Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (46 min., 26 sec.)) : sound, color |
Series |
Climate Change By Numbers |
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Climate Change By Numbers
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Contents |
Introduction: Climate Change By Numbers: Part 2 (3:22) -- The Cause is Humans (2:57) -- Isolating Factors (2:12) -- Accounting for Natural Variations (3:05) -- Carbon Dioxide's Effect on Temperature Change (2:29) -- Invention of Weather Grid-Squares (2:31) -- Meteorologist Super Computer (1:34) -- Mount Pinatubo Erupts (3:16) -- Human Carbon Fingerprint (3:08) -- Carbon Dioxide Budget (2:52) -- Predicting the Future (2:50) -- The Monte Carlo Method (4:25) -- Predicting Earth's Climate (1:59) -- Extreme Value Theory (3:26) -- Frequent Extreme Weather (5:20) -- Credits: Climate Change By Numbers: Part 2 (0:37) |
Summary |
Earth's climate is changing - understanding how has become one of the biggest scientific projects ever undertaken. But the epic scale of this study has made it remote and difficult to understand; we're overwhelmed by a blizzard of information and no-one knows which bits to believe. A timely and intriguing take on an urgent issue, Climate Change by Numbers reveals why scientists are so certain they are right, where we have reached the limits of our knowledge, and what uncertainty really means |
Notes |
Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on October 01, 2015 |
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Title from distributor's description (Films Media Group, February 13 2016) |
Performer |
Presenters: Dr. Hannah Fry, Professor Norman Fenton, Professor David Spiegelhalter |
Notes |
6-10 |
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Closed-captioned |
Subject |
Climatic changes
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Climate Change
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climate change.
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Climatic changes.
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Genre/Form |
Educational films.
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Internet videos.
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Educational films.
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Films éducatifs.
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Form |
Streaming video
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Author |
BBC Worldwide Ltd., production company.
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Films Media Group, film distributor.
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