Arctic Methane Emergency: Economy vs. Ecology

Published on Dec 14, 2014

This is the third press briefing of the Arctic Methane Emergency Group(AMEG) held on Dec. 6, 2014 at the 20th annual Conference of the Parties (COP 20) for the United Nation's Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Lima, Peru.

AMEG discusses the catastrophic dangers that the warming of the Arctic region poses to modern civilization and life on Earth. The fate of the human race hangs in the balance.

Abibimman Foundation: United Planet Faith & Science Initiative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YZNg...

1ST PRESS BRIEFING:
COP20: Global Arctic Methane Emergency #1 (12-4-2014 in Lima Peru)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2w0q...

2ND PRESS BRIEFING:
COP20: Global Arctic Methane Emergency #2 (12-5-2014 in Lima Peru)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQkNx...

3RD PRESS BRIEFING:
COP20: Global Arctic Methane Emergency #3 (12-6-2014 in Lima Peru)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATIm8...

Rethinking Economics in the Age of Climate Change #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLsFa...

Rethinking Economics in the Age of Climate Change #2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCkCV...

The Acrtic Methane Monster--A Presentation by Jennifer Hynes

Published on Aug 5, 2014

Researcher Jennifer Hynes offers a riveting, comprehensive, scientific Power Point presentation about the Arctic atmospheric "methane global warming veil", a spiral of runaway global warming.

Take a Quiz on Your Knowledge of the Odd Effects of Climate Change

Think you learned a lot already? See how accurate you are in your estimations. Go to the Christian Science Monitor's quiz to test your knowledge of climate change.

Carbon--From Green World Rising

This is a somewhat controversial take on seeking a solution to fossil fuel emissions. Watch this and see what you think.

Will Steffen: The Great Challenges of the 21st Century

Time History of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, by CIRES & NOAA

Home the Movie

Former actor Yann Arthus-Bertrand directed this visually astonishing portrait of the Earth as seen from mesmerizing aerial views. Home is not the first documentary to survey our planet from the air, but Arthus-Bertrand brilliantly and dreamily captures the miraculous linkage within delicate eco-systems. For viewers whose eyes glaze over at descriptions of the way Earth recycles energy and matter, Home underscores the beautiful and awesome reality of that complex process. Narrated by actress Glenn Close (in this English-language version), Home begins by exploring and clarifying the natural history of water, sunlight, and the role simple life-forms such as algae played (and still play) in making the planet hospitable to more evolved, living things. As the film moves along, it also has a way of rebooting one's lazy assumptions about familiar phenomena. The Grand Canyon, for example, might be a fantastic sight to behold, but it's also a collection of billions and billions of shells compressed under Earth's oceans long ago. The carbon trapped in the Grand Canyon was drained from the atmosphere, helping--once again--oxygen-dependent life to develop.

Similarly, plant life, Home tells us, broke up the water molecule and released oxygen into the atmosphere. Everything is linked, everything is part of a grand machine--the film makes this clear in scores of ways, and not just by telling us. Arthus-Bertrand reveals the intricate, breathtaking designs and patterns of glaciers feeding rivers, of animals feeding on plant life so more plant life can grow, of Australia's great Coral Reef's role in keeping the ocean in eco-balance. Of course, a big part of the story is the impact short-sighted humans have on these systems: the way we overfish, or drain deserts of scarce fossil water, or turn non-farming lands into perverse engines for agriculture. There is much to be alarmed at watching Home, but there is much to move one as well. --Tom Keogh