Last Hours (Documentary)
“Last Hours” is the first in a series of short films that explore the perils of climate change and the solutions to avert climate disaster.
Each subsequent film will highlight fact-based challenges facing the human race, and offer solutions to ameliorate these crises. The initial short film series will culminate in a feature film to be presented prior to COP21, the 2015 UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris.
An asset for the climate change movement, “Last Hours” will be disseminated globally to awaken modern culture worldwide about the various dangers associated with climate change.
“Last Hours” describes a science-based climate scenario where a tipping point to runaway climate change is triggered by massive releases of frozen methane. Methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, has already started to percolate into the open seas and atmosphere from methane hydrate deposits beneath melting arctic ice, from the warming northern-hemisphere tundra, and from worldwide continental-shelf undersea methane clathrate pools.
Burning fossil fuels release carbon that, principally through greenhouse effect, heat the atmosphere and the seas. This is happening most rapidly at the polar extremes, and this heating has already begun the process of releasing methane. If we do not begin to significantly curtail the use of carbon-based fossil fuels, this freed methane threatens to radically accelerate the speed of global warming, potentially producing a disaster beyond the ability of the human species to adapt.
This first video is designed to awaken people to the fact that the earth has experienced five major extinctions in the deep geologic past — times when more than half of all life on earth vanished — and that we are now entering a sixth extinction. Industrial civilization with its production of greenhouse gases has the ability to trigger a mass extinction; in the extreme, it could threaten not just human civilization, but the very existence of human life on this planet.
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“Last Hours” is presented and narrated by Thom Hartmann and directed by Leila Conners. Executive Producers are George DiCaprio and Earl Katz. Last Hours is produced by Mathew Schmid of Tree Media Foundation, and was written by Thom Hartmann, Sam Sacks, and Leila Conners. Music is composed and performed by Francesco Lupica.
Peter Sinclair notes: Thom Hartmann has produced a pretty scary, but rather accurate, piece here.
I’ve been thinking about the fine line between creating a sense of urgency vs a sense of hopelessness. There a natural urge among some folks to cut right to the “hopeless” phase, without actually wanting to do something about the problem.
There’s a lot of internet chatter about imminent doom for human civilization. And yes, I’m talking about you, Guy MacPherson.
This is, first of all, incorrect. Secondly, not helpful.
Even the worst case scenarios in the fossil record played out over millennia, and the experts I’ve talked to are pretty clear that no one, or at least very few, are expecting any kind of catastrophic single event in the coming few decades.
Important to remember that projected climate change impacts are a bell curve, as Stephen Schneider used to say, with “good for you” at one end, and “end of the world” on the other. Both those extremes are the most unlikely scenarios – but there’s a whole lot of that curve on this side of “end of the world” that we would still very much not like to see happen.Planet Earth is going to take a hit in the coming century. It falls mainly to the generation of human beings currently alive to decide if that’s going to be a 5 percent hit, a 50 percent hit, or a 90 percent hit. URL
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Interesting. kinda frightening if correct
Have we struck the match & ignited the inferno? Do we have time to
mitigate and correct our course?
Science is science.
Last Hours
‘ “Last Hours” describes a science-based climate scenario where a tipping
point to runaway climate change is triggered by massive releases of frozen
methane. Methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, has already started to
percolate into the open seas and atmosphere from methane hydrate deposits
beneath melting arctic ice, from the warming northern-hemisphere tundra,
and from worldwide continental-shelf undersea methane clathrate pools.
Burning fossil fuels release carbon that, principally through greenhouse
effect, heat the atmosphere and the seas. This is happening most rapidly at
the polar extremes, and this heating has already begun the process of
releasing methane. If we do not begin to significantly curtail the use of
carbon-based fossil fuels, this freed methane threatens to radically
accelerate the speed of global warming, potentially producing a disaster
beyond the ability of the human species to adapt.
This first video is designed to awaken people to the fact that the earth
has experienced five major extinctions in the deep geologic past — times
when more than half of all life on earth vanished — and that we are now
entering a sixth extinction. Industrial civilization with its production of
greenhouse gases has the ability to trigger a mass extinction; in the
extreme, it could threaten not just human civilization, but the very
existence of human life on this planet. ‘
We cannot ignore the overwhelming evidence that shows we impacting our
environment in negative ways. http://ow.ly/pHuTd
Have another beer please. Can’t understand a foolish believe system as
that. I suppose the world is flat and we are tortured by witches. Please
use your brain.
