Melting Point

On July 5th 2018, an unprecedented event took place in Northern Siberia, along the coast of the Arctic Ocean, which has triggered the alarm. A heat wave made temperatures soar 25ºC above normal on those summer days to a record-breaking temperature of 33ºC.

That heat wave spread all over those Northern latitudes, from Canada through Greenland, the Scandinavian countries and Russia making the temperatures rise to record highs.

On 25th May 2017, the Larsen C ice shelf rift completed its path through the ice. As a consequence, a huge iceberg of 5800 km2 calved away from the ice shelf. This enormous iceberg was one of the biggest ever recorded. But this wasn’t an isolated case. On 12th July 2012, for the first time since we started keeping satellite records 30 years ago, 97% of the frozen surface of Greenland started to thaw.

Even in the central area of the huge island, at an altitude of more than 2000 meters, signs of thawing have been detected, something that hadn’t happened since 1889. Maybe just a few millimeters of the huge ice-sheet had melted, however, the fact that it happened for the first time ever shocked the whole international scientific community. All these events corroborate a fact that has been observed for more than 20 years: the impact and speed of climate change in the Polar Regions is much greater than in the rest of the world.

With a frank and concerned tone, this film explores the rapidly changing landscape of the Earth and the critical steps needed in order to save the planet from the impact of humanity.