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That this president or this congress can affect major change on this issue over the next four years? >> yeah. that's a really tough question, and obviously, climate change has been turned into a political debate which is a real shame because this is not a political issue. this is not something that will only affect the left or the right. it's something that will affect all human civilization moving forward. from that perspective it's something that we need to take action with and something that we need to address as quickly as possible. it's taken a long time to see the consequences of burning...

The time lapses and we captured in "chasing ice" is you can see the process. we've always seen clips of ice, and he's documented the process for over five years and you can see the glaciers retreating at very, very large scales over a significant period of time and it's the first edz of climate change. >> i understand you still have 30 cameras rolling out there right now. what are we seeing right now? what are we seeing right now? >> we have 34 cameras in 16 glaciers and they're in greenland, iceland, alaska and glacier national park and we're seeing the glaciers that we've been documenting ha...

Northrop grumman. putting really delicate electronics in the harshest conditions on the planet. >> that landscape was gone it may never be seen again in the history of civilization and it's stored right here. >> we were watch withing from the award-winning documentary "chasing ice" playing all over movie theaters. it is set up strategically over the arctic and how they are able to tell an unprecedented story of climate change is the focus of today's "what's the big idea?" segment. jeff, good afternoon to you, sir. >> thanks very much, craig. >> we knew theglaciers are in trouble and we know ...

Hurricane sandy is only the latest in what have become all too frequent occurrences of extreme weather. the new documentary "chasing ice "follows a photographer and his team as they record the impact of our warming planet. >> it all started in iceland. >> think i'm so certain to get wet i'll take my boots off. >> i never imagined that you could see glaciers this big disappearing in such a short time. there's a powerful piece of history that's unfolding in these pictures, and i have to go back. >> joining me now is james balogg, photographer and environmentalist and author of the newly released...