Jeff Skoll: Making movies that make change
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http://www.ted.com Film producer Jeff Skoll (An Inconvenient Truth) talks about his film company, Participant Productions, and the people who've inspired him to do good. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their... Read more
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- -: Jeff Skoll: Making movies that make change
August 23, 2007 (over 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Film producer Jeff Skoll (An Inconvenient Truth) talks about his film company, Participant Productions, and the people who've inspired him to do good. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinke...
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- -: Al Gore Talks With Charlie Rose
May 29, 2007 (almost 17 years ago)Former Vice President Al Gore discusses why he would run for President.
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- -: The Threat of Abrupt Climate Change - Peter Schwartz
December 13, 2006 (over 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=477 Futurist author and Global Business Network co-founder Peter Schwartz discusses global warming, arguing that the most likely scenario is also the most dangerous - an abrupt climate change over a period of a few decades. ----- The Long...
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- -: The Science and Politics of Climate Change
December 3, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/10/28/Science_and_Politics_of_Climate_Change Climatologist Mike Hulme examines frequent misconceptions about the science and politics of global climate change. ----- "The Science and Politics of Climate Change" at the 2007 Battle of Ideas conference hoste...
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- -: Vaclav Klaus - Environmentalism: A Threat to Freedom?
February 14, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/03/09/Vaclav_Klaus_Environmentalism_in_Europe President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus criticizes modern environmentalist movements for advocating what he views as threats to individual freedom. ----- "Facing a Challenge of the Current Era: Environmen...
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- -: Are Humans to Blame for Global Warming?
September 11, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/27/California_Cool_Low_Carbon_Economy_Panel Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and Mary Nichols, Chair of the California Air Resources Board, dismiss skeptics' claims that humans are not contributing to ...
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- -: Al Gore: 'Planetary Solution' Needed to Address Climate Crisis
February 7, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/01/30/Rising_to_the_Challenge_of_Copenhagen Addressing the upcoming Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Royal Dutch Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer emphasizes the importance of the big country club, while former Vice President Al Gore stresses the significance ...
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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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- -: Can Earth Heal Itself from Environmental Damage? - Steven Hayward
May 20, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/30/Uncommon_Knowledge_Steven_Hayward Steven Hayward, Senior Fellow at the Pacific Research Institute, argues that the environmental movement fails to take into account the ability of the Earth to recover from environmental disaster. He references the fas...
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- -: Fire and Ice: Permafrost Melt Spews Combustible Methane
August 26, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/08/18/A_REALLY_Inconvenient_Truth_Dan_Miller Environmentalist Dan Miller discusses a possible environmental threat from methane gas contained within melting permafrost. Miller claims the melting permafrost contains twice as much CO2 as Earth's entire atmosp...
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