"CHASING ICE" captures largest glacier calving ever filmed - OFFICIAL VIDEO
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- This rare footage has gone on record as the largest glacier calving event ever captured on film, by the 2016 Guiness Book of World Records.
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.
Footage produced by James Balog (jamesbalog.com) and the Extreme Ice Survey (extremeicesurve...)
Chasing Ice won the award for Excellence in Cinematography at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and a 2013 Emmy Award for Outstanding Nature Programming. It has won over 40 awards at festivals worldwide, and was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, "Before My Time" by J. Ralph featuring Scarlett Johansson and Joshua Bell.
Listen to the song: • "Before My Time" by J....
And watch the trailer: • Chasing Ice OFFICIAL T...
I appreciate the photographers shutting up quickly so they didn’t ruin the audio after they realized what was happening
I'm sure they were just as stricken into awe and silence as the rest of us.
Truly an astounding event.
They ran for their lives, bro. That's what I would've done. We'll leave the cameras, they're insured!
Such an astounding event, what else can you do but watch in awe, adjust the camera and observe :) Great guys!
@@shilohmarley9434 you dont have a girlfriend
@@shilohmarley9434incel moment
The sound generated by these large calving events is absolutely astonishing.
Many attribute "the bloop" to the sounds of calving glaciers
Ke noga
@@norml.hugh-mann would be recorded evidence by now
It’s a pretty surreal sound…I live in the country and it reminds me of when a Tornado touched down 1,000 yards into our woods….it sounded like an otherworldly heard of animals running through the woods and at some point a speeding train….I thought I was gonna die that day but the tornado lifted back off the ground and passed right over the house 😮💨
Pretty sure the sound would have been sound design done in post-production, and what we are hearing is not the actual sound of it.
Watched this a couple of times and still can´t comprrehend the scale of it.
The blocks of ice are taller and larger than skyscrapers in New York city, imagine standing near one, and the whole area that collapsed is bigger then New York city, maybe that helps.
Our brains just aren't calibrated for these scales.
When I went to Black Lake, Canada a few years back to see the old open air mine, I couldn't even figure out how large it was until I saw the tiny GIANT TRUCKS moving on the bottom, and then my brain calculated that the trucks were, in fact, very small. It's just not something we evolved to understand. It takes a bit of abstract thinking.
It was like the 2012 earthquake re-enacted with a huge glacier
@@Argumemnon Same experience in BC. I was at a winery near Kelowna, and I was taking a small video of a bird that had been soaring for a good minute, but it looked a little odd. It wasn't until I finally took a really good look and realized it was a plane, but so far away it was barely visible as a dot along the mountainside leading around the mountains. I live in a very flat area; I still feel like the mountains were some fake landscape, in terms of how vast the mountains are there.
kinda crappy job with the filming.
You can tell they're professionals because you don't just hear "WOOOOOAH< OH SHIT LOOK AT THAT" and screaming the whole time
Or the inevitable OMG's.
I wouldn't be surprised if the audio was dubbed. They are on the side of a mountain with no wind noise recording something miles away. I'm just speculating though.
Actually there was a bit of that
@@andrewmurphy5310 What do you mean lol there is wind and other sounds in the audio
I reckon they dubbbed out all the "OHHHHHH SHIIIITTTS"
The darn squirrel did it again.
Ice fuckin Age
:D:D:D:D:D
You gotta love scratt...lol. ☘️🇺🇸😂🐿️🐿️🐿️
question is, can he find the acorn in this mess?
Damn right!!
I really appreciate that there are people put there filming these kinds of things. I would have gone my whole life without seeing something so spectacular and magnificent. Thank you
Totally agree. This is one of the most insane things I’ve seen. The internet fucking rules. The sound also struck me; it sounds like thunder.
i mean that's the whole point of filming things
@@NTMA11 OH really? Because if you hadn't have said anything I would have never known that. Dumbass.
@@evanwilcox82 the fact that they were dedicating as much time and resources as they were does imply that they know people will appreciate seeing it, so you didn't contribute anything new yourself, dumbass.
@@evanwilcox82 and when did this become a competition of original ideas, i'm just here to smear poop on walls
I don't think my brain is letting me see it in its true scale. Even after the overlay of Manhattan was shown, it still looks smaller than that...
Quillbro Durdus I said I can't comprehend the scale. How am I being a smart ass?
