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Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Deforestation and the use of fossil fuels are not the only human activities causing climate change. Other aspects of modern life are adding to the problem by producing greenhouse gases, like methane, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons. Let’s examine where they come from.
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Svalbard can be a lonely place. Most of its residents have sacrificed the closeness of friends and family to live in this arctic paradise so visitors are a big deal. Christine's sister, Catherine gets to grips with Arctic life when she visits from northern England. Mary Ann's son, Vidda, who lives 1700kms away comes to her rescue as he's the only person she trusts in her kitchen. Pastor Leif's nephew, Leif Jone, an international opera singer, comes...
Series
Pub. Date
[2014], c2014
Language
English
Description
The series premiere of this globetrotting series about the human impacts of climate change explores the devastating effects of extreme drought and deforestation. Harrison Ford travels to Indonesia to investigate how the world's appetite for palm oil-an ingredient in everything from candy bars to laundry detergent-has led to massive deforestation and turned that country into one of the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases. Back in the U.S.,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The Clean Water and Clean Air Acts are federal laws that rely upon citizen participation for their successful implementation. This lesson chapter explains how model ordinances can be put into place to assist municipalities in becoming more sustainable, and the role that students, teachers and citizen activists can play in that process. This section explores how citizens’ willingness to pay, through state and local bond issues, for parks, public...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Arnold Schwarzenegger explores how the military is adapting to climate change and limiting national security risk by increasing energy efficiency and using renewables, but needs to increase the pace of this adaptation. In Kuwait, he sees how fuel convoys are responsible for most US soldier deaths. He finds how our armed forces are dealing with an increased number of climate-related military conflicts and natural disasters. Cattle ranching, drought,...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Water covers most of our Earth’s surface area. In this program, we’ll discuss the characteristics of the sea and its impact on climates and coast lines. Topics include: Marine Plants, Sea Water Characteristics, Ocean Currents, Sea Water Temperature, Wave and Tide Formation, Tsunamis, The Sea Bed, and Underwater Gas and Petroleum Deposits.
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Earth's climate is changing - understanding how has become one of the biggest scientific projects ever undertaken. The program looks at the incredible methods that allowed scientists to arrive at precise figures, and uses stories from around the world to present this previously obscure field in an engrossing, accessible way. A timely and intriguing take on an urgent issue, Climate Change by Numbers reveals why scientists are so certain they are right,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Bernice Notenboom leads an expedition from the Himalayas to the plains of India, following one of the most famous river systems in the world - the Ganges. Fresh water sources from the Himalayas that provide water to over 1 billion people are under threat, but just what is happening here and how fast is what Bernice sets out to find out. In this film, she witnesses black carbon in glaciers, visits a village that was caught in a flash flood, explores...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Carbon Almanac is a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between hundreds of writers, researchers, thinkers, and illustrators that focuses on what we know, what has come before, and what might happen next. Drawing on over 1,000 data points, the book uses cartoons, quotes, illustrations, tables, histories, and articles to lay out carbon's impact on our food system, ocean acidity, agriculture, energy, biodiversity, extreme weather events, the economy,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In Uganda, Siwan quickly learns how important trees are for the survival of the vulnerable community of Mbale. Despite being 15,000km apart, with differing cultures, traditions and wealth, Uganda and California share one very important commonality—they are both on the frontline of the climate challenge.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From a writer and climate-change expert who has been at the center of the fight for more than thirty years, a brilliant big-picture reckoning with the reasons for our shocking failure to this point, focusing on the malign power of key business interests, and arguing that those same interests could flip this story very quickly, if a looming economic catastrophe doesn't happen first. Eugene Linden wrote his first big cover story on climate change,...
14) Climate and Man
Series
Pub. Date
[2006], c1990
Language
English
Description
The history of Earth has been a history of temperature change; people and animals have historically moved to better climes, richer pastures, and areas of more abundant food. The problem now is that "somewhere else" is already occupied; meanwhile, temperatures appear to be rising, with foreseeably disastrous consequences. The gases in the air which cause the greenhouse effect have made life possible; too many gases, however, and catastrophe looms....
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Made in consultation with the IPCC and world leading climate scientists, this brand new, groundbreaking documentary explains the big headlines that will be addressed by the Fifth Assessment Report in 2015, and how we may be in the middle of the most crucial moment of Earth's history. It decodes thousands of pages of scientific data into digestible, easy to understand science, punctuated in places by clever, creative CGI. Areas of concern covered include...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Whatever your views, climate change is now a familiar part of everyday conversation. We all know what it is, even if we don't all agree on what we think about it. But 50 years ago, the science of climate change was an academic backwater. The journey from scientific obscurity to the full glare of publicity has been fascinating, full of strange twists, extreme natural disasters, ambitious theories and changing fashions. This Horizon Guide looks back...
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