- -: Reasons for Optimism on Climate Change?
June 6, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/28/Niall_Ferguson_and_Peter_Schwartz_on_Human_Progress Historian Niall Ferguson debates futurist author Peter Schwartz on reasons to feel optimistic about the issue of global climate change. ----- Niall Ferguson and Peter Schwartz present Historian vs....
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- -: Inside the 1996 Everest Disaster - Ken Kamler
January 9, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Dr. Kenneth Kamler recalls his harrowing experience on a climb towards the summit of Mt. Everest in 1996 when a lethal 2-day storm kicked up. The event, documented by writer Jon Krakauer in his bestselling book Into Thin Air, would lead to the deaths of eight climbers and leave several others --...
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- -: Cooking with Liquid Nitrogen - Ferran Adria and Harold McGee
March 18, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/10/10/Ferran_Adria_A_Day_at_elBulli Chef Ferran Adria, head chef of elBulli, and Harold McGee, author of On Food and Cooking, describe how liquid nitrogen is used in restaurant kitchens to create innovative dishes like alcohol sorbets and frozen pistachio p...
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- -: Is Al Gore Misrepresenting Global Warming? - Patrick Michaels
April 15, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/03/12/Climate_of_Extremes Patrick Michaels argues that, when discussing climate change, "people accept the strangest things without really fact checking." Michaels argues that many of Al Gore's claims and presumptions about global warming are false. ----- ...
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- -: How Does a Warming Arctic Affect Global Climate? - Susan Hassol
April 27, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/03/28/Changing_Arctic_Changing_Planet Susan Joy Hassol, Director of Climate Communication, explains why Arctic climate is changing faster than the rest of the world. Due to global sea level rise, carbon release, reflectivity, she argues that "Arctic climate...
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- -: Melting Trends: Arctic Ice Completely Gone by 2020?
August 31, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/08/18/A_REALLY_Inconvenient_Truth_Dan_Miller Environmentalist Dan Miller discusses images of arctic ice melting trends at the North Pole. He argues that light once reflected off the surface of the melting ice is now being absorbed by water, priming a feedba...
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- -: John Kerry Criticizes Sluggish Response to Climate Change
December 23, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/12/16/Senator_John_Kerry_Weighs_In_on_Climate_Policy_at_COP15 Senator John Kerry argues for sympathy with people in the developing world who suffer from the environmental practices of the industrialized world. "The science has been screaming at us," says Ke...
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- -: How Did Early Humans Survive Climate Change? - Sander van der Leeuw
December 28, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/v/c11292 Archaeologist Sander van der Leeuw says one way ancient humans survived periods of climate instability was to stay below the environment's carrying capacity. The only areas that experienced regular famine, he explains, were those abundant in natural res...
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- -: Around the Americas: Photographing Climate Change in the Arctic
June 9, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/06/01/Around_the_Americas_Expedition_Team Mark Schrader, Captain and Project Director of Around the Americas, retells the challenge of going the "wrong way" (against the wind and against the current) through the Northwest Passage. Flipping through photos th...
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- -: The Oldest Living Thing on Earth? 500,000-Year-Old Bacteria
January 4, 2011 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/11/15/Rachel_Sussman_The_Worlds_Oldest_Living_Organisms Photographer Rachel Sussman presents an image of what is most likely the oldest living thing on planet Earth: a specimen of actinobacteria, found in Siberian permafrost. The bacteria are about 500,000 ...
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