James Balog and Bill Weir on the fate of Antarctica amid an increasingly warming planet

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🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Environmental photographer, filmmaker and explorer James Balog and CNN anchor and chief climate correspondent Bill Weir join The Post's Jonathan Capehart from Washington Post Live's "This is Climate Summit" in New York City to discuss their work documenting the impact of a warming world on Antarctica’s glaciers and the positive stories they’ve seen on the ground that give them hope. Conversation recorded on Monday, September 23, 2024.

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0:00.0	I'm Jonathan Kapart and welcome to Kapart.
0:02.8	On September 23rd, the Washington Post hosted a climate summit in New York City.
0:08.0	Last week, I brought you my conversation with former special envoy for Climate, John Kerry.
0:14.0	This week I want you to listen in on my talk with two men, one a photographer, the other a reporter,
0:19.7	who have used their powerful storytelling to chronicle how a changing climate is impacting the world.
0:26.0	The photographer is James Baylov.
0:29.0	When I as a photographer was out there looking at ice, really as an aesthetic subjective emotional response to the world that I saw changing around me, it collected this visual evidence that people could understand. It wasn't
0:45.8	about charts and graphs and statistics. It was real and it was immediate and it was tangible
0:50.8	for people who were not educated in hardcore quantitative science.
0:56.0	And the reporter is the chief climate correspondent for CNN, Bill Weir.
1:01.0	Since I was born, Earth has lost ice the size of the United States 15 feet thick.
1:07.4	You don't want to miss Bill Weir explained why whale poo.
1:11.4	You heard that right. Gives him hope. So James you've captured some of the most powerful
1:16.6	images depicting the rapid change and vanishing ice which we saw in in the opening montage. what do those images tell us about global climate change
1:27.1	specifically its impact on the continent of Antarctica?
1:30.3	Yeah, well we are a species that looks for patterns and likes to tell itself stories about the patterns.
1:39.0	And the patterns are what science does. Science is a discipline of finding the patterns out there in the world.
1:47.2	And art is a medium through which we tell ourselves stories about what those patterns are all about.
1:55.0	And so, when I as a photographer was out there looking at ice really as an aesthetic subjective emotional response to the world that I saw changing around me.
2:10.0	It collected this visual evidence that people could understand. It wasn't about
2:15.4	charts and graphs and statistics, it was real and it was immediate and it was
2:19.2	tangible for people who were not educated in the hardcore quantitative science.
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