James Burke : "After The Warming", 2/11

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In typical "Connections" style, Mr. Burke takes a look at a possible future world where mankind has taken appropriate steps to forestall the ongoing trend of global warming, presumably primarily due to excess "greenhouse gasses". Burke takes a look at similar global temperature changes that had occurred in the past, of which there are two kinds.

One kind of global climate change happens in regular cycles having to do with alterations in the earth's orbital and also it's tilt with respect to the sun (the so-called minor and major "ice ages"). Burke examines periods in human history and development when these events occurred. Namely how they effected the entire human race, or individual societies.

The other class of changes happen through disruptions in the "temperature regulatory system" of the planet (these are like massive "rivers" deep beneath the oceans). This could happen for instance if a large "wall" of ice, acting as a dam for an even larger fresh-water lake, suddenly breaks releasing a lot of fresh water into a "salty" ocean. It turns out that the driving force behind this "oceanic circulatory system" is, in fact, salt. So if the salinity changes to a large enough degree, then the cycle alters, (or stops alltogether) and this can have dramatic effects on the earth's climate as a whole, and also over a very short period of time (less than a century).

Burke notes that climate change due to humans, being foreseeable, could be forestalled, prevented, or even reversed and presents the show as a news broadcast from the year 2050 wherein his ancestors (ie. our children) had the foresight to be able to prevent much of the catastrophic outcomes that normally result when major climate change occurs on Earth.

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[Klauwsawitzz]

LOOKS LIKE HE WENT OFF THE DEEP END IN HIS OLD AGE, HERE WE ARE IN 2012 AND THESE FILTHY OLD HIPPIES ARE STILL BABLING ABOUT THE PLANKTON DISAPEARING FROM THE OCEANS. NO, WE STILL EAT CATTLE??? YES THE RAIN FOREST IS STILL THERE, EVEN AFTER ALL THE DIRE PREDICTIONS. YES, THE GLOBAL WARMING COMMUNITY WAS CAUGHT AND EXPOSED AS TOTAL FUCKING LIARS JUST RECENTLY IN A LITTLE INCIDENT KNOWN AS "CLIMATE GATE" PROBABLY CENSORED FROM EUROPEAN MEDIA. EUROPEANS ARE LIKE SHEEP FACISTCOMMUNISTSOCIALIST=SHEEP

[oker59]

ten thousand view in 1/11 of this "After the warmin" then 4,389(and I watch this over and over again) views in 2/11; in other words, over half of those who watched 1/11 didn't stick it out to watch 2/11 with the Petra scenes!

[oker59]

@random007nadir

He knew the Hyksos and yet still believed what the Torah says about the Exodus! And of course, he mentions much else; his book has been edited as revealed by Origen who points out things he got from Josephus that are no longer in the books of Josephus!

[random007nadir]

@tehdusto What, the award winning BBC Radiophonic Workshop music or the full orchestral compositions?

[random007nadir]

@oker59 Yes he does. Although 'history' was never a well defined concept (as opposed to telling good stories) there is no better source for classical history than Josephus (for good or ill) - often there is simply no one else who treated events of their time (and events that were known to them in the past) as things worthy of recording (or at least things worthy of recording accurately).

[oker59]

I thought I'd note that Josephus(the Jew who thought the jews were causing their own run-ins with the romans and chose to be a roman hence his name 'Flavius' Josephus; Flavius being an roman emperor title) mentions Petra.

[tehdusto]

6:54 que cheezy SNES music

[mzedong001]

From now on and forth with , I suggest the period that people once called the caveman period and the times before that be termed Earth´s Battlestar Galactica period.....

[Jcolinsol]

God dammit I love James Burke. He's always just got such an interesting, cohesive conception of history, with plenty of hysterical little asides are puns.

This part of the program is particularly interesting as I'm getting into Anarcho-primitivism.

[GordonWolters]

WHen is this going to be available on DVD?