In a special South American segment, Dirty Weather hits hard in Latin and South America. Leading scientists, government officials, and businessmen will offer their unique perspectives on the climate crisis, and showcase the coordinated responses to move toward solutions.
This hour, we’ll hear the personal reflections from scientists and global business leaders from all walks of life who have recently visited Antarctica, and how the melting landscape is contributing to global sea level rise.
From congestion pricing in London to a clean energy revolution in Scotland, the United Kingdom is demonstrating what success looks like. In this hour, we’ll meet the inspiring leaders from government and industry who are committed to global solutions.
How is climate change impacting the ability of the world to end extreme poverty on the African continent, and what are the implications of not acting? Economic development and sustainability go hand in hand. Yet across Africa, most countries are seriously off-track to meet the Millennium Development Goals, a series of internationally agreed-upon objectives to reduce poverty and child mortality. Join an incredible panel of experts as we look at the linkage between extreme poverty and Dirty Weather.
Across Central Europe and around the world, the climate crisis is giving rise to considerable ingenuity and innovation by governments, markets, and entertainers. In this hour, we’ll explore how drought and heat waves are impacting hundreds of millions of people, and the incredible efforts by some of the world’s leading minds to take on the climate crisis.
Melting glaciers and ice sheets are leading to a dangerous rise in sea levels that threaten to wipe entire nations off the map, resulting in the creation of global coalitions working together to bolster resilience to climate change through innovation and coordination. In Hour 7, we will speak with the innovators and leaders who are working to save entire civilizations.
Just watching the NZ piece and quite frankly, the film was an utter piece of crap. Pure propagandic filth. And I actually believe in anthropogenic climate change.
The panel discussion seems to be a bit better, thank goodness, but still they are extrapolating short-term trends from a statistical series to create fear and and that is unpardonable and a very cheap trick. There ARE long-term trends that are worrying, but cherry-picking data from recent events is bound to back-fire. I can hear it already, the anti GW camp are going to come back in ten years and say, hey look, all that stuff you told us in dirty weather has proven false, global temperature is dropping (in fact, they are doing it already).
Moreover, the panel are implying all our problems are intricately related to global warming (starvation, terrorism, the financial crisis etc.) and that is simply false. There are many other serious issues that need to be addressed that are arguably far more serious than global warming, for example the interdependence of the global economy has made us all prey to one isolated disaster on the other side of the world (tohoku earthquake), the lack of redundancy in the global economy, all in the name of efficiency (which has meant we have no buffer when the system breaks down (food stocks)), the rapacious appetite for raw materials and resource scarcity (e.g. China mining Africa, not that I blame them, the rest of the first world has been doing this for years). Massive fall in biodiversity, habitat loss to agriculture and other human activities, monoculture and susceptibility to resistent pests, overuse of antibiotics and growing resistance of germs to them coupled with population concentrations and international travel, etc. etc. et bloody cetera.
Sure, climate change is a major issue. But it is only one of many and this type of sensationalism and dumbing down of the complexity of it all for a mass audience is political activism at its worst and, IMO, has entered the realm of obscurantism. 24 hours of "reality" my arse. This is just pure politicking.
/rant over.
Thus spake the Bull with a ring in it's nose.
Rant just starting...
I am the Lorax! I speak for the trees, Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please; But I also speak for the brown Barbaloots, Who frolicked and played in their Barbaloot suits, Happily eating Truffula fruits. Now, since you've chopped the trees to the ground There's not enough Truffula fruit to go 'round! And my poor Barbaloots are all feeling the crummies Because they have gas, and no food, in their tummies...
Melting glaciers and ice sheets are leading to a dangerous rise in sea levels that threaten to wipe entire nations off the map, resulting in the creation of global coalitions working together to bolster resilience to climate change through innovation and coordination. In Hour 7, we will speak with the innovators and leaders who are working to save entire civilizations.
Just watching the NZ piece and quite frankly, the film was an utter piece of crap. Pure propagandic filth. And I actually believe (EDIT) anthropogenic climate change is more likely than not.
The panel discussion seems to be a bit better, thank goodness, but still they are extrapolating short-term trends from a statistical series to create fear and and that is unpardonable and a very cheap trick. There ARE long-term trends that are worrying, but cherry-picking data from recent events is bound to back-fire. I can hear it already, the anti GW camp are going to come back in ten years and say, hey look, all that stuff you told us in dirty weather has proven false, global temperature is dropping (in fact, they are doing it already).
Moreover, the panel are implying all our problems are intricately related to global warming (starvation, terrorism, the financial crisis etc.) and that is simply false. There are many other serious issues that need to be addressed that are arguably far more serious than global warming, for example the interdependence of the global economy has made us all prey to one isolated disaster on the other side of the world (tohoku earthquake), the lack of redundancy in the global economy, all in the name of efficiency (which has meant we have no buffer when the system breaks down (food stocks)), the rapacious appetite for raw materials and resource scarcity (e.g. China mining Africa, not that I blame them, the rest of the first world has been doing this for years). Massive fall in biodiversity, habitat loss to agriculture and other human activities, monoculture and susceptibility to resistent pests, overuse of antibiotics and growing resistance of germs to them coupled with population concentrations and international travel, etc. etc. et bloody cetera.
Sure, climate change is a major issue. But it is only one of many and this type of sensationalism and dumbing down of the complexity of it all for a mass audience is political activism at its worst and, IMO, has entered the realm of obscurantism. 24 hours of "reality" my arse. This is just pure politicking.
I've been trying to watch the stream, but it buffers so slowly it keeps stopping and skipping, thus it's making it very hard to follow. ::boobooface:: Maybe this means lots of folks are watching? I hope someone will be putting it on YouTube.
Not seeing that. The video quality (you can select high/med/low/auto) degrades somewhat after a while, but the sound has been perfect for all these hours. Refreshing the browser after a while got the video synced back as well when needed.
I've been trying to watch the stream, but it buffers so slowly it keeps stopping and skipping, thus it's making it very hard to follow. ::boobooface:: Maybe this means lots of folks are watching? I hope someone will be putting it on YouTube.
Melting glaciers and ice sheets are leading to a dangerous rise in sea levels that threaten to wipe entire nations off the map, resulting in the creation of global coalitions working together to bolster resilience to climate change through innovation and coordination. In Hour 7, we will speak with the innovators and leaders who are working to save entire civilizations.
In a special conversation, Climate Reality Chairman and Founder Al Gore speaks with government and business leaders in Hawaii about their activities to combat climate change, while President and CEO Maggie L. Fox leads a discussion with Fabian Costeau, grandson of Jacques Costeau and founder of Plant a Fish, on the health of our world's oceans.
President Olafur Grimsson of Iceland delivers a poignant call to action to protect the melting Arctic. Meanwhile, melting sea ice and thawing permafrost are creating a new problem in Alaska: environmental refugees, whose homes and livelihoods are being lost to climate change. Meet the people who are already seeing and feeling the impacts, and listen to the firsthand accounts of modern explorers.
While Dirty Weather increases in the Western U.S. and Canada, entire forests in Alberta are bulldozed in the pursuit of one of the most harmful forms of Dirty Energy: tar sands. At the same time, California recently passed the most comprehensive climate change legislation in the United States. Watch as organizers say how we can take on Dirty Energy in our own backyards, and business leaders make the case for urgent action on climate change.
I went to the page and I will follow this, it looks interesting.
Last year it was interesting, though it got a bit repetitive as the 24 hours progressed. It had interesting videos from across the world and in between panels discussing various aspects of climate change.
