Browse Items (17 total)
Sort by:
Six Degrees Could Change the World
Based on Mark Lynas’s Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, this program explores the theory that Earth’s average temperature could rise six degrees Celsius by the year 2100. One poignant degree at a time, the consequences of rising…
Thin Ice: The Inside Story of Climate Science
In recent years, climate science has come under attack, so concerned geologist Simon Lamb grabbed his camera and set out to explore the inside story of climate research. For over three years he followed scientists from a wide range of disciplines at…
Climate Change: A Horizon Guide
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…
Earth's Survival: Decoding the Science
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…
Earth in 1000 Years
This eye-opening documentary explores the latest scientific and technological developments in the study of earth’s melting ice stores to discover the fate of our planet in 1000 years time. Reaching deep into our planet’s history, scientists…
Surviving Earth
Surviving Earth is an independent Australian documentary featuring insight from Professor Tim Flannery, Ian Dunlop, Professor Paul Ehrlich, permaculturalist David Holmgren, Aboriginal elder Uncle Bob Randall, Professor Ian Lowe, Major-General Michael…
Red Ice
The polar regions are being affected by global warming much more intensely than any other part of the world. The global mean temperature has risen around 1.1 degree Celsius since 1990, but in the Arctic it has risen more than twice that number.…
Secrets of the Oceans: Climate Control
When it comes to regulating global temperatures, forget the Amazon rainforest. It’s the oceans that really deserve the title of 'lungs of the planet'. Their plankton provides us with oxygen. Their currents transport heat from the tropical regions…
My City, Your City: A Senegalese Mayor Fights Sea Level Rise
During the annual rainy season in Saint-Louis, one of Senegal’s largest cities, thousands of people face upheaval from flood devastation linked to rising sea levels. There are no funds to build a cement sea wall, so the city dumps garbage along its…
Before the Flood
How much time do we have before our ecosystem collapses? Fronted by Academy Award®-winning actor, environmental activist and UN Messenger of Peace, Leonard DiCaprio, this landmark new film presents an informative and engaging account of how society…
Growing Glaciers
Glaciers are a good indicator of climate change. Generally speaking, the warmer it gets, the more they shrink. Evidence from many sources shows the average global climate is warming, so why do some glaciers appear to be growing? Explore this paradox…
Be Prepared for Global Warming
According to many scientists, global warming is irreversible—but its progress can be slowed, its impact managed. This program examines strategies, many of them in operation, designed to protect land and populations made vulnerable by rapidly rising…
Science of Climatology, The
Since the Industrial Revolution sparked the widespread burning of fossil fuels, scientists have concerned themselves with the climatic effects of carbon dioxide. This program spotlights milestones in the history of that research as it seeks to…
Moving a Mountain
In the final episode of the series “Years of Living Dangerously”, Michael C. Hall concludes his journey to Bangladesh, where rising seas are expected to submerge 17% of the nation. After traveling to Christmas Island in episode three, M. Sanjayan…
Surge, The
In episode three of the series "Years of Living Dangerously", MSNBC’s Chris Hayes shadows a climate change skeptic, Republican Congressman Michael Grimm, for a year in Staten Island in the wake of Superstorm Sandy and questions what he might have…
Africa Droughts and Floods
Global climate change significantly affects the people of Africa. Bernice Notenboom leads an expedition from far North of the Sahara to a far south Cape Town to explore climate changes affecting Africa’s vital weather systems that provide natural…
Dangerous Rise of Oceans
Bernice Notenboom leads an expedition from the Great Southern Ocean to the Great Barrier Reef to explore the changing currents and oceans that are driving extreme storms, sea surge, and changing the landscape of many small South Pacific communities.…