; their environmental work focuses on pragmatic, sustainable approaches to better stewardship of the earth.

STACY SHERMAN Associate Producer

Stacy Sherman, native of Los Angeles, is an award winning writer/director.

Sherman Co-Wrote, Co-Produced and Co-Directed the documentary God Sleeps In Rwanda, which chronicles the story of five survivors, whose lives were irrevocably altered,10 years after the Rwandan genocide. Sold to HBO, God Sleeps in Rwanda was nominated for an Academy Award and won an Emmy.

As a writer, Sherman has sold screenplays to Twentieth Century Fox, Tri-Star Entertainment & Warner Bros. She co-wrote the screenplay, ONE FOR THE MONEY, based on the best selling book series by Janet Evanovich. The feature film, which stars Katherine Heigl, released by LakeShore Entertainment & Lionsgate, opens this month.

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In addition to writing films and documentaries, Sherman is a lyricist, collaborating with local Los Angeles musicians, Kemble Walters (Kemble Walters & The Blank Faces) & Dave McNally, and English composer Daniel Heath.

She is mother to two intelligent, sensitive and mostly well-behaved children, save incidents such as last night, where the 10 year old threw a card box yogurt top at his 15-year old sister.

BILLY RAY Associate Producer

Billy Ray wrote and directed the films “Shattered Glass” and “Breach.” He also co-wrote the upcoming Lions Gate release “The Hunger Games” as well as “FlightPlan” and “State of Play.” He is currently writing “Captain Phillips” for Sony (shooting begins in March with Tom Hanks starring and Paul Greengrass directing), and “The Thin Man” for Warner Bros. (Johnny Depp starring, Rob Marshall directing), “Peter Pan” for Sony Pictures, Joe Roth Producing “Untitled WW 11” project for JJ Abrams, as well as the feature version of “24” for Fox.

JAMES BILLMAIER Associate Producer

James Billmaier is the author of the recently released JOLT! The Impending Dominance of the Electric Vehicle and Why America Must Take Charge. James is a founding partner of Charge Northwest, a company focused on hardware, software and consulting solutions for electric vehicle charging infrastructure; a founding partner in Patent Navigation, Inc an intellectual property advisory company; and recently Chairman and CEO of Melodeo, Inc, the leading cloud based media platform company acquired by the Hewlett Packard Corporation in late 2010. James is a 30 year technology veteran and inventor of over 80 granted and pending patents. James currently sits on the Board of Directors of two venture backed companies and is an angel technology investor as well as a Limited Partner in a Seattle based Venture Capital firm.

MARK MONROE Writer

A journalism graduate from the University of Oklahoma, Monroe began his television career in Atlanta as a CNN news writer for Headline News and Newsnight. He has since become an award- winning documentary filmmaker whose theatrical credits include: Writer, The Cove (‘Best Documentary Feature’ 2010 Academy Awards & winner ‘Best Documentary Script’, W.G.A. 2010); writer, Last Play at Shea; writer, the critically-acclaimed film, The Pat Tillman Story; writer, Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos, (W.G.A. nomination Best Documentary Script, 2007); writer Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who, and writer/director, Morning Light, Disney Pictures 2008. In addition, Monroe has produced over fifty hours of biography-style television including: Fearless (Outdoor Life Network); Beyond the Glory (Fox Sports Net); Behind the Music (Vh1); Intimate Portrait: Oksana Baiul (Lifetime); Project Greenlight (HBO/Miramax); Titanic: Secrets Revealed, LA Medical, The Greatest: Muhammad Ali (nominated for NAACP Award); Commander in Chief: Richard Nixon, George

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Bush & Bill Clinton (Discovery/TLC); Extra (Warner Brothers TV); and Feed Your Mind (TBS). Currently, Monroe is working on numerous documentary feature films including: the seminal documentary film about Formula 1 Racing called 1 for Spitfire Pictures; a hard-hitting emotional tale about Somali pirates called Stolen Seas; The Summit, which chronicles the deadliest season on K2, the second highest and the most dangerous mountain to climb in the world; Mission Blue, a documentary about renowned ocean activist Sylvia Earle's wish to save our oceans and our planet; My Decision, a feature length doc about human nature and the decision making process; Chasing Ice, which profiles one photographer's quest to document climate change worldwide in action by time lapse of melting glaciers; and The Singing Planet, academy award winner, Louis Psihoyos' follow-up film to The Cove.

