Katie Huber's response to Chasing Ice

I would not necessarily call myself an environmentalist, but watching "Chasing Ice" really opened my eyes to all of the different issues going on within the environment. As the movie began, I really was not sure how far James Balog would get with all of his research and data. However, as the film progressed, I found that he discovered so much more with a few dozen cameras than one could ever imagine. It really impressed me how passionate Balog was about this project; I could not imagine the amount of money he had to invest in this project for travel expenses and equipment expenses. I also found it very interesting how he was so invested in this project that he could spend so much time away from his family. I thought it was very strong of Balog to keep calm when the majority of his cameras failed to work. I felt inspired at how diligently he worked to make sure that everything went as planned. One can definitely understand how all one wants within a project is for his or her hard work to pay off; when Balog's one camera had been working just the way he had hoped, the happiness in his reaction really made me feel like everything he was doing was worth it.
I really enjoyed how the movie showed a lot of Balog's pictures of videos of all of the ice. Most of those pictures were so incredibly beautiful, almost surreal. When I saw the first video of the ice peninsula the length of five football fields collapsing, my jaw dropped. I could not believe how insanely quick such a beautiful piece of the environment could just completely disappear. Those videos really opened up my eyes to global warming. Unfortunately, we did not get the chance to see how the movie ends, but I sure hope that Balog completes his project successfully and eventually finds a way to put a stop to this destruction of the environment.