When most of us hear the term 'grandfather clause' we just think of the generalized description: a person or entity that is allowed to continue operating over now expired rules.
As far as he was concerned, these melodramatic doomsayers were distracting from the real issues. There was too much margin of error in the computer simulations, too many other pressing problems to address about our beautiful planet. It didn't seem probable, it didn't seem possible,' he explained in the 2012 documentary film ' Chasing Ice.' 'I didn't think that humans were capable of changing the basic physics and chemistry of this entire, huge planet. And for nearly 20 years, he'd scoffed at the climate change heralds shouting, 'The sky is falling! The sky is falling!' But once upon a time, Balog was openly skeptical about that 'global warming' thing.īalog had a reputation since the early 1980s as a conservationist and environmental photographer. It won't be the last time something like this happens either. A representation demonstrating the massive size of ice that broke off into the sea.Īs far as anyone knows, this was an unprecedented geological catastrophe and they caught the entire thing on tape.
