Videos
Updated: June 20, 2008
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced. If that sounds like a recipe for serious gloom and doom -- think again. From director Davis Guggenheim comes the Sundance Film Festival hit, "An Inconvenient Truth", which offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. That man is former Vice President Al Gore, who, in the wake of defeat in the 2000 election, re-set the course of his life to focus on a last-ditch, all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change.
Global
Warming: What You Need to Know (2006)
Discovery Channel visited global warming tipping points across the planet, talked to the world's leading experts, and examined the latest evidence about global warming for GLOBAL WARMING: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW. Produced by Discovery Channel, the BBC and NBC News Productions, and hosted by award-winning journalist Tom Brokaw, the two-hour special presented the facts and encouraged viewers to determine their own opinion about global warming.
Climate
Chaos: Bush's Climate of Fear (2006)
A US government whistleblower tells Panorama how scientific reports about global warming have been systematically changed and suppressed. And Panorama reporter Hilary Andersson visits some of the first refugees of global warming who come from an island in Arctic Alaska which has been inhabited for 4,000 years ago but is now melting into the sea. This programme was first broadcast on BBC One on Sunday, 4 June 2006 at 2215 BST on BBC One.
The
Truth About Global Warming (2007)
According to the legendary broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough, climate change is the biggest challenge facing the world, "We've reached a tipping point and we must act now to save our planet." Widely considered one of the pioneers of the nature documentary, Sir David Attenborough has written and presented ten major series surveying nearly every aspect of life on Earth. Long criticized by environmentalists for not using his mesmerising platform to push the green message, Attenborough has taken up the battle cry for global warming with this new series. Of the impending crisis, Attenborough warns, "Now... when we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that they are climbing far more steeply than can be accounted for by the natural oscillation of the weather." As he travels the world, Attenborough illustrates how thousands of plant and animal species are already on life support. Hurricanes, floods, droughts, heat waves and forest fires are happening with more regularity and intensity than ever before and in a matter of decades, some coastal communities could be entirely under water. Attenborough argues that it is our collective responsibility to be aware of how our everyday actions impact the earth, "I've been lucky in my lifetime to see some of the greatest spectacles that the natural world has to offer. Surely we have a responsibility to leave for future generations a planet that is healthy-inhabitable by all species."
Exposed:
The Climate of Fear (2007)
There are still questions about why Earth is warming and what man can do about it. In “Exposed: Climate of Fear,” a one-hour special airing May 2, CNN's Glenn Beck examines how the media portray global warming – such as in the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" – and he looks for answers and solutions.
The
Great Global Warming Swindle (2007)
This film by the documentary-maker Martin Durkin presents the arguments of scientists and commentators who don't believe that CO2 produced by human activity is the main cause of climate change. It's a controversial film that was roundly attacked by some scientists and enthusiastically received by others, and the arguments it contains are an important part of the wider debate on the causes of climate change. The film was shortlisted for the Best Documentary award at the 2008 Broadcast Awards. First shown on Channel 4 in March 2007.
The
Great Global Warming Swindle Debate (2007)
Australian Broadcasting Company
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Hosted by Lateline presenter Tony Jones featuring an in-depth interview with writer and director Martin Durkin, followed by an expert panel discussion with a studio audience. Also simulcast on ABC 2 and ABC NewsRadio. It's the most contentious issue of our time - climate change. Tonight, Lateline presenter Tony Jones, hosts the screening of the controversial documentary - The Great Global Warming Swindle - written and directed by Martin Durkin. Immediately following the documentary, Jones will conduct an in-depth interview with Durkin on all the contentious issues raised in the program - including its impact when it premiered in the UK in March on Channel 4; the science on which the documentary is based; the credibility of the scientists interviewed for the film; their satisfaction with the way they were portrayed; and the filmmaker's assertion that capping CO2 emissions would be devastating to developing nations. The interview will include opinions from eminent scientists from Australia and overseas who oppose and support Durkin's documentary.
Scam
of the Great Global Warming Swindle (2007)
An excellent debunking of the scam "documentary": "The Great Global Warming Swindle". This analysis shows how the film's editor and the speakers in the film use every trick in the book to attempt to deceive the viewers of "Swindle" film. For example, the presentation shows how the film used the fact that the Earth's climate has always been changing (correct) to "prove" that humans could not now be causing global warming (incorrect). A detailed rebuttal of the film is here.
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