National Geographic photographer James Balog is featured in the Sundance award-winning documentary "Chasing Ice," which looks at the impact global warming is having on the Arctic. Balog has set up cameras in the Arctic to shoot every hour of daylight to show the changes to the region. Balog joins Morning Joe with director Jeff Orlowski.By Karl Ritter, Associated PressDOHA, Qatar -- Despite cooling from La Nina early in the year, 2012 is on track to become one of the top 10 warmest years on record, with the U.S. experiencing extreme warmth and Arctic Sea ice shrinking to its lowest extent, the U.N. weather agency said Wednesday.
In a statement released (http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/press_releases/pr_966_en.html) at international climate talks in Qatar, the World Meteorological Organization said the "alarming rate" of the Arctic melt highlights the far-reaching changes caused by global warming.
"Climate change is taking place before our eyes and will continue to do so as a result of the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which have risen constantly and again reached new records," WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said.
Delegates from nearly 200 countries are meeting in Doha, Qatar, to discuss ways of slowing climate change, including by cutting emissions of greenhouse gases that scientists say are warming the planet, melting ice caps, raising sea levels, and changing rainfall patterns with impacts on floods and droughts.
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