BBC Documentary: Are We Changing Planet Earth?
David Attenborough does a 30 year comparison between natural science knowledge now and some of the most significant changes that have occurred since his various previous famous BBC Documentary series of the past which featured: The Planet, Life on Earth and the Natural Sciences.
This recent BBC documentary “Are We Changing Planet Earth?” explores some of the changes that can now be observed, and their most probable causes.
BBC Documentary: Are We Changing Planet Earth? (full version 59 minutes aka (BBC Climate Change Documentary)
The BBC Climate Change Documentary covers:
- Plight of the Polar Bears
- Carbon Dioxide’s role in Climate and Greenhouse Effect
- Man’s involvement in releasing carbon
- Warming of the oceans
- Hurricane creation
- Global Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding
- Arctic sea ice melting
- Ancient atmospheric records trapped in glacier ice
- Carbon Dioxide’s ever increasing role in warming the planet
- How Glacier’s have changed in recent years
- Effects of rising oceans on Island Nations
- Recent changes in the Amazon rainforest
- The Sun’s role in climate changes
- Current Atmospheric Carbon levels compared to the last few 100,000’s of thousands of years
- Changes in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
- Climate Model probability predicted by the MET Office
- Expanding desert regions in China
- Sandstorm in Bejing
- Variations of Climate caused by Natural causes compared to changes caused by human activities
Significant Numbers to Note (Long before the rise of mankind):
How in the past just 4 degrees in temperature (C) cooler made New York City being surrounded by ice 2 km high and 2 degree’s C warmer that current temperatures have flooded the New York City area would be under 5 meters of water.
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