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New documentary highlights effects of climate change on world's forests
29/10/2013
A new ground-breaking television programme entitled ‘Tipping Points’ is to highlight the effect of climate disruption on the globe’s natural ecosystems and wildlife.
Starting this month on The Weather Channel, the six-part series follows a group of preeminent scientists as they explore the reasons behind our ever more extreme and unpredictable weather patterns.
The title of the programme refers to the concept that a small change can have major, long-term consequences on a fragile climate system that has already been affected by changeable weather patterns in the past. Once the tipping point has been reached, a chain reaction can occur, meaning that other previously unaffected ecosystems around the globe are now at risk.
Some of the main examples to be featured in the programme include the collapse of the Greenland ice sheet, die-back of the Amazon rainforest, the melting of the Himalayan icecap glaciers, and the shutdown of the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation. The scientists will aim to highlight how climate changes can impact locations such as the Amazon, as well as Australia, Europe and Asia.
Polar explorer and climate journalist, Bernice Notenboom, will host the series, and will be joined by other environmental experts including the professor of climate system dynamics at the University of Exeter, Peter Cox. Together, they will focus on issues such as a mega drought in 2005 which still impacts an area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California today.
The scientists have confirmed that the Amazon stores carbon dioxide in its soils and biomass which is equivalent to around fifteen years of emissions caused by human activities, so in turn a large-scale die-back of the forest could lead to greatly accelerated global warming, the Guardian reported.
Starting this month on The Weather Channel, the six-part series follows a group of preeminent scientists as they explore the reasons behind our ever more extreme and unpredictable weather patterns.
The title of the programme refers to the concept that a small change can have major, long-term consequences on a fragile climate system that has already been affected by changeable weather patterns in the past. Once the tipping point has been reached, a chain reaction can occur, meaning that other previously unaffected ecosystems around the globe are now at risk.
Some of the main examples to be featured in the programme include the collapse of the Greenland ice sheet, die-back of the Amazon rainforest, the melting of the Himalayan icecap glaciers, and the shutdown of the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation. The scientists will aim to highlight how climate changes can impact locations such as the Amazon, as well as Australia, Europe and Asia.
Polar explorer and climate journalist, Bernice Notenboom, will host the series, and will be joined by other environmental experts including the professor of climate system dynamics at the University of Exeter, Peter Cox. Together, they will focus on issues such as a mega drought in 2005 which still impacts an area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California today.
The scientists have confirmed that the Amazon stores carbon dioxide in its soils and biomass which is equivalent to around fifteen years of emissions caused by human activities, so in turn a large-scale die-back of the forest could lead to greatly accelerated global warming, the Guardian reported.
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