Monroe is the winner for Best Documentary Script, The Cove 2010 W.G.A. Other awards include Grammy Awards nomination Best Long-form Music Video Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who, WGA nomination “Best Documentary Script” Jan 07, Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos, Slamdance Top 10 Scripts 2007, My Name is Sue (narrative screenplay), Best Screenplay October 2006 My Name is Sue La Femme Film Festival Beverly Hills, NAACP nomination for The Greatest: Muhammad Ali, Austin Heart of Film Festival Audience Choice Best Documentary for Mutzie’s Wedding. www.diamonddocs.net

J. RALPH Composer/Songwriter

J. Ralph (American born, New York 1975) is a self-taught composer, singer, songwriter and producer whose career began at 22 with signing to Atlantic Records as a Recording Artist. He is the founder of the internationally award winning production company The Rumor Mill and has written and produced the music for numerous Grammy winning Artists, Oscar® winning films and The President of The United States, Barack Obama.

In addition to his original score for CHASING ICE, J. Ralph also wrote and produced the original end title song “BEFORE MY TIME” performed by Scarlett Johansson and Joshua Bell.

J. Ralph is well known for his documentary work including the scores to the back to back Academy Award® winning films THE COVE and followed by 2012's Oscar® nominated documentary HELL AND BACK AGAIN, for which he also created the sound design and wrote and produced the end title song “HELL AND BACK” performed by Willie Nelson.

Other recent film projects include the scores to the soon to be released film MALADIES staring James Franco, Catherine Keener, David Strathairn and Alan Cumming and the autism documentary WRETCHES AND JABBERERS by Oscar® winning director Gerardine Wurzburg. In addition to writing the score for WRETCHES & JABBERERS, J. Ralph also wrote and produced 20 original songs featuring collaborations with Antony (of Antony and the Johnsons), Devendra Banhart, Paul Brady, Bonnie Bramlett, Vashti Bunyan, Martin Carthy, Judy Collins, Lila Downs, Vincent Gallo, David Garza, Ben Harper, Scarlett Johansson, Nic Jones, Norah Jones, Leah Siegel, Carly Simon, Stephen Stills, Ben Taylor & Bob Weir.

J. Ralph’s music encompasses a wide variety of genres and mediums. He is a fellow of Yale

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University and the only composer ever to win two consecutive A.I.C.P. awards. Several of his works are included in the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection of film and media in New York City.

DAVIS COOMBE Editor

Davis Coombe began his professional career by directing, filming, and editing Stagestruck: Crossing the Greeenroom, a 3-hour chronicle of conservatory actors, which was broadcast on BRAVO. Coombe then directed, produced, shot and edited the feature documentary The Tornado Dream which followed three underground rock bands over a three year period. Coombe worked as co-director and editor of Big Blue Bear (Australian Broadcasting Company, PBS, Winner of regional Emmy) and producer and editor of Wesley Willi’s Joyrides (SXSW, HotDocs) about the famed street artist and musician. Coombe edited Iron Ladies of Liberia (Toronto Film Festival 2007, Winner Banff TV Awards, Winner AFI-Dallas, Independent Lens), They Killed Sister Dorothy (Winner Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize at South by Southwest 2008, HBO Films), and he was producer, editor and camera on The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2009. He recently completed the 2012 Academy Award winning Saving Face for HBO.

