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Chasing Ice Questions Name: Thu Le

Date: 03/26/2021

The objective of watching this film and answering these questions is to: 1) Understand how climate change is affecting the cryosphere and consider how these changes might affect the planet. Directions: Answer all questions and submit the completed document by Friday, March 26 at 11:59 pm through the submission portal in Course Materials > Units 38. Please submit it as an attachment. Do not cut and paste your answers in to the submission portal. You will work together to answer these question with your group, but strive to write the answers in your own words. Do not answer the questions by using single words or short phrases. Instead, your answers should be in full sentences. Versions of these questions may appear on Exam III.

1. What are some of the natural disasters that have been attributed to global warming? Forest fires, hurricanes, floods, drought, heat wave and storms

2. What are some of the arguments that climate change is not occurring? The Globe has been cooling since 2002.

3. Why was Balog initially skeptical about climate change? The Global Warming idea was based on computer models. Maybe there was a lot of hyperbole that was turning this into an activist cause. Did not think that humans could change the basic physics and chemistry f this entire huge planet. 4. What is the cryosphere? The place where water is in its solid form, frozen into ice or snow. 5. What did Balog realize when he photographed the Solheim Glacier in Iceland six months apart?

The ice disappeared. 6. What part of the Greenland ice sheet is melting?

7. What is a moulin?

8. The film says that changes in the extent of ice sheets are nothing new. What is being referred to?

9. If changes in ice sheets are nothing new, what is new about the patterns described in this film?

10. Why does the film spend so much time talking about the Columbia Glacier?

11. According to the film, how much has the Columbia changed in the last 30 years? In the last year? How did the speed during the period measured in the film compare with the speed that was recorded in 1980?

12. Is the story of the Columbia glacier unique? Why or why not?

13. What is the major concern expressed about the Himalayan glaciers?

14. If all of the ice on Greenland and Antarctica were to melt, about how much change would we see in global sea level?

15. What do bubbles in ice cores tell us about climate history?

16. What does the film say about how sea level will change over the next 100 years, and what factors will affect it the most?

17. How many of the last 20 years have been the hottest on record?

18. In Balog’s opinion, why do glaciers matter in terms of talking about climate change?

19. If you had some knowledge on climate change before the film, has your perception shifted or been reinforced in any way?

The documentary makes the point that we have not been able to understand or track the melting of glaciers very well at all. The documentary makes the point that we have not been able to

understand or track the melting of glaciers very well at all. The documentary makes the point that we have not been able to understand or track the melting of glaciers very well at all 20. The documentary makes the point that we have not been able to understand or track the melting of glaciers very well. What is the reason?...