It goes on constantly. Isn’t that great! We are amazingly adaptive.
You don’t need a degree to figure out that we’re being lied to about
Climate Change. And even if Climate Change was nearly as dramatic as it is
being presented all the time, it certainly gives no one the right to impose
regulation on me based on this or tax the shit outta me to make me a good
climate slave. If you’re female, please realize that it is thanks to
industrialization, that you are not being oppressed and treated as equal.
So if anything you should root for more industrialization.
“So why should we risk these catastrophic events?” Because the power
released by burning fossil fuels, the economic activity whose side effect
is deforestation, etc., is very USEFUL to many people and institutions.
It doesn’t appear our kids are going to have a pleasant future if we carry
on with our continued path of ecological destruction. You don’t have to
agree with everything in this documentary, but if we keep ignoring the
scientists and carry on, I worry about the long term consequences.
Bull Shit.
An energy revolution is coming, you can make millions from the shift to
clean energy. Stop denying on get on board now while you can. In ten years,
clean energy will be what google is to the internet. It’s going to happen
with or without you.
Google drunken trees. Then report back to head quarters.
Also, a fun fact: The Ice Age isn’t even fully over, and life will
adapt…unless something fucked up happens, which is highly unlikely.
how the hell do they know how many times this has happened? and when its
what? 450 million years ago…
^^ life will adapt ^^ How insane! Do you know what adaptation means? It
means death for those specimens not adatped. It’s simple. We could usher an
age of misery or we could take simple steps to reduce our impact on ecology
and biodiversity. It starts with smaller family size. EVERY habitat problem
has a number of humans as a factor.
Damn … I was hoping the human race would die out a lot sooner than this
is predicting. The world is filling up so quickly with ignorant, self
absorbed fucktards that the sooner it happens the better in my opinion :)
Go read a book.
And before I go to bed, some cheerful news.
Also, a handy website that summarizes our situation:
http://planetextinction.com/
I believe in climate change, but people have used that particular argument,
the ontological argument, to justify so many things, including cults and
dictatorships.
*”**+Last Hours**”* is the first in a series of short films that explore
the perils of climate change and the solutions to avert climate disaster.
(10 mins) lasthours.org
“Last Hours” is the first in a series of short films that explore the
perils of climate change and the solutions to avert climate disaster. Each
subsequent film will highlight fact-based challenges facing the human race,
and offer solutions to ameliorate these crises. The initial short film
series will culminate in a feature film to be presented prior to COP21, the
2015 UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris.
An asset for the climate change movement, “Last Hours” will be disseminated
globally to awaken modern culture worldwide about the various dangers
associated with climate change.
“Last Hours” describes a science-based climate scenario where a tipping
point to runaway climate change is triggered by massive releases of frozen
methane. Methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, has already started to
percolate into the open seas and atmosphere from methane hydrate deposits
beneath melting arctic ice, from the warming northern-hemisphere tundra,
and from worldwide continental-shelf undersea methane clathrate pools.
Burning fossil fuels release carbon that, principally through greenhouse
effect, heat the atmosphere and the seas. This is happening most rapidly at
the polar extremes, and this heating has already begun the process of
releasing methane. If we do not begin to significantly curtail the use of
carbon-based fossil fuels, this freed methane threatens to radically
accelerate the speed of global warming, potentially producing a disaster
beyond the ability of the human species to adapt.
This first video is designed to awaken people to the fact that the earth
has experienced five major extinctions in the deep geologic past — times
when more than half of all life on earth vanished — and that we are now
entering a sixth extinction. Industrial civilization with its production of
greenhouse gases has the ability to trigger a mass extinction; in the
extreme, it could threaten not just human civilization, but the very
existence of human life on this planet.
The world community and global citizens urgently need to chart a path
forward that greatly reduces green house gas emissions.
“Last Hours” is presented and narrated by Thom Hartmann and directed by
Leila Conners. Executive Producers are George DiCaprio and Earl Katz. Last
Hours is produced by Mathew Schmid of Tree Media Foundation, and was
written by Thom Hartmann, Sam Sacks, and Leila Conners. Music is composed
and performed by Francesco Lupica.
http://lasthours.org/
Last Hours
“Last Hours” is the first in a series of short films that explore the
perils of climate change and the solutions to avert climate disaster. Each
subsequent film will highlight fact-based challenges facing the human race,
and offer solutions to ameliorate these crises. The initial short film
series will culminate in a feature film to be presented prior to COP21, the
2015 UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris.
An asset for the climate change movement, “Last Hours” will be disseminated
globally to awaken modern culture worldwide about the various dangers
associated with climate change.
