Zwischen Himmel und Eis

A beautiful documentary explaining and demonstrating how the ice cores tell their message. If the politicians had one-hundredth of the grit, determination, integrity, humility and humanity demonstrated by these scientists then the planet would not be in the mess it is in now. We are privileged to be able to view Monsieur Lorius' life story. At the end he shares "Man is never so sublimely in his element than faced with adversity". Sadly, this is for men like him and his bullet-proof friends, and not I would dare to suggest does it compare to the uninformed masses of slack jawed, obese, Youtube watching, materialistic consumers that now comprise "developed" society. Possibly an epitaph to the human race.

Witness the start of spoiling the last unspoiled continent: the "scientist" offering a cigarette to penuins, creating explosions to break the ice, leaving huge pile of trash (starting with the broken sled), etc.

"Congrat" to starting the ruin of Antarctica!

Nowadays, Antarctica is invaded by mobs of tourists who can afford to wade there, leaving increasingly large footprints everywhere they reach.

Ironically, people who clamor against climate change are those who are willing to pay -dearly- for spoiling the environment with unsustainable tourism.

Back to this so-called documentary", which in fact is a soliloquy - in an annoying voice- of whatever an 82 year old can still remember, obviously subjective, and tainted by the passing of time and the onset of senility.

• Amazing Documentary, a MUST WATCH
• Stunning Videography like Never seen before
• Inspiring

Riveting, inspiring journey of a man, an explorer, a scientist, a pioneer - Claude Lorius, as a young 23 year old in Antartica to now 86 year old (2018) , who help map the entire history of our climate from the air bubbles in the ice cores of Antartica dating back to 420,000 years, which established irrefutable evidence of how the climatic conditions of earth changed over time and more recently the devastating impact of humans on climate.

A man who cannot stop to think now, how, we as individuals will do our part to preserve the our planet earth.

It's a documentary about a French scientist Claude Lorius and his work in the Antarctic, and how he came to 2 discoveries: 1) measuring temperature in distant past by the predominant type of hydrogen in the snowflakes found deep below in the ice of Antarctica and 2) seeing climate of distant past by the air bubbles stored in that deep ice.

If you like science and documentaries about nature you will definitely like this film, too. But for an average spectator the film is probably too slow-paced, and lacks the typical tricks modern American documentaries like to use to keep the viewer's attention. It's a European film, so it deliberately avoids cheap tricks and counts on the viewer's intelligence.

Also, the film mentions facts about climate change. You've probably heard this many times already, and David Attenborough (and Carl Sagan) and many others have mention this over and over, but temperature is rising, and it's man-caused. And despite the Kyoto protocol et al, no one really cares. Btw due to the film's detachment for an average viewer, it won't ever be watched by deniers of climate change and basically most of the people who still need convincing.

On a side note, I liked the positive light in which the Russian scientists and the Vostok station was mentioned. Apparently, their station and drilling tech was vital for collection of massive data about past climate on Earth. So rare to see anything positive about Russia in a western film these days.

After watching this, all I wanted was to give this old Frenchman a hug and thank him for all his outstanding work. I hope we will still have enough people like him in this and coming generations.