Coombe is also a founding partner of Milkhaus, a production company and post facility in Denver that specializes in HD documentary content that has been broadcast on the Discovery Channel, BBC, PBS, and HBO.

ABOUT THE TEAM

JAMES BALOG Lead, Director of EIS

James Balog has been a leader in photographing, understanding and interpreting the natural environment for three decades. An avid mountaineer with a graduate degree in geography and geomorphology, James is equally at home on a Himalayan peak or a whitewater river; the African savannah or polar icecaps.

To reveal the impact of climate change, James founded the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), the most wide-ranging, ground-based, photographic study of glaciers ever conducted. National Geographic showcased this work in the June 2007 and June 2010 issues. The project is also featured in the 2009 NOVA documentary Extreme Ice, and in the feature-length documentary, Chasing Ice.

EIS has been recognized with the Heinz Award, the Missouri School of Journalism's Honor Medal for Distinguished Service, the Aspen Institute’s Visual Arts & Design Award, and the Galen and Barbara Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure. Balog has received the Leica Medal of Excellence, the International League of Conservation Photographers Award and the North American Nature Photography Association’s Outstanding Photographer of the Year award. He was named Person of the Year for 2011 by PhotoMedia magazine.

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James is the author of seven books, including Extreme Ice Now: Vanishing Glaciers and Changing Climate: A Progress Report, published by National Geographic Books in 2009. ICE: Portraits of the World’s Vanishing Glaciers, will be released in the fall of 2012.

Among his other books are Tree: A New Vision of the American Forest (2004), Wildlife Requiem (1984), Anima (1992), and Survivors: A New Vision of Endangered Wildlife (1990), which was hailed as a major conceptual breakthrough in nature photography. His work has been extensively published in most of the world’s major pictorial magazines including The New Yorker, National Geographic, Life, American Photo, Vanity Fair, Sierra, Audubon, and Outside, and is in dozens of public and private art collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Corcoran Gallery, the Denver Art Museum and the Gilman Paper Company. In 1996, James was the first photographer ever commissioned by the U.S. Postal Service to create a full sheet of stamps.

James lives in the , above Boulder, Colorado, with his wife, Suzanne, and his daughters Simone and Emily.

ADAM LEWINTER EIS Field Coordinator

Adam LeWinter joined the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) in the beginning of 2007. Prior to joining EIS he was a design engineer and machinist in Colorado and New Zealand, bringing his practical experience in product design and fabrication to the custom-made time-lapse camera packages used by EIS. In addition to working on the development and fabrication of the time-lapse equipment, Adam managed the expeditions and fieldwork for EIS, working extensively in Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, Montana, and Nepal.

LeWinter’s skills were utilized in the 2008 Discovery Channel show, Project Earth and he was featured in the 2009 NOVA production, Extreme Ice. He was also featured with James Balog in the June 2010 issue of National Geographic for their work capturing the changing landscape of the Greenland ice sheet. Over the years Adam has developed his photography through his experiences with EIS and in 2010 was offered an opportunity to work as a researcher at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab in Hanover, . His work now focuses on capturing changing landscapes using state-of-the-art LiDAR technology.

Adam lives between New Hampshire and Colorado with his lovely fiancé, Emma Louise Templeton, who is currently studying medicine at UC Denver.

SVAVATAR JONATANSSON Icelandic Field Coordinator

Born in 1981, Jonatansson lived in Denmark between the age of 6 and 10 and he grew up snowboarding and skateboarding in Iceland. Jonatansson started traveling frequently to Europe and later the United States in his early twenties where he photographed his surroundings and experiences, culminating in a personal project called Inland/Outland. He met James Balog outside an aluminum smelter in 2004 or 2005, and since then, has assisted him on the journey

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DR. TAD PFEFFER, PH.D. Scientist

