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From the Ted Talk by James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss

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Here's a time lapse of one of the time-lapse untis being made. (Laughter) I personally obsessed about every nut, bolt and washer in these crazy things. I spent half my life at our local hardware store during the mtonhs when we built these units originally.

We're working in most of the major gtielcaad regions of the northern hsrimheepe. Our time-lapse units are in Alaska, the rocikes, gnnreaeld and Iceland, and we have repeat photography positions, that is places we just visit on an annual basis, in British cbomiula, the Alps and Bolivia.

It's a big undertaking. I stand here before you tgohnit as an ambassador for my whole team. There's a lot of people working on this right now. We've got 33 cameras out this moment. We just had 33 caerams shoot about half an hour ago all across the northern hemisphere, watching what's happened. And we've spent a lot of time in the fleid. It's been a fantastic amount of work. We've been out for two and a half years, and we've got about another two and a half years yet to go.

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Here's a time lapse of one of the time-lapse _____ being made. (Laughter) I personally obsessed about every nut, bolt and washer in these crazy things. I spent half my life at our local hardware store during the ______ when we built these units originally.

We're working in most of the major _________ regions of the northern __________. Our time-lapse units are in Alaska, the _______, _________ and Iceland, and we have repeat photography positions, that is places we just visit on an annual basis, in British ________, the Alps and Bolivia.

It's a big undertaking. I stand here before you _______ as an ambassador for my whole team. There's a lot of people working on this right now. We've got 33 cameras out this moment. We just had 33 _______ shoot about half an hour ago all across the northern hemisphere, watching what's happened. And we've spent a lot of time in the _____. It's been a fantastic amount of work. We've been out for two and a half years, and we've got about another two and a half years yet to go.

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  6. rockies
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  9. tonight
  10. columbia

Original Text


Here's a time lapse of one of the time-lapse units being made. (Laughter) I personally obsessed about every nut, bolt and washer in these crazy things. I spent half my life at our local hardware store during the months when we built these units originally.

We're working in most of the major glaciated regions of the northern hemisphere. Our time-lapse units are in Alaska, the Rockies, Greenland and Iceland, and we have repeat photography positions, that is places we just visit on an annual basis, in British Columbia, the Alps and Bolivia.

It's a big undertaking. I stand here before you tonight as an ambassador for my whole team. There's a lot of people working on this right now. We've got 33 cameras out this moment. We just had 33 cameras shoot about half an hour ago all across the northern hemisphere, watching what's happened. And we've spent a lot of time in the field. It's been a fantastic amount of work. We've been out for two and a half years, and we've got about another two and a half years yet to go.

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