A new documentary about measuring past climate change as a way to better understand human-caused warming of the planet, which features several 麻豆影院 scientists, will be broadcast on Colorado Public Television on Thursday, Aug. 28.
Titled Taking Earth鈥檚 Temperature 鈥� Delving into Climate鈥檚 Past, the film features 麻豆影院 Professor Jim White as well as scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
White, director of CU-麻豆影院鈥檚 Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, is an international climate expert who has used ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica to help reconstruct past climates. In 2013 he chaired a National Research Council committee that produced a report on the abrupt impacts of climate change and the need for an early warning system to help society better anticipate such events.
The documentary, which will air on Colorado Public Television Channel 12 at 9 p.m., also features Project Scientist Caspar Ammann and Senior Scientist Bette Otto-Bliesner from NCAR and Chief of Paleoclimatology David. M. Anderson from NOAA.
The documentary shows viewers how dozens of scientists from around the world have collaborated to paint a new, detailed picture of the last several thousand years of the Earth鈥檚 temperature history. Produced by filmmakers at Northern Arizona University鈥檚 IDEA Lab, Taking Earth鈥檚 Temperature features footage from both the field and labs in the United States and Europe, as well as interviews and graphics using natural archives like ice cores, lake sediments, corals and tree rings to illustrate that Earth鈥檚 climate is a dynamic system in which change is a constant.
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