International award winning photographer and cinematographer, Kevin J Railsback takes you on an incredible journey through our natural world.From a gently flowing creek in the Iowa countryside to the top predators in the Yellowstone food chain, and everything in-between.Along the way you’ll get an opportunity to get inside the mind of filmmaker Kevin J Railsback. Learn how he captures some of his incredible footage with helpful tips as well as how he puts it all together in front of his camera lens.
About Kevin J RailsabckAward-winning filmmaker Kevin J Railsback has traveled as far as Africa to test HD cameras for Panasonic.
His stunning nature and wildlife footage has appeared in productions on National Geographic, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel as well as in commercials for such corporate giants as AT&T.
Global Warming Ice Age?
Water flows around a patch of ice in a small Iowa creek
On Feb. 2, 2007, the United Nations scientific panel studying climate change declared that the evidence of a warming trend is “unequivocal,” and that human activity has “very likely” been the driving force in that change over the last 50 years. The last report by the group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in 2001, had found that humanity had “likely” played a role.
Scientists and governments will debate this to the last person standing. Trouble is, by the time there’s a consensus will it be too late to reverse it if they find global warming is a reality?
If you ask an Iowan if there’s global warming they’ll laugh in your face. Seems the last few winters have been pretty brutal. Last year, several cities beat their all time snowfall totals.
So what gives? Is the Earth warming? If so, why does it seem that Iowa winters are getting colder and nastier?
What a lot of people fail to mention is that as the Earth warms, weather patterns change. Places that were warm are cooler,places that had little rain have more etc. Chances are you’ve probably noticed a change in the weather patterns where you live.
But if the Earth is warming, how can Winters in Iowa be getting worse instead of better?
One theory is that the polar ice is melting and cooling the ocean which is changing weather patterns. These weather patterns create changes bringing in colder Arctic air which Iowa happens to be in the way of.
So, in the Arctic scientists are seeing ice shelves break up early, freeze later and glaciers retreating at a record pace.
Scientists are concerned that the melting ice will cause the extinction of the polar bear in the wild within a generation.
Polar bears are drowning because they can’t find Arctic ice shelves to haul them selves up on. There have been reports of polar bears swimming sixty miles from the nearest ice or land mass.
So as I watch the radar this evening and wait for the snow to hit, it’s hard sometimes to believe that we’re warming the planet with our greenhouse gases. But even if it was all a bunch of bologna, how much more can the planet take before it does collapse if it isn’t in the process already?