Davy Ker this is because it's a foreign environment you're not used to seeing and it's lacking anything your eyes can recognize to help scale it in your mind.
Andrew Case
Indeed!
I can't tell if you are denying climate change. I also can't tell if you're just trolling if you are denying it.
If either of those assumptions I can make are correct though, I'd like to say I will piss in your mouth good sir, as the ignorant only deserve to be pissed on by everyone who isn't stupid.
Enjoy the urine.
+Isaac Sorrels
The ice-shield of Greenland is a relict of the last ice-age. There is no
climatic reason for the existence of that massive ice-shield.
I love videos like this that show how it happened with no weird music or narrators who arent needed.
When the Glacier mountain turned upside down, the ice was Dark Blue almost black, it felt like and an alien ship coming up!!!!
@R W *But that's just a theory, a* conspiracy *theory*
@@polesquemoth sike look up how many conspiracys end up real XD
Imagine how old that ice is.
I agree
i thought the whole time till now it's a massive dead whale
It's _really_ hard to appreciate the scale of this while watching on a smartphone.
It's _really_ BIG.
It's really hard to appreciate the scale of this, without any reference points.
These 2 didn't even pan out the camera, only had it zoomed in.
put it closer to yo face
@@martinhorvath4117 agreed, they should've sent some guy next to it all to wave at us
@@sfb4144 Maybe they should've sent you.
One of the most phenomenal events I have ever viewed. The amount of energy released is certainly incredible.
Facts… Now pay more taxes and eat bugs because cows fart too much!!
-Claus Schuab
@@samb202 You can just eat shit instead
and ever heard
Even with Manhattan overlaid on top of the ice, I still can't put it into perspective.
4:13 I just watched TWO masses of ice; each the size of Central Park and at least as thick as the One World Trade Center is tall, break off in two enormous chunks, _flip upside-down,_ then drift out to sea along with several others of comparable size. *I'm feeling pretty small and insignificant right now...*
Yet it was you and your species that made the planet react this way.
This event is an awakening, not a catastrophe.
+wakaka2waka You have to look at the falling chunks and how fast they are falling to really get perspective. Go watch some avalanche videos and you can see.
+Arda Barut you caused it too
+Arda Barut your a burden on this earth stupid ass😂😂 acting like your not a human too
As a farmer I can really appreciate a good calving. And that is a beautiful calf. Congratulations.
Best comment right here. XD
underrated comment lmaoo
There's always 1 starting Beef with folk🙊🙊
I’m not quite ready for that calf just yet.
Put it on ice for me please.
Thanks to your comment, I will be eating delicious veal tonight. Thanks again!
If they put up the full 75 minutes of film i bet i'd watch the entire thing.
Alan Noble i know its 2 years old but the break happened during 75hours nit minutes
@@cookiesw9270 It definitely did not take 75 hours. Didn't you notice it never got dark?
@@cookiesw9270 at the 3:30 mark it says calving duration: 75 minutes
Same here. Nature at works is my favorite thing to watch.
NO, he said 75 YEARS!
That might be the most incredible footage ever recorded. Absoloutly insane! Well done guys!
For real! Truly one for the history... videos?
What makes it the most incredible footage ever is that it's footage of a titanic leviathan, some kind of living creature breaking through the ice. Once you see it you can't unsee it.
Mt. St. Helens would like a word.
It was hard to comprehend what was happening until I saw the time lapse at 3:59.
Then, the fact that huge slabs of ice (which had too much of their volume held underwater because of their attachment to the glacier) were finally breaking off and flipping over (some forwards, some backwards) due to the massive bouyant force was clear. And for them to to be out there for more than 2 weeks waiting must have been tough - but totally worth it!
Yeah. When glaciers separate, they are now free-floating on water and they tend to roll over, therefore, exposing the black underside of the glacier with the help of buoyancy. Then, they sink into the water and get carried out to sea.
I thought they calved because of their physical attachment to the main body of the glacier preventing them from displacing their own weight of water. Eventually the ice mass shears off. The point being that the glacier starts off on land and so must be above sea level.@@rithvikmuthyalapati9754
One word, if you were to watch the whole unedited version, you would see the truth about this video
@@acaticlopezflat earth stuff?
@@andersonstevie904he IS a flat earther 😂😂
this is how i imagine an ancient titan waking up
Let loose the Kraken!!
That might be exactly what this footage is, I think that was the Leviathan waking up.
