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The documentary film "Meltdown" documents the melting of icebergs in Greenland between previous years and the summer of 2012, when 97% of the surface ice melted due to climate change. The film follows a Greenlandic man who supplies tools to researchers and wants to investigate if humans are causing global warming. It shows the changes in icebergs over time and how the extreme melting alarmed scientists. While icebergs come in many shapes and sizes in Greenland, forming from compacted snow thousands of years old, the documentary examines how the entire cryosphere, including Greenland's ice sheet, is now experiencing total meltdown due to human activity driving climate change.

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The documentary film "Meltdown" documents the melting of icebergs in Greenland between previous years and the summer of 2012, when 97% of the surface ice melted due to climate change. The film follows a Greenlandic man who supplies tools to researchers and wants to investigate if humans are causing global warming. It shows the changes in icebergs over time and how the extreme melting alarmed scientists. While icebergs come in many shapes and sizes in Greenland, forming from compacted snow thousands of years old, the documentary examines how the entire cryosphere, including Greenland's ice sheet, is now experiencing total meltdown due to human activity driving climate change.

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Meltdown

The second short documentary film is brought about by a curious citizen of Greenland who is a supplier of
tools and equipment for researchers on remote areas. He would have wanted to know and prove if humans
were the underlying major cause of global warming.

In an article it I said that: You'll meet icebergs all over Greenland. They come in all shapes and sizes, and
no two icebergs are exactly alike. In the north, icebergs can be up to 100 meters in size; they're
considerably smaller in the south, yet they're still masterpieces.

They look magnificent as they slowly float out towards the open sea. They're given birth to by the Ice Sheet
and created by compacted snow which is thousands of years old. Each year the Ice Sheet produces
thousands of icebergs, where they calve particularly frequently in the central and north-western regions of
the country and along Greenland's east coast.

In many ways ice is synonymous with Greenland. The Ice Sheet is one thing, but the country is also known
for its field ice, which is sea ice formed in the Arctic Ocean north of Greenland. This ice drifts with the
current down the east coast of the country, rounds Cape Farewell in the south and then moves up the west
coast. Solid ice is formed in the fjords during the winter months, where it gets hold of the icebergs on the
way out to sea and keeps them in suspended animation until spring arrives and the onset of warmer
weather causes the white mass to disappear.

In the film he showed how the ice bergs are melting apart. It show the changes from before years until
summer of 2012 where they started to notice meltdown. A meltdown that alarmed scientists the world over.
Greenland is an island encased in ice and it's the world's second largest ice sheet after Antarctica. That
summer, ninety-seven percent of the surface ice melted. "Melting Point" is a comprehensive examination of
this event. The curious man even went on research for all the events that happened years ago. But as what
experts would say, people are the largest contributor to the meltdown, the entire cryosphere, the planet is in
total meltdown.

I am pleased that there are a lot of environmental campaign that would encourage people to change their
ways. I learned that pollution and drastic climate changes started when the industrialization started. Yet I
have known that these days, it would still be the entire population who are contributing to climate changes.

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