Hi Mohamed,

I just had a look on their website, and there's four contact emails, one of which is for international sales.

Given that the film is intended as an awareness-raising polemic, I'd expect them to be well disposed towards helping you.

Its a very powerful film. Its also very focussed on silencing the remaining climate change dissenters, especially in US media/ politics.

So - as well as some very beautiful footage - we get a convincing picture that the ice is indeed receding, and fast. But nothing really on what that means. Although we are given to understand that this is an issue of huge significance for all of us, as far as I recall it doesn't really go into what an ice-free Arctic might actually mean for the rest of the world, and how quickly it would mean it. I think that when some of the projections discussed here are set alongside the present realities that the film bears witness to, the footage becomes altogether more...[name your own response].

I greatly enjoyed your recent, poetic post. Especially the passage at the end about the nail hit straight, driven home.

All the best,

Mat

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dear all,

Can anyone help me to find out how i can get the film "Chasing Ice" for a screening in Malaysia? i.e. i like the right to do the screening as well. We are also trying to launch a pilot project soon called "Sustainability Clubs" for Primary schools.

yours
yunus

Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:29:28 +0000
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Subject: Forever Groundhog Day For Climate? A Tale Of Ice, Smokescreens And Rebellion
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Hello,

The latest alert below from Media Lens might be of interest.

Apologies if you’ve already received this via another mailing list!

Best wishes

David

Forever Groundhog Day For Climate? A Tale Of Ice, Smokescreens And Rebellion

By David Cromwell
A spectacular event captured on film in a new documentary, 'Chasing Ice', depicts the stark impact of global warming on the Arctic. The stunning sequence shows the largest glacier calving event ever filmed. An on-screen graphic emphasises the huge scale of the ice collapse:
'It's as if the entire lower tip of Manhattan broke off, except that the thickness, the height of it, is equivalent to buildings that are two-and-a-half or three times higher than they are.'
Photographer James Balog, who has been documenting changes in the Arctic and elsewhere under the auspices of the Extreme Ice Survey, explains how rapidly the glacier, Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland, has shrunk in recent years:
'It took a hundred years for it to retreat eight miles from 1900 to 2000. From 2000 to 2010 it retreated nine miles. So in ten years it retreated more than it had in the previous one hundred.'
And it's not just in Greenland. At Mendenhall glacier in Alaska, the ice has retreated eleven miles since 1984, as well as getting considerably thinner. Standing at a location overlooking this glacier, Balog points and says:
'You can see what's called the trim line – it's the high water mark of the glacier in 1984. That vertical change [reduction in the glacier height] is the height of the Empire State Building [over 400 m].'
The excellent Skeptical Science website, which rebuts the misleading arguments and insidious disinformation promulgated by climate contrarians, observes:
'The big picture is that most glaciers are shrinking. A small fraction are growing, but for every measured growing glacier there are 9 shrinking ones. 2011 saw the third fastest retreat, and we know that overall glaciers are losing about 150 billion tons of ice a year because of satellite measurements. Stories about growing glaciers are popular on some blogs and newspapers, but they rely on hiding or ignoring 90% of the evidence.'
And:
'Newly released measurements of 100 world glaciers show that 2011 saw the third fastest thinning on record, an average of 80 centimetres (31 inches). This report adds detail to the 500 billion tons a year of ice loss that was seen by the GRACE satellites from 2003-2010, of which 150 billion tons was mountain glacier retreat.'
Just a few days ago, the National Snow and Ice Data Center, based at the University of Colorado in Boulder, announced that 'Greenland's surface melting in 2012 was intense, far in excess of any earlier year in the satellite record since 1979.'
Our future is melting before our very eyes.
/Full article here:
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/alerts-2013/721-forever-groundhog-day-for-climate-a-tale-of-ice-smokescreens-and-rebellion.html