@@andycruzatx3387 yessir thats exactly 💯 what that was
Me too
T' was the say on wich our lord and saviour kthulu set foot upon this world once more
75 Minutes? So, why the Video have 4:41 Minutes? Where go the other 70 minutes?
Probably gotta pay for that one. You know how these greedy hippies be...
@@RespondifImright My god. I had forgotten about this video. Thank you for answering me.
That has to be the most spectacular thing i have ever seen, and heard. The noises were truly phenomenal, like how i imagine a planet forming sounds like.
Planet Forming ? I imagine it sounding the same,,, "BUT (Backwards)" lol
I had to watch this twice. If you have a nice sound system, turn it up. It's incredible!
Daniel Amspaugh People sometimes complain about bass from electronic music not being from a real bass instrument, I complain about real bass instruments not being massive, mega-ton scale ice-cities calving.
GarioTheRock Well said.
Daniel Amspaugh word! my subwoofer almost made me hard with that deep rumbling :O
ScorpionCore LOL. It was ear candy for sure. Cheers.
*****
LOL. It scared my cats. I may have to watch it again here in a minute.
That was absolutely incredible. I was in complete awe. I am also grateful that no music was played over the film. Just hearing things rupture and break apart was a new experience for me.
Have watched this about 10 times now, and still amazed each time
Me2😊
My top choice for most incredible nature footage of all time, period.
the audio is terrifyingly menacing at times
Of course one has to realize that the sound coming from those ice bergs reach the microphones several seconds after it has been produced. In other words, the audio has been manipulated to match the video. That particular sound may not come from the event being shown.
1961casey good point
quote: "Of course one has to realize that the sound coming from those ice bergs reach the microphones several seconds after it has been produced. In other words, the audio has been manipulated to match the video. That particular sound may not come from the event being shown."
Sound doesn't arrive immediately after it was made:
Speed of sound is 343 m / s at **20 °C**, but the temperature is less than 20 °C so the speed of sound is less than 343 m/s.
1961casey...You know this was a long event and there was probably constant noise and rumbling going on. Maybe there was no audio manipulation going on.
funny - watching this just now, 6 years after this video was first posted to TH-cam, I was thinking exactly the same thing.
To have witnessed this in real time had to be the most awesome thing to experience.
Definitely! Imagine actually being there - wonderful and terrifying all at once.
It feels like there should be two guys fighting with light sabers atop that shifting ice.
i'd pay to see that
Epic.
*I HAVE THE HIGH GROUND*
ON ICE
Greedo That fight would have ended very differently for Anakin. "GRRRRRR, I HATE YOU! And also my balls are freezing."
Peter Collin I have seen dumber movies that's actually a good idea
Imagine being a prehistoric human and witnessing this.
id probably think there were gods and shit too if i saw something like this
"Cavemen see big cold thing break. Cavemen say it bigger than tree."
Like the Ice Age?
you are prehistoric you fuckin Neanderthal
I would imagine they've seen stuff WAAY crazier than this. Theres theories that a giant fresh water sea on top of the glaciers 12000 years ago suddenly broke out and rushed over land into the ocean, making sea levels rise(think entire worlds ocean) 10 or more feet in a couple of days. Thats a hell of an event to witness.
This was a lot cooler to watch than I thought it was going to be.
+Adam Carlone - Cool! Ya you are watching human race coming to and end.. that will be cool!
@@emploioneYou're a moron.
Something is coming up....That's a freaking giant creature!
someone is coming from robert mudfossil lol
@@groundjitsu That is a giant dragon!
@@JaejoongPrincessi dont know about that
GODZILLA !!!
It a titan
The 2 of you have probably witnessed one of the most extraordinary events of Mother Nature and you recorded it 🫡 👏
The time lapse after overlaying Manhattan over the calved area is simply stunning
thank you for having good microphones for this
+purplehayabusa sounds hnggggggg
1:54 looks like a giant whale breaching and diving. You can even see what looks like an eye. Easy to understand why ancient people would have seen this as a god-like entity.
same thought
Yea except the whale was a half mile long.
ancients would NOT have known what a whale looks like..
cyberhawk80 I don't know what your considering ancient, but people have hunting whales for thousands and thousands of years.
@@bigredc222 really without harpoons and ships.. let alone tackle the beast in..
