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Global Warming: The Signs and the Science


Wednesday, November 2, 10:00pm
CHANNEL 13 (KERA) PBS

Alanis Morissette hosts this examination of reasons why “it's not your grandfather's climate anymore,” as meteorologist Kenneth Trenbarth puts it.

This documentary profiles people who are living with the grave consequences of a changing climate, as well as the individuals, communities and scientists inventing new approaches to safeguard our children's future. Filmed across the U.S., Asia and South America, this program brings the reality of climate change to life and offers viewers a variety of ways to make a difference in their own communities.


Has anybody see this? It was very good and very up to date covering events thru Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, as well as the extreme dry weather of the Desert Southwest. Alanis M. was pretty good as a host and narrator for this Documentary. I highly recommend this show to everyone if you get a PBS station in your area.

http://www.pbs.org

The Desert SW gets extremely dry weather for about 10 years at 20 year intervals all of the time. In fact, if I could find the articles I could show you where I was quoted in the local newspaper during the early to mid 1990's as saying that I was expecting a Western US Drought soon. These comments were based upon the fact that Dendrochronology studies show that the Plains and Western US have had Droughts of varying intensities at 20 year intervals as far back as they can go with tree rings. There's nothing to suggest that the current one is any worse than some of the bad ones from back in the times of the Pre Columbian civilizations in the SW which had to abandon their dwellings in NM and AZ due to Drought. There is also nothing to suggest that the current uptick in ATL hurricane numbers and intensities is due to anything other than the known multidecadal oscillation in the Atlantic. If GW WAS affecting storm intensities and numbers then we should be seeing an increase Globally but we are not. Global numbers have not changed much and intensities of Tropical Cyclones in the NIO and EPAC have been LOWER than usual in recent years.

Steve

I saw this program and it was pretty well put together. It condensed a lot of things into something the average viewer could understand but still kept the science good, with interviews with real scientists who are out there doing research on it, not Beltway Pundits.

I highly recommend it.