Why Climate Change Keeps Failing at the Ballot Box
8:05 | More Americans than ever believe climate change is happening. Two in three registered voters say they’re worried about it.
8:05 | More Americans than ever believe climate change is happening. Two in three registered voters say they’re worried about it.
21:39 | The extraction, and the resulting pollution from most energy sources has an immense impact on the environment, and that’s why we’ve got to talk about energy in the context of environmental science.
15:59 | Let’s take a trip to a few biomes and compare what climate looks like around the world.
9:58 | Climate and weather are not the same thing. But climate change is making extreme weather events even more extreme.
12:37 | Climate Fiction comes in all sorts of forms, there’s your Mad Maxes, your Games of Thrones, your Parables of the Sowers, and your WALL-Es.
12:07 | We need to convert more of our diet to plant-based foods, and away from red meat.
10:04 | In the past couple years climate scientists and climate journalists have started talking in scarier and more worst case terms than ever before. Why? And is this a good thing?
9:26 | We’ve all benefited from fossil fuels, and most of the stuff we do in life depends on them. But we also know that we can’t continue down this path if we want to live in a stable world.
10:54 | What can a bunch of circles and squares from a 19th century novella tell us about Climate Change? Its metaphor time!
7:29 | Say you’re looking to buy a car. How do you pick the best car for the planet? There’s already a lot to consider when choosing a new ride, and factoring in climate change makes it even trickier.
8:37 | Talking about climate change is hard. Not talking about climate change is easy.
7:40 | Clothing is something we have to think about every day, but we don’t always think about how our clothes impact the planet.
6:16 | The question is, can we capture all that carbon before earth becomes too hot for us? Can carbon capture on a massive scale really work?
6:36 | Fossil fuel companies are being taken to court just like tobacco companies were, because of what they knew and when. Should they be forced to pay for damages from climate change?
8:27 | Georgetown, TX is a conservative city in the middle of oil and gas country that’s committed to 100% renewable energy.
4:56 | By the end of 2016, the US was home to over 1 million household and commercial solar energy operations, with 4 times as many solar panels installed that year compared to just four years earlier.
6:25 | Decades of environmental threats like warming waters and ocean acidification have pushed reefs to the brink. Can we use science to bring them back?
5:15 | Energy efficiency standards have quietly been saving people mountains of money and helping avoid planet-warming emissions at the same time.
6:04 | Most of the deforestation in the world today happens because people want to put farms where forests are. So, figuring out how to farm with trees instead of just chopping them down could help us fight climate change.
3:59 | About half the world has internet access. That’s 3.6 billion people surfing the web. How much energy is that using? And what is our online world doing to our planet’s climate?
6:11 | As the world figures out how to live with a rapidly changing climate, traditional knowledge from indigenous cultures could help us understand just how things are transforming.
5:56 | Imagine that aliens landed and gifted us a clean, limitless energy source. And instead of killing each other over this technology, we decided to immediately transform the world into a carbon-free society.
3:10 | Thanks to climate change, disease carrying critters are expanding their ranges, and their seasons are getting longer — meaning they have more space and more time to take a bite out of you or me.
5:18 | We are adding extra greenhouse gases, which are causing Earth to heat up and disrupting weather patterns worldwide. So which of these many gases is heating Earth the most?
5:18 | In 2017, storms, floods, and droughts displaced 18 million people from their homes worldwide. And by some estimates, over the next three decades, 200 million people may need to leave their homes to escape the same kind of disasters.
3:39 | It turns out, Hurricane Harvey is the ideal test case to measure how a warming planet and warming oceans, amplify our worst storms.
4:42 | What if we could reflect some of the sun’s energy away before it had a chance to get trapped?
4:34 | The majority of greenhouse gas emissions are now coming from large developing countries, who are looking for cheap energy sources to drive their own economic growth, just like rich countries before them.
4:59 | Beef production emits more greenhouse gases than basically anything else we eat, so let’s look at the scale and impact of our bovine pals – and importantly, what we can actually do to make beef less bad.
5:45 | We have enough fossil fuels to make Earth intolerably hot & wet, so we’ll have to choose to not burn them all.
5:03 | We don’t hear much about the hole in the ozone layer anymore. That’s because we’ve all but fixed it, thanks to consumer choices and a massive international agreement called the Montreal Protocol.
5:47 | Climate change is amplifying extreme weather events like hurricanes, heatwaves and other disasters. What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of how best to prepare for this stuff?
4:11 | The average carbon footprint of a person in the US is 16.5 tons –TONS. So, what can you actually do decrease this number and make a meaningful difference?
5:03 | Weather and climate are very different. But our experience of weather can have a big effect on how we view climate change. Why is that?
5:10 | It impacts the people and places we see everyday, and it will impact some of us more than others.
4:41 | Splitting the atom once promised to be the carbon-free energy source of the future. But today, nuclear power plants are aging and retiring worldwide. What happened?
4:58 | We’ve known about the greenhouse effect for nearly 200 years and about global warming for more than a century, but we’ve had a hard time acting because our brains aren’t a good match for a problem this big.
4:52 | Climate change is affecting lots of living things, including the fluffy, cute ones. What can the adorable pika teach humans about adapting to global warming?