Is it just me or does it look like a enormous whale or spaceship from 1:49? I've seen up close some large calving events on the Antarctic Peninsula, but this is insane.. literally. WOW!
haha. I thought the same thing lol.
Me Cuatro!!
Me пятый!
realf1rme me seis
It's actually ice... literally.
The sound is so.. It's so humbling..
This is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. I'm also very grateful that there isn't any talking, and especially, NO MUSIC playing during this extraordinary event...
AMEN!
Hey Felix my thoughts exactly was that not incredible or what
@Under the Surface - It was inconsiderate of me to forget that people like you exist who need everything spelled out for them. I'm glad they didn't overlap the whole clip with music. Sarcastic douchebag
@@o0o-jd-o0o95 - Absolutely!
When I saw that ,my first thought was ,wow I'm glad I'm not anywhere near that lol the Raw power of the oceans is almost unthinkable
My subwoofer rates this 10/10. My beer that fell over 0/10
Bud Light isn't beer.
@@someguy5035 What the fuck is a Bud light?
@@neth77 I am sure you know since it is one of the best selling beers in the world. But to answer your question directly, it is basically just yellow water.
@@someguy5035 I've never seen that beer in Australia.
I prefer a Japanese import or a craft local IPA beer. 🍺
@@neth77 Bud Light is the piss water beer we drink in the United States. Goes in one end and immediately out the other.
This is beyond incredible. My brain can’t comprehend it’s size, yet it intrigues and scares me at the same time.
Absolutely amazing!! I really appreciate that you kept quiet while u filmed during such an incredible event. You let nature do the talking.
"Yeah, Jim, nothings happening....... Uh, lemme call you back."
Jim: "Why did I leave? Shit."
Happens 1000 times a day all summer long, has done this every summer for 100,000 years, and will continue to do so for 100,000 more. The ice retreats all summer and advances all winter. I'm surprised you don't know this.
It's the fact that it's retreated more in the past 10 years than the past 100. Did you even watch the video?
John Smith Yes! Although clearly aimed at the shrinking elementary school market, it was chock full of realistic sounding factoids. This should be a big hit with the tweens. There are some very entertaining global warming cartoons out there as well!
Paul Bennett Do you also disagree with the thousands of climatologists that say humans have had a substantial impact on climate? I hardly think you're qualified enough to make that statement.
Just because I'm sure you'll ask for the numbers... lol, who are we kidding. People like you don't care how much evidence is presented, as you're a pig-headed idiot who never learned to think or rationalize for himself. Well, I'll humor you anyways. Let's start with this:
"In the scientific literature, there is a strong consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused mainly by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases. No scientific body of national or international standing disagrees with this view."
Yep, assuming you can indeed read, you'll recognize that not a single scientific body has disagreed with the fact that humans are causing such an abrupt change in our climate. In the entire world. You must be awfully special to deny a mountain of data like that! Maybe you know something we don't. How's about we look at some individual scientists views then, I mean, there has to be a load of them that express the same sentiment, right? Otherwise, how could your argument possibly stand ground? Well, let's see!
"A 2013 paper in Environmental Research Letters reviewed 11,944 abstracts of scientific papers matching "global warming" or "global climate change". They found 4,014 which discussed the cause of recent global warming, and of these 97.1% endorsed the consensus position.
James L. Powell, a former member of the National Science Board and current executive director of the National Physical Science Consortium, analyzed published research on global warming and climate change between 1991 and 2012 and found that of the 13,950 articles in peer-reviewed journals, only 24 rejected anthropogenic global warming. A follow-up analysis looking at 2,258 peer-reviewed climate articles with 9,136 authors published between November 2012 and December 2013 revealed that only one of the 9,136 authors rejected anthropogenic global warming."
Woah. Looks like there were only 25 of 16,208 peer-reviewed articles posted since 1991 that have shared the same opinion you have. And let me stress that what you have is nothing more than that, as the fact is that humans are playing a massive role in climate change. Even someone with a 5th grade knowledge of chemistry understands the concept of greenhouse gases, and the fact that our unhindered burning of fossil fuels have dumped extreme amounts of pollutants into the air. But hey, there's still the possibility that the other 99.846% of scientists that do this for a living are wrong... right?
I'm not sure why my opinion matters so much to you. You seem very intent on getting my buy-in on the crazy money making schemes of people you probably don't even know. Do you actually believe that human life is threatened by an infinitesimal increase in CO2?
