In the spring of 2005, acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment for National Geographic: to capture images to help tell the story of the Earth’s changing climate. Even with a scientific upbringing, Balog had been a skeptic about climate change. But that first trip north opened his eyes to the biggest story in human history and sparked a challenge within him that would put his career and his very well-being at risk.

The film that resulted from Balog’s eureka moment is Chasing Ice. Sterling College will be screening the film on Monday, November 9, at 7 p.m. in Simpson Hall, Classroom 3. The event is free and open to the public, and is presented by the Center for Circumpolar Studies.

Chasing Ice has won multiple awards, including an Emmy for Outstanding Nature Programming, Best Documentary from the Environmental Media Award, and the 2013 Outstanding Achievement Award from the Renewable Natural Resources Foundation. The late film critic Roger Ebert said of the film, “At a time when warnings of global warming were being dismissed by broadcast blabbermouths as ‘junk science,’ the science here is based on actual observation of the results as they happen. Here is a film for skeptics who say ‘we don’t have enough information.’”

For more information about Chasing Ice, visit its website at https://chasingice.com/.

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