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Planet in Peril on CNN

October 28, 2007 Graeme Codrington Future Trends, Media tidbits, Sustainability & environmental issues No Comments

I am sitting watching a documentary series on CNN, by Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Cupta, called “Planet in Peril”. See the related website here.

It starts as a list of climate change issues, from melting ice caps to rising sea levels, disappearing lakes to heating islands and malaria. It’s a great litany of the disaster awaiting us, and spans the globe. It would be tough to argue that we are in midst of a climate change crisis.

The question remains, though – are we causing it? Can we change it? What must we do? These questions are dealt with in the show, too.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN sponsored largest scientific report on climate change ever published, was released earlier this year. This is the group that won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Check out their website here. It’s tough to argue with the evidence presented in their reports. But some do, of course, especially those funded by big energy companies that have the most to lose from a global backlash against companies causing climate change.

This is a good documentary. Check it out.

Their website also gives great resources for students.

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