Dr. Pfeffer is a glaciologist at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and professor of civil, environmental, and architectural engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research areas include the mechanics and dynamics of glaciers and heat and mass transfer in snow. He has worked on glaciers for 30 years, traveling to Alaska, Arctic Canada, Greenland, Antarctica, and mountain locations in North America and Europe. He has done fieldwork on Alaska's Columbia Glacier for two decades. Tad is also active in photography and photogrammetry of glaciers and landscapes, using imagery for both description and analysis of glacier changes. In addition to scientific publications, his photographic work has appeared in exhibitions in the Boulder/Denver area, in American Scientist, GEO (Germany), Geotimes, BBC television productions, and in the movie and book, , by Nobel laureate . Tad's book, The Opening of a New Landscape: Columbia Glacier at Mid-Retreat, was published by the American Geophysical Union in December 2007.

DR. JASON BOX, PH.D. Scientist

Dr. Box in a Nobel Peace Prize winning scientist. He has made sixteen expeditions to the Greenland ice sheet since 1994 and his time on the inland ice exceeds 1 year. He was awarded a NASA grant to support the installation and maintenance of Greenland EIS cameras. Dr. Box is active in Greenland field work for EIS and is using EIS photos from Greenland to measure glacier speed changes, putting precise numbers on glacier flow sensitivity to climate. As an authority on the relationship between Greenland glaciers and climate, he’s authored or co-authored more than 26 peer-reviewed publications directly related to ice and climate and has led, since 2003, the annual Greenland entries for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and American Meteorological Society's "State of the Climate" report. He was a contributing author to "Climate Change 2007", the definitive report on the science of global warming by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for which he was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Jason is a research scientist at Byrd Polar Research Center and associate professor in Geography at The . Jason will be sailing to Greenland from June- August 2009.

FACTS ABOUT ICE, CLIMATE CHANGE AND OUR FUTURE

GLACIER RETREAT: THE MOST VISIBLE INDICATOR OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE WORLD TODAY . Glaciers are formed when more snow falls in the winter than melts in the summer. Glaciers are excellent gauges of climate because their retreat, growth or stasis reflects regional temperature and precipitation patterns. . The vast majority of glaciers in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania are retreating due to warming temperatures and changes in precipitation patterns. . The rate of ice loss has accelerated in recent decades.

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. Glacier retreat has been documented in direct field observations by thousands of trained observers from dozens of countries (including the U.S.) and from satellite (NASA, ESA), airborne and ground-based photography (including EIS). . Glacier retreat directly and immediately affects humanity. It impacts water resources, sea level and ocean circulation. It is also an early warning of other climate change impacts now accelerating worldwide.

Evidence preserved in ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica shows that current atmospheric conditions are unprecedented in at least the past 850,000 years. Civilization has lived within a range of temperature and precipitation conditions that are now disappearing.

HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS GLACIERS, SNOW AND PEOPLE USA:* . Glacier retreat in Alaska is raising sea level faster than is the rate of ice loss in Greenland and Antarctica. . Large land areas in Chesapeake Bay, Florida and the Gulf Coast will be inundated by the end of this century. . Extreme weather events like floods, tornados, and hurricanes will be more frequent and more severe. . End-of-season snow pack in the Pacific Northwest has decreased 50% since 1950, resulting in reduced supplies for drinking water and agriculture. . Ice in Glacier National Park, Montana will disappear by 2050. Will this someday be called “the park formerly known as Glacier National Park”? . Water supply in the Colorado River basin (Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and Nevada) and Sierra Nevada watershed (California) will be more variable and will be reduced for long periods of time. . Wildfires will be more frequent and more severe, particularly in the western U.S.

*For more information, see “Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States,” U.S. Global Change Research Program, www.globalchange.gov/usimpacts

CANADA: Western Canadian glaciers are retreating rapidly. 2009 was the most severe British Columbia wildfire season in a century.

EUROPE: Most glaciers in the Alps will vanish by 2100.