“Last Hours” describes a science-based climate scenario where a tipping
point to runaway climate change is triggered by massive releases of frozen
methane. Methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, has already started to
percolate into the open seas and atmosphere from methane hydrate deposits
beneath melting arctic ice, from the warming northern-hemisphere tundra,
and from worldwide continental-shelf undersea methane clathrate pools.
Burning fossil fuels release carbon that, principally through greenhouse
effect, heat the atmosphere and the seas. This is happening most rapidly at
the polar extremes, and this heating has already begun the process of
releasing methane. If we do not begin to significantly curtail the use of
carbon-based fossil fuels, this freed methane threatens to radically
accelerate the speed of global warming, potentially producing a disaster
beyond the ability of the human species to adapt.
This first video is designed to awaken people to the fact that the earth
has experienced five major extinctions in the deep geologic past — times
when more than half of all life on earth vanished — and that we are now
entering a sixth extinction. Industrial civilization with its production of
greenhouse gases has the ability to trigger a mass extinction; in the
extreme, it could threaten not just human civilization, but the very
existence of human life on this planet.
The world community and global citizens urgently need to chart a path
forward that greatly reduces green house gas emissions.
“Last Hours” is presented and narrated by Thom Hartmann and directed by
Leila Conners. Executive Producers are George DiCaprio and Earl Katz. Last
Hours is produced by Mathew Schmid of Tree Media Foundation, and was
written by Thom Hartmann, Sam Sacks, and Leila Conners. Music is composed
and performed by Francesco Lupica.
http://lasthours.org/
Last Hours
*”**+Last Hours**”* is the first in a series of short films that explore
the perils of climate change and the solutions to avert climate disaster.
(10 mins) lasthours.org
LAST HOURS
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A thought provoking documentary
Last Hours
Even propaganda on global warming. =_= All of our solar system and planet
have warmed, the sun is the cause, so if you want to cool the earth, you
need to cool the sun. this works per cycle, everything is natural, but when
man decides to play with the ignorance of others, he sees a good way to
make money by taxing the sheep, claiming that it is our fault. Not only is
the warming has ceased from 15 years, but we begin the cycle of cooling, it
is urgent to tax you, before you notice the scam. :P
Of course, I have no calls people to pollute, but we must open our eyes
and not be manipulated by governments, in French, the word “gouvernement”
comes from two separate words, “gouverner” (govern) and “mentir” (lie), the
words still have meaning :D
Many? Evidence please.
you must search a bit, I have articles and interviews with climatologists
French, but in English, it is more complicated, as I said, propaganda comes
from the United States, then it does not help not, but as I see some people
here prefer to note my comments in spam, it is simpler to believe
everything we say, continue to believe, as September 11, 2001. traduisez
cette interview, ce sera un bon début. h t t p : / / w w w . pensee-unique
. fr/leroux.pdf
Think you can’t DO ANYTHING to help the ENVIRONMENT?
You can > VOTE for Democrats. Recycle. Stop buying stuff you don’t need.
Travel less. Eat organic food.
I am astounded we have to keep talking about some of this. Like recycling.
I see so many recyclables in my local garbage. What has happened? Why isn’t
everyone recycling everything or taking their own cups etc. to events? &
the only way we are going to get the green energy changes our world needs
is by policy change.
Everyone oohs and ahhs when they see the beauty of our world, but then it
seems like brains switch off when people have to DO anything to help it.
THE PLANET NEEDS OUR HELP NOW.
IMPORTANT > Last Hours Video by Thom Hartmann
It is indisputable that CO2 rises and temperature rises are linked, its
happen before in the history of our planet, with no human action, take the
Permian mass extinction for example. The question isn’t whether CO2 causes
warming, its whether or not we’re the ones doing it, and, if you look at
the CO2 levels in the atmosphere, and see when they started rapidly rising,
you’ll notice it happened right around the time of the industrial
revolution.
And, even if our contribution to the global temperature increases is
minimal, shouldn’t we be doing all we can to keep them as low as possible?
Not just for some hippy “safe the planet” type deal, but for our own sakes,
for our children’s sakes, for our grandchildren, and all the future
generations. I’d much prefer we do all we can to stop climate change, and
find out it was nothing to be worried about after all, than to do nothing,
and find out we’re the cause.