"The sky is falling," cries Chicken Little, and instantly you urgently accost strangers, trying to pack into their little brains all this deep knowledge you have suddenly acquired from hours of factoid infested docudramas? If this is true, then your fervor will pass with the next Internet meme that comes along: KONY2012, Not One More, Bring Back Our Girls, Ebola Is Real, ISIS is Crossing Our Borders... ad infinitum.
But your fake name and fake profile indicate something else entirely. You have been posting on TH-cam since way back in Nov 2, 2014 (over two weeks now!) and you expect me to treat you like a real person? I'm sure you are aware of the tens of thousands of fake Google profiles managed by activist organizations that make a profit by "directing the attention of the herd" towards this or that country, or this or that technology. Carbon credits and environmental stock exchanges spring to mind, and certainly you display all the signs of what is called a "shill" for such schemes.
Paul Bennett Not a shill, simply a college student that actually has an education. Judging by your liked videos, you are simply a conspiracy theorist, so my time is wasted as you obviously have no idea what you're talking about. My profile may be new, but that still doesn't change the fact that you simply dismiss all data provided to you; a sign that your little mind could never be persuaded in the first place. How about you stick with your shitty IT job, and leave the actual science to scientists?
"Do you actually believe that human life is threatened by an infinitesimal increase in CO2?" Yes, you fucking twit. Again, try taking any chemistry course beyond your elementary school education before spouting your unsubstantiated bullshit.
It’s beautiful, scary and sad all at the same time.
But why sad?
@@hamag1973 Climate change is driving the retreat of glaciers, leading to calving events like this one. These glaciers take thousands of years to advance and are retreating those same distances over a few years.
Selective reporting. According to sat photos, the 2017 ice cap was the largest since measurements begun, yet they make sure to never mention it. Wouldn't want to confuse all the people they have spent so long brainwashing, I guess.
@@politicallycorrectredskin796
Exactly I fucking hate these climate change scientists.
Accelerated glacial melt is occurring the world over. It's sad because Manhattan will be underwater with rising sea levels in the lifetime of someone born today. And there is little we can do to stop it other than controlling the waste gases that add to a greenhouse effect, which contributes to the warming of the seas. Average ocean temperatures going up even a tiny bit causes ice to melt. Whether climate change is manmade or natural doesn't matter at this point. It will be sad to witness coastal communities having to evacuate because rising sea levels cause the area to be suddenly unlivable. These mass refugees will go inland, so folks in the heartland of each country will witness great influxes of people in the near future.
What was the creature that came out!!!!
Leviathan
I've seen this video at least 50 times and every time I'm awestruck...
This video was worth watching.
But in real life watching it happening in front of my own eyes would have been so rewarding that I couldn't even imagine.
Most humbled to see the nature at work.
See if i was there, I would be the one like, LETS GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE, THIS IS WAY TO FUCKING CRAZY AND AN ASTEROID COULD HIT US AT ANY MOMENT....if that much ice can start moving,,,ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN.
@@jentuohy7955 ROFL 🤣
Oh fuck
Great statement, dude!
This was beautiful and scary at the same time. The ending was just scary.
there's nothing scary here, no scarier than an ice cube rolling over in your evening cocktail.
@@Sugarsail1 Perhaps the fear is of gobal warming that if the ice keeps retreating it will make its way to his house.
@@AngryHateMusic
It’s normal stuff in nature, not global warming. No, the seas aren’t going to rise and no, the polar bears aren’t going to die. When’s the last time you’ve been to a wealthy coastal area? Do you think banks would invest billions to line beaches with high rise condos and hotels if the oceans were going to rise as much as these nuts says it’s going to rise? I’ve been hearing this crap my entire life. The oceans are not rising. More polluted, absolutely but not rising.
@@OarsmanPower @OarsmanPower It's fear... or in your case, assumptive stupidity. ﹰI never said any of that shit you just complained about.
Photographer: Nothing's happening Jim...
Glacier: Is that a personal attack or something?
that is one of the most awesome things ive ever seen
Yes :-) all probs away
Also one of the saddest things. We're fucking the planet over and over.
jag10 Why are some of you with such thick skulls?! Its not spring itself but that rapid rise in temperatures. I mean seriously, how difficult is it to understand that?
