Meltdown: A Global Warming Journey (Great BBC Documentary To Share With Any Deniers You Know) {CC}

[Turborama]

Run time: 09:31 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVVyWwYU3XE   Posted on YouTube: December 13, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: December 14, 2009 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 1807

 
Paul Rose is a modern-day explorer. He's spent many years in Antarctica and the Arctic, organising scientific expeditions. Now he sees evidence that the polar regions are in danger from climate change. So he decides to try and find out the truth about global warming: what's really going on with our climate, and what's it going to mean for the future.

Despite widespread scientific acceptance of the global warming theory, it remains a highly contentious subject. This program studies divergent points of view contributing to the global warming debate, untangling a morass of political and scientific concerns and providing a wealth of historical background on the issue. Is the greenhouse effect as dangerous as theorized, or is that simply bad science? What effect on human life and the world economy can be expected in the coming years? Will the global community ever agree on a concerted plan of action? These and other questions shed light on the dominant environmental issue of our time. A BBCW Production.

Parts 1 to 6 can be seen here in HQ: http://www.youtube.com/user/VforVendetta200#p/c/1ACA685C1E8E8010/0/PvUYFVNoUes

The whole documentary can be watched in full on this funky Japanese YouTube type site (lower quality but with English subtitles): http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNzQwOTE1MDQ=.html

All 6 parts have been embedded in one place here, too: http://climateofourfuture.org/meltdown-a-global-warming-journey-by-paul-rose/

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[Laura902]

1. Very informative

I didn't realize that the warming period in the bronze age was that much cooler than our own today. Everyone should watch this video.:D

[bertman]

2. Excellent video, Turborama. The date on the video aid Nov '08. Is there a followup

that has come out since they put out the call for individuals to download the program?

Rec.

[Turborama]

3. Very good question, I should have added this to the OP...

This BBC website has the results of their experiment, I didn't know until seeing the intro that it actually started in 2006 and finished in August this year: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/climateexperiment/

The Climate Prediction website has aggregated news stories regarding the results of the BBC experiment http://climateprediction.net/search/node/bbc">here.

The main experiment is ongoing. Here's some of the latest details from http://climateprediction.net/">climateprediction.net's hompeage (there's also a link there that takes you to the download site if you'd like to install the program).

Experiment status

Summary

Model Years 49,366,998
Active Hosts 55,515

Complete Model Simulations

HadSM3 402,709
HadAM3 32,253
HadCM3 23,785
Sulphur Cycle 14,993
Spinup 61
HadSM3MH 47,053
HadAM3P 376,830
Last Updated 13-Dec-2009 05:59:33

As you can see on this map, there are thousands of participants all over the world.

[ihavenobias]

4. Kick (too late to rec). n/t