These make us know Climate Change is real!

 CNN posted Ten Searing Photographs that made the World wake up to Climate Change.

There's also a wonderful video about the photographer's work. Protectors of the Sea.

This is a note that I missed before looking at the photos...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet initiative has partnered with CNN to drive awareness and education around key sustainability issues and to inspire positive action.

Waterfalls pour off a Nordaustlandet ice cap in Svalbard, Norway, during an unusually warm summer in 2014. Photo by Paul Niklen

 

I took a deep breath and started looking at the photos. Until I saw people and animals, I was able to control my sense of awe. The shocks came with giraffes, polar bears and people in a photo next to one of two remaining northern white rhinos. These photographers are documenting the climate crisis.

Rushing waters might also be a theme for these photos...mostly melting, some rising in threats to villages.

I hope you take a moment to look at the video at least...many wonderful inspiring images there.

Hope 

Among the images of devastation and displacement, there are also those that signify hope. In [photogrpher] Brandt’s work, he points out that the subjects of the images, both people and animals, are survivors – “And therein lies hope and possibility,” he wrote in an email.

For [authors and photographers] Mittermeier and Nicklen, and "SeaLegacy" as a whole, striking a message of hope is vital to the wider mission. “Martin Luther King didn’t start his famous speech by reminding us that we live in a nightmare – he told us what the dream is,” says Mittermeier. “You have to point out what it is that we’re aspiring to and show where the hope is.”

“It was the most poetic, beautiful scene I’d ever seen, but it was also haunting and scary,”[Nicklen] recalls. The picture came to symbolize the realities of climate change and became Nicklen’s best-selling fine art image. It appeared multiple times in National Geographic, was used by Al Gore in his climate talks, and graced the cover of Pearl Jam’s 2020 album “Gigaton,” the title of which refers to the unit used to calculate ice mass.

SOURCE: CNN Call to Earth which has many more stories of interest.