***** The fact that more icebergs calved during the past 20 years than the past 10,000 years.
jag10 Your right, this is a natural occurrence. The exception is the glaciers are supposed to melt over tens to hundreds of thousands of years, not 30-50. Pretty much all glaciers are retreating around the globe, bar a few that are remaining the same, not increasing in size.
That process is pretty much the definition of epic.
75 minutes? Where's the DVD? Would buy 10/10 !
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The most extraordinary thing I’ve ever seen, this footage is insanely amazing! Imagine what the aerial view would have been. This is mind boggling.
I love how it’s just massive ice breaking, flipping and shooting back up and everybody’s like
😰 oh no sea monster 😰
This is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. These things are massive.
I would have given everything I own to be there to witness this. Those guys are so lucky.
They just happened to be there at the top of a mountain and capture 75 minutes of whats equivalent to a whole city collapse. Thats pretty serious!! 😳
They were there a long time. They waited for weeks to catch a calving event before this happened.
They didn't "just happen" to be there, it was a lot of work to capture the footage.
Drill a few holes, lay a few charges.....Boom...in the Guiness book of records
@@-Gumbo
That sounds unethical.
Rocks dont do that. Just ice.
It amazing how hiding in plain sight we just possibly witnessed the leviathan/creature come up from the water and no one noticed.
Literally…everything started lifting nothing just naturally fell down and I seen the tiktok of also😂
Exactly, I felt it in my soul. They cut the footage at 1:46 as whatever it is arises then at 1:55 they clearly show it in plain sight. There is definitely footage that hasn’t bn released which is understandable no telling what ppl would do in search of this mythical creature.
@@adrianflores581 looks like a head of a giant blue whale
@@adrianflores581 End times, we'll be seeing and hearing about this creature God made. I'd not wish to be anywhere near the ocean when that occurs.
@@museluvrIt’s obviously just ice. Among the literal megatons of ice. Try getting your head out your book and you might actually start using your brain.
This has to be one of the most epic films ever recorded lol.. the scale is unimaginable.
Been happening since the beginning of time, yet so few have seen it happen. Incredible.
Well, it will happen faster and faster with global warming
One of the most breathtaking yet saddening things I've seen! Makes me think even harder about how I can do my part to preserve our world.
Unfortunately, at this point, doing your own part it's just not enough. Those who care need to do also the part of those who don't. Sad indeed.
Which is rather challenging to take on multiple people's environmental footprints. I would imagine a constant and stronger push to inform others of the situation is needed.
Glaciers have been receding and expanding all throughout Earth's history. It's unavoidable despite what humans do. If you want to believe humans are speeding up this process, than it's speeding up the inevitable. Better to survive through glacier withdraw than survive through an ice age.
Oh of course, I didn't think it's unnatural for glaciers to melt, that's no more unnatural than the fact that they were formed.
With your opinion on: "If you want to believe humans are speeding up this process, than it's speeding up the inevitable." I agree, it sure is. But I'm not sure that statement is the greatest way to think of things. For example, if I'm going to die in 40 years, why not speed up the inevitable and take on potentially dangerous living habits so I'll just die in 5 years? I think the point of medicine, along with the concept of reducing global warming and reducing our environmental footprint, is to prolong our good days and keep us as happy and healthy as long as possible.
However I'm confused with "Better to survive through glacier withdraw..." I'm not an environmental expert, but from my understanding, if all the glaciers were to melt, a lot of our current land would be submerged underwater, making it rather hard for a majority of the population to live.
Also, I'm a little stumped at: "...than survive through an ice age." Is there an upcoming ice age which global warming is preventing, thus it's better to have the glaciers melt?
Thanks for commenting! I'm loving the discussion! =)
Just help out your fellow human beings, teach your children the value of education and bettering the world, and be living proof through your actions that good people exist. Global warming happens no matter what you do, and humans could never destroy the Earth, just each other. Eventually, the Earth will start over without us. Just focus on giving back as much as you can and being a guiding light for others.
These people witnessed an event so massive, amazing, and unique. That they were able to capture it on video is a fantastic coincidence.
Well... it wasn't, though. They predicted this would happen. That's why they were there
Just the thought of 1km thick ice suddenly shooting up, pushing out the top to over 200 meters. This is insane.
This is mother nature
Untouched in time for millions of years all leading up to this moment
My thoughts exactly. Imagine how many years ago that ice was formed.
Its beautiful watching Mother Nature having breakfast.
Some of the most amazing film footage I've seen. The scale is mind blowing.