Co² rise temperature -> totaly wrong ! h t t p : / / youtu . be /
pWma5e3CVj0 first look reveals that the independent people, and then if you
want to continue to debate, that will be a good foundation for the time you
just throw the propaganda of governments, and I have other things to do
than to answer.
You discribe writ of law prefectly. If the carbon tax is too light then the
industries just pass it on to the consumers. If you make it too high they
shut down. There is no middle ground. So either you do nothing but raise
prices or you cause a sudden shutdown brought on by writ of law. Both of
those choices are bad.
The Madeiran Large White went extinct because of the use of fertilizer and
construction, not CO2. The Golden Toad went extinct in 1989. The Baiji
Dolphin in 2007. So the “Mass extiction that has already begun” according
to rprohbeck is just 2 in 18 years. Hardly massive. As to the 82% fish
figure you tossed out. It is a meaningless made up number. Nobody can
actually know something like that. What they have is computer code that
churned out a number.
it blows my mind that the comments under a video like this end up being
more about weather climate change is real or caused by humans or lets blame
government my favorite is concern for the economic impact of steps taken to
curb climate change if its real and we do nothing we are all dead i think
giving up some junk and money may be even suffering a little would seem
better then continuing the way things are and taking the chance that we are
all dead any ways
“Fertilizer and construction” = pollution. Not CO2 pollution, but still
pollution. And, as far as I know, Climate Change has been around since the
industrial revolution, it was hypothesized even back then. maybe not
accurately, but the general idea was put forward. And you’re right, no one
can know, because this is the first time anything like it has happened in
the course of human history. Computer’s are the best chance of knowing what
will happen.
WHERE WERE YOU WHEN REPUBLICONS DESTROYED THE WORLD ?
no buddy,,, corporations own your government , democrats as well ,,,
This is a real & silent threat.
Underground, underwater and below the ice.
A time bomb is ticking.
Scientists are seeing the evidence.
Runaway climate change could be closer than we think.
Underground, underwater and below the ice.
A time bomb is ticking.
Scientists are seeing the evidence.
Runaway climate change could be closer than we think.
I stopped watching when he said that climate change could end all life on
earth. Don’t get me wrong, climate change is a real threat to humanity and
many species but it wouldn’t mean the end of all life on earth. Life has
survived way worse. Even if it’s only bacteria and other simple organisms,
life on earth will go on. We are at a weird adolescent stage where we can
destroy ourselves but not a planet.
Did you hear about the Permian mass extinction? Life almost didn’t survive
that, and it was because of climate change.
Computers do the nasty calculations we don’t like. Take 1835720*901284932,
I can’t say I’d enjoy doing that, if it needed to be done. Computers don’t
do the thinking for us, we do the thinking, and, after telling to computers
our thinking, they do the nasty calculations, which we could do, but, to
save time, and effort, we don’t. I daresay that when checking your expenses
on your credit card you don’t add it up in your head. (cont)
And you’re 100% correct, the climate has always changed, and always will
change, but never this rapidly. Not once in human history have we seen
400ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere. We can’t know what will happen based off
calculations done off the top of our head, we need computers to crunch the
numbers so we can analyse them and apply them to the world. And, as a side
note, it is rather difficult to determine how species are dying, its mostly
conjecture and hypothesis.
In Australia, we have privatised power (really stupid, I know), if the
government where to slam the power industry with a massive carbon tax /
carbon pricing scheme, it would instantly force the highest polluters out
of business, and, if the money that was gathered from this tax / pricing
scheme was used to support businesses, then they could survive. Pushing the
most polluting power stations out of business and replacing them with gov.
ones, with a gov. operated power distributor, that (cont)
charged very little for power, majority of people would switch to them,
making it harder for coal power plants to get any form of revenue, and
making it easy for the government to buy back the power stations(not
exactly like this). Then they replace them all with Nuclear / renewables,
and could sell them back to private companies (if they really wanted to),
and not allow the building of any coal stations. It would be very hard on
people financially, but in the long run it would most likely help.
Governments keep the ability to produce power higher then demand. Its this
crazy idea that if something bad should happen we would like to still have
power to deal with the catastrophy. The UK is going to have a bunch of coal
fired plants shut down for good in 2014 for the reasons you stated. The
result will be that the energy reserve will be lowered from the 20% they
like to keep it at to 5%. They are expecting rolling blackouts when those
renewables aren’t producing in full.