Climate Change

COP 20 Lima. John Nissen & Paul Beckwith speak on the global underestimation of the scale of Methane emissions & its contribution to Global Warming. The IPCC has not included Methane emissions in its current reports. Methane is a vastly more damaging than CO2 & even after decaying for 100 ...

Saleem Huq speaks about the lack of political will by Governments to take action on Climate Change mitigation measures.

At this COP 20 Presentation on Arctic Methane Emissions and the global warming effects on Earth, by Mr Stuart Scott of UPFSI (United Planet Faith & Science Iniative), he introduces the subject matter with reference to a New York Times article dated Nov. 30 2014, headlined : ‘Optimism faces grave ...

This video sees Kaisa Kosonen talking about the gradual phasing out of fossil fuels. She talks about the IPCC report that if the planet reaches 2degree globally then it will have devastating effects on the weather. 1.5 degrees she says is a much more reasonable goal and says that IPCC ...

In the early 1970s human-induced climate change was still a matter for the academy. A link between climate change and the burning of fossil fuels had been mooted but debate would not move into the political sphere for more than a decade. Gandhi used her platform to express the inextricable ...

Interview with Professor Peter Wadhams, leading Arctic scientist and Prof. of Ocean Physics at Cambridge University, with Judy Sole of Mother Channel. In 40 years, since 1970, of sea ice research and pole oceanography, Prof. Wadhams has observed and measured changes in arctic and antarctic ice, which have and are ...

The University of Earth: Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Dr Georg Kaser – Mountain Glaciers This video sees Pam Pearson and Dr Georg Kaser about glaciers and their slow decline over many years. It is a sad truth about climate change and how the mountain glaciers are melting. ...

The University of Earth: Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Dr. Susan Natali: The main point she speaks about is that greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost are currently not included in most global climate models. These emissions from thawing permafrost are going to amplify climate changes and many ...

The University of Earth: Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Dr Dirk Notz tells us how the Arctic sea ice from 1979, to 2012 has shrunk by 50%. The thickness has also shrunk by 50%. If you half the thickness and area, it means that we have lost about 3 ...

The University of Earth presents the Urgent Action Series: COP21 and CMP11, Paris 2015: Coastal Ecosystems (Mangrove Swamps in Philippines) and their role in climate change mitigation and alleviating poverty. This video we hear about how the natural infrastructure of the Philippines is being damaged and lost. The central part ...