I can totally relate because it's hard to keep stuff organized in my cooler when the ice moves around.
Yeah, that's a good analogy. I think the calving event ^shown here, was somewhere in the size range of an Igloo 12 pack cooler full of ice, and the lower 1/4 of Manhattan. Somewhere in that tight range of scale....
@@patrickmcleod111 LoL! exactly what I meant.
That is the most epic video I have seen in a long time.
So much for the opening scene of The Day After Tomorrow.
4:33 Crazy how he placed emphasis on its retreat in those 10 years, and today it reversed course right back in just the same time frame. Had we not recorded 2000-2010 it would appear to have never moved.
And yet they will still claim it took billions of years to carve out the valley it is in! SMH.
It would be amazing to see a CG re-creation of what's happening with the ice but with the actual buildings in Manhattan. Show us the giant buildings breaking off and flipping over in HD!!!
This is absolutely mind blowing.
I hope you got awards for that filming, unbelievable awsome footage, I have never seen nothing like it, did not know that happens, a once in a lifetime filming, how did you know when and where the right place the time. You are amazing for capturing that on video, thank you for sharing. Wow
Watch the whole documentary and find out.
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Mother Earth reminding us who is in charge.
Mother Earth? Yeah, okay.
@@kyokogodai-ir6hy sure wasnt God
God put the world into our hands. WE are in charge of it and have been its care takers this whole time. For some reason, little children who want instant gratification from their technologically inclined expectations have lost all sense of that job. Wake up and get to work.
Training Grounds...... Well, thank god for making me an Atheist. I'll keep it real with Mother Earth.... you carry on putting effort into your writing.
who told you that?
Absolutely majestic piece of footage. Listen to the audio with some good headphones to really appreciate the low frequency sounds from the ice. Goosebumps man.
I found this videoe both beautiful and also strangely reassuring that such naturally occurring events are beyond the control of mankind which (arguably) sometimes causes more problems while trying to solve them
Go back and listen to how long it took for that glacier to go 8 miles, then how long it took to go 9 miles, then say that what's happening is natural. The point is well made, but the impact we've caused is indisputable at this point.
We need to be pushing the human impact version on to our Chinese and Indian friends. The naturally occurring warming and cooling of the Earth is a beautiful thing.
Mankind caused this, though.
@@ghost321000 correlation doesn't equal causation, humanity is responsible for ~1% of the total co2 emission generated annually on the planet, the remaining 99% is natural
the only damage we're doing which is actually bad is the pollution of rivers and seas with plastic and extreme deforestation, other than that there's absolutely no proof that we're causing any climatic events as everything that is happening right has happened in the past and worse, we're simply too small and arrogant to believe that cow farts and some coal plants can possibly ever ruin the planet, co2 is at an all time low now, the planet needs more of, much more, 4-5 times as much would be the ideal.
Terrifying. Fascinating, yet terrifying.
It's sad. Global warming is a real thing.
Rob this has nothing to do with global warming
Glacier calving always occurs naturally, however the frequency of the occurrences throughout polar regions is absolutely caused and accelerated by global warming.
Rob maybe thats true, I dont know alot about this :)
@@rob442 Absolute nonsense, this glazier is flowing because it is growing at its source upstream.
If this doesnt wake up Chtulhu, I dont know what will.
I for one welcome our new dark overlords.
That sound. It must’ve been awesome to be there
Pretty sure they added in the sound after. Definitely would be awesome though
I don’t know if what I just saw, was a good thing, or bad. But, it was amazing!
Impossible to wrap your brain around something this spectacular and this horrifying - all in the same breath - I was born 100 years too late - I would have much preferred living pre-industrial revolution - of course, that is knowing what I know now. I am so unsettled by shrinking glaciers - I keep lights off, heat down, AC up, drive less than 20 miles per month, recycle, use as few plastics and prepackaging as humanly possible and still feel guilty for breathing.
You're dumb. Cute for trying, tho. The world heats and cools as it pleases. Garbage and exhaust doesn't cause this. Ice shifts constantly, everywhere, since ice has been around. This isn't us. This is actually natural.
