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  • 2018-10-19 (xsd:date)
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  • Do These Photographs Show the Same Spot in the Arctic 100 Years Apart? (en)
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  • In early October 2018, the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a dire report stating that unprecedented efforts were needed in order to prevent destabilization of Earth's climate. The report reignited (at least briefly) interest in global warming and climate change and drew social media's attention toward an image comparison supposedly documenting the stark changes seen in photographs of the same spot in the Arctic taken 103 years apart: This image comparison was part of a 2003 series created by photographer Christian Åslund and Greenpeace, titled Glacier comparison – Svalbard. The series, which featured seven such comparisons, used archival photographs from the Norwegian Polar Institute taken in the early 1900s and contemporary photographs shot in the same locations by Åslund. The photographer talked briefly about this project in an interview with National Geographic in 2017: Here's another image from that series: We came across a few comments underneath a posting of this viral photograph expressing skepticism that these pictures documented the results of climate change, rather than simply capturing ordinary seasonal changes. The top image, they posited, was taken in the winter, while the bottom image was snapped during the summer. We reached out to Åslund for more information about the viral comparison images, and he told us that both of the photographs were taken during the summer months: Of course, these photographs alone don't prove climate change, but they are nonetheless visual records that document some significant differences seen in the Arctic landscape across the span of a century. (en)
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