Missed an item this week? Review the news and posts covered by ClimateState during the week 28, 2014. July 7, 2014 Bad news about rising sea levels as quickening Antarctic winds lead to faster ice melt New mechanism uncovered, causing potentially rapid Antarctic Glacier melt Rose-colored glasses: Antarctic sea ice is the Mail on Sunday’s…
Rupert Murdoch, recently gave an interview to Sky News Australia. When it comes to climate impacts, according to Murdoch we just have to move a bit inland and the worst is a temperature rise of 3 degree and a modest sea level rise of six inches. However, according to the IPCC (representing the best science…
The famous Bell Telephone Hour clip, with the all knowing Dr Frank Baxter explaining a very modern understanding of climate science in 1958. Enlightening and infuriating. Bell Telephone Science Hour Frank Capra warns of Global Warming (1958) 1958 – Frank Capra warns of Global Warming In 1958, Director Frank Capra made a movie for Bell…
Frank Capra directed (from 1952–1956), the famous Bell Telephone Science Hour specials from the 1950s. The series highlighted the then-emerging research on climate change, and the birth of solar energy technology, and what it all meant – below the fold. Related Bell Laboratory Science Series: Our Mr. Sun (1956) Educational Film
Most people probably know Easter Island and the theory by Jared Diamond about the environmental destruction there, however the opposite example is called Anuta, and shows that a sustainable life with nature is possible – not just an utopian dream. A BBC documentary from 2009 outlined how Anuta is a contrasting example to the environmental…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvhCnYvxQQ Hollywood celebrities and respected journalists span the globe to explore the issues of climate change and cover intimate stories of human triumph and tragedy. It’s the biggest story of our time. Hollywood’s brightest stars and today’s most respected journalists explore the issues of climate change and bring you intimate accounts of triumph and tragedy. YEARS…
By Anonymous (IMDB): Imagine a home that heats itself, that provides its own water, hat grows its own food. Imagine that it needs no expensive technology, that it recycles its own waste, that it has its own power source. And now imagine that it can be built anywhere, by anyone, out of the things society throws…
Published on Sep 18, 2013 (IMDB Rating 8.1) This is the story of companies who engineered their products to fail. This film criticizes the way manufacturers deliberately make short lasting products that continually have to be re-bought, increasing their profit. Related Archive: Planned Obsolescence documentary Wikipedia: Planned Obsolescence Ekopedia: The Light Bulb Conspiracy
Published on Nov 18, 2013 Arctic Death Spiral and the Methane Time Bomb