global warming

As 2010 came to a close -- a year many would wish to have been a better one in climate and energy actions -- Gary Braasch was awarded twice for his documentation of climate change and environmental issues. Britain's Outdoor Photography magazine called him one of the world's most influential nature photographers. And the Resource Renewal Institute named him a 2010 River Warrior, citing his "absolutely critical" work showing the impacts and conditions of climate change.
During the year, Gary created new bodies of work, building on and comparing with a decade's documentation of climate and environment. Among the achievements:
Travel to Miami and the Keys in Florida, Maryland and Outer Banks coastal towns of North Carolina to photograph the damage to eroding shorelines. In Nevada and California, the focus was on new solar and wind energy installations spreading across the landscape – as well as the loss of water in Lake Mead to record levels below 1090 feet, with comparison photographs.
The middle of the year was dominated by coverage of the BP Gulf oil disaster. Images are available for energy policy work and a follow up trip is planned.
The "Climate Change in Our World" exhibition at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) was extended twice and remained on view in the Capitol until May.
Gary presented at the Phoenix Art Museum in connection with an Ansel Adams exhibit and had a prominent exhibit in the EPA's 40th Anniversary celebration during Earth Day on the National Mall.
Five images from the March rephotography trip to Florida and North Carolina coasts were chosen as a featured display for the newly redesigned Koshland Science Museum at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC (opens in early 2011).
Gary's children's book How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate won its 16th top award, this time from the American Meteorological Society. Earth Under Fire is now available as an e-book from University of California Press.
In 2011, Gary will rephotograph on Tuvalu and visit Kiribati and locations on Fiji which are also directly affected now by higher sea levels. Work in Alaska and along American coasts is also planned.

For more information about World View of Global Warming' achievements, please see the Project Background page.
Locations documented by Gary Braasch in World View of Global Warming, 1999-2010


This project would be impossible without scientists and observers around the world who have provided hundreds of scientific contacts and papers. See Background, Advisors, and Reference for documentation, funders and major advisors, without whom I could not complete the work.
World View of Global Warming is a project of the Blue Earth Alliance, Seattle Washington, a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. The project is supported entirely by donations, grants, and license fees for the photographs.