@@lenorexoxo9447 You are the classic example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
You are to be applauded for your efforts. I fear that if you and I continue, and a billion people join us, it would mitigate very little. Most of the effects are human made: deforestation; aquifer contamination; methane from fracking/oil production, agriculture, melting permafrost, waste decomposition and the like. Then there's the natural biggies such as volcanism and deep-lake methane releases, all of which the planet has handled in the past, but coupled with the rest, we're in a bad way. I, too, am unsettled. While I don't wish to have been born a century ago, I'm also glad I'm old and won't have to continue to see much more massive habitation destruction and extinctions continue. Hurts my heart.
Maybe the earth can heal again after humans have wiped themselves off of it.
The sound of that calving is god tier levels of epic, only something we would hear in a movie.
11 years ago, but the quality looks like it was filmed yesterday. Absolutely stunning, very professional. Thank you!
Never get tired of watching this.
That would scare the crap out of me even being up on the mountain if feel like it was going to wash you away.
What a trip it was right when you called.
"I'm watching this glacier...Jim, nothing's happening."
It's interesting to put the statement into context. At that point, the two were sitting on that mountain for day 17 of what was supposed to be a 2-week expedition, waiting for a calving event. The only reason that it got extended beyond the planned two weeks was that nothing had happened at all, besides them being tormented by the weather, and they didn't want to return without usable footage.
"I'm watching this glacier, Jim, nothing's happening."
Glacier: "Hold my ice water...."
Wow! That was pretty awesome. The sounds were super cool. It must have been amazing to see it first hand.
Jesus, I've never seen something so beautiful and tragic at the same time. That dark blue ice is likely older than all recorded human history, and hadn't see the sun in probably 60-120k years.
The documentary that this clip is from is a must-watch! It's both fascinating and eye-opening!
Eye opening in what sense? Global Warming? Or gee whiz, what I've just watched has been going on and been repeated 1000's of times over millions of years and it was amazing that someone was there to capture it this time?
Absolutely awesome . Words just can't describe such events as this . Many thanks for sharing .
Like watching whole mountain ranges simply break apart and roll over. The scale is incomprehensible without the diagrams. I would imagine that the guys who filmed it were just as terrified as they were awestruck. Just unbelievable...
I often imagine Manhattan breaking apart and sinking into the ocean.
That's what a lot of people wish it would happen to California.
@@Behutet93 How about just the west coast of California?
Its on the move , not from air temp or water temp but from pressure. Its always on the move. The are no static glaciers. Anywhere
Because of.....?
@@kuznetskiibassein3840 extreme snow inland. It will only pack so high
@@odin1s269u Thank you for the breath of fresh air!!!
@@kuznetskiibassein3840 Gravity is relentless
Move yes but the movement doesn't justify the reduction of the mass without other physical factors... heat from air / water.
1:50 thought it was a alien space ship, anyone else thought that?
!sushi! Or a whale of some kind
You may be right . There's something under all that ice if you ask me. It's gonna shake this world up. I keep the movie transformers in mind every time I think about Antarctica. They went there in parts 1 & the latest one. It's some technology that has to be awakened
Jizzletopia337 Or it's a bigass piece of ice.
Adam Bice Well depend how much of a gamer you are from 1-10 ;)
!sushi! i thought it were the Nazis hiding under the north pole. lol
I loved this documentary, watched it a few times and still amazes me.
I left my hummer running outside while i was inside watching this video.
🤣
Clever......and prudent.
Schmuck
How many oil fields worth of gasoline did it consume?
glacial calving isnt caused by global warming or car exhaust
2019 still one of the best footage ever.
I don't know, DEBBIE DOES DALLAS was pretty spectacular
The blocks of ice are taller and larger than skyscrapers in New York city, imagine standing near one, and the whole area that collapsed is bigger than New York city.
Well if it works with ice....
When visiting comrades in Juneau, Alaska, in mid 2015, we were walking away from the Menghal Glacier when the air roared and my body vibrated as the ice calved in distance. Apparently it rare even for locals to be present during such events. I consider it a bittersweet yet indelible memory.
Note all the other ice either broke up or shot out of the water - this looked like it had been dislodged and submerged for a short while and sank again, a frozen leviathon. a Titan a Giant catch
Pockets that’s what it is sir
If that's big can you imagine what it must have been like 10000 years ago when they were 10 times as large. What a sight that must have been
Must've been pretty ugly
Where I am in Scotland there was a mile high sheet of ice a few thousand years ago… imagine mile high ice calving..,,
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it must have been breathtaking , literally , in person .
How terribly beautiful the sight and sound of this and how terribly sad.