Weather vs Climate – Neil deGrasse Tyson
A simple but effective analogy explaining the difference between weather (short term patterns) and climate (long term patterns). Clip was taken from the recent science TV series Cosmos.
Look here for a good overall summary of the key points you should know about climate science and how climate destabilisation will impact you. Material in this section should be around 5-10 mins long and no more than 15 mins.
Click on each image to watch the corresponding video in a pop up box or alternatively click on the headline to go to the post that may contain a written explanation of the video in question. The grid at the bottom of the page works in much the same way but is also a representation of all the videos in this series. Just so you don’t miss out on anything.
James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss – TED
This is an 18 minute TED talk that renowned photographer James Balog, of the Extreme Ice Survey gave in Oxford in 2009. He talks about his quest to merge art and science together to produce irrefutable proof of the impact climate destabilisation is having on the glaciers of this world. Not only is his (time […]
Chasing Ice – Trailer
I watched the documentary Chasing Ice in at the ICA theatre in London and even on that relatively small screen the power of this film was almost overwhelming. It is the story of photographer James Balog and his quest to capture the changes that are happening in the Arctic. In 2007 he started up the […]
A New Climate State: Arctic Sea Ice 2012
A great little 6 min video by Peter Sinclair for The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media contains most of the important visualisations of how the extent of Arctic sea ice has declined over the last 30 years, reaching the lowest volume since records began in September of 2012.
David Roberts – Climate Change is Simple (TEDx)
In one of the better talks about climate destabilisation I have seen, David Roberts of Grist.org talks about the main causes and effects surrounding the topic. He covers the various scenarios of temperature rise in particular the really dangerous possibility the many positive feedback loops the earth’s climate system has will cause irreversible temperature rise […]
David Mitchell – Climate Change Doubters
Ah I love your rants David. I really do, you spit out half my convoluted thoughts and then some more in a nice 3 min diatribe that usually leaves me either clapping my hands or smiling in amusement and then wishing I could come up with something like that just once in my life. Anyway […]
CO2 Ink Demonstration
Dan Miller uses ink to demonstrate how CO2 can have a big impact on warming the earth even though it is a very small percent of the atmosphere. Just like alcohol or cyanide, small amounts can have big impacts For more information on climate change, visit Dan’s web site, ClimatePlace.org