ASIA: Agriculture and drinking water supplies that originate in high mountains, and are used by 1-2 billion people in Pakistan, India, China, and Southeast Asia, are undergoing large and unpredictable changes. Will this trigger social and political instability due to stress on resources? The U.S. Defense Department thinks it will.

SOUTH AMERICA: Agriculture and drinking water supplies, particularly in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile, are drying up. Will this put stress on resources and trigger social and political instability there too?

ATMOSPHERIC WARMING: Warming is greater on land than over oceans and greater at Polar Regions than lower latitudes. . Average global temperature: +1.4o F since 1900

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. Central and southwest USA: +2-4o F since 1975 . Greenland: +4.5o F since 1990 . Antarctic Peninsula: +4-6o F since 1950

UNPREDICTABLE GLOBAL CHANGES: Loss of summer ice pack in the Arctic Ocean is likely to generate atmospheric patterns never experienced by industrial or agricultural civilization.

DEPLETION OF WATER SUPPLY: Winter snow pack and glaciers are reservoirs that store water used for agriculture and drinking. We are losing this free service and either must pay to build new dams or adjust to less water availability.

SEA ICE: Sea ice has become thinner and covers less of the Arctic Ocean. The end-of-summer Arctic Ocean sea ice may well be gone by the summer of 2020. The Arctic Ocean has steadily been losing ice at a rate faster than scientific models can predict; a phenomenon known as “arctic amplification” seems to be kicking in.

SEA SURFACE WARMING: In high latitudes, warmer oceans significantly accelerate ice discharge of major glaciers and ice sheets.

SEA LEVELS RISING: The warmer the planet, the higher the sea level. The combined effect of ice loss in mountains, ice caps, Greenland and Antarctica will produce at least 1.5 to 3 feet of by 2100. At least 150 million people will be dislocated by 2100. Coastal areas, including wetlands protecting cities, will vanish. Sea level rise will continue to rise steadily after 2100.

GREENLAND: Since 1995, Ilulissat Glacier, the largest producer of icebergs in Greenland, doubled its flow speed and volume of ice discharged due to warming air and ocean temperatures.

ANTARCTICA: Ice loss is increasing. Approximately 200 gigatons flow into the ocean annually. The Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves that have been in place for many millennia are collapsing.

Sources: National Geographic, U.S. Department of Energy, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography FACTS ABOUT ICE, CLIMATE CHANGE AND OUR FUTURE, continued

Nature Isn’t Natural Anymore . Natural variation during the last million years produced an atmospheric CO2 concentration of no more than 290 ppm . CO2 is now at 392 ppm, increasing 2.5ppm annually . Our Earth is now far beyond its natural range of variation!

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CREDITS

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER JEFF ORLOWSKI

PRODUCERS PAULA DUPRE’ PESMEN JERRY ARONSON

ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS STACY SHERMAN AND BILLY RAY

EDITOR DAVIS COOMBE

WRITER MARK MONROE

MUSIC BY J. RALPH

ORIGINAL SONG “BEFORE MY TIME” MUSIC AND LYRICS BY J. RALPH PERFORMED BY SCARLETT JOHANSSON AND JOSHUA BELL

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY JEFF ORLOWSKI

PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAMES BALOG

CAST (in order of appearance) JAMES BALOG SVAVAR JÓNATANSSON LOUIE PSIHOYOS KITTY BOONE SYLVIA EARLE, PH.D. DENNIS DIMICK ADAM LEWINTER JASON BOX, PH.D. TAD PFEFFER, PH.D. SUZANNE BALOG JEFF ORLOWSKI SYNTE PEACOCK, PH.D. TERRY ROOT, PH.D. THOMAS SWETNAM, PH.D. PETER HOEPPE, PH.D. GERALD MEEHL, PH.D. EMILY BALOG MARTIN NØRREGAARD SIMONE BALOG

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JAMES WOOLSEY MARTIN SHARP, PH.D. RICHARD WARD

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