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With only 9 years left to halve global emissions, this episode explores why we should reframe climate change as a climate crisis.  We take a look back at all the COPs of the past, the crucial turning points of the Paris climate agreement, and the 2018 IPCC report in order to understand why COP 26 this year in Glasgow is so important in our attempts to limit temperature rise. This series was an original commission by the incredible Waterbear Network; a new and innovative platform that allows you to watch content about the future of our planet and directly take action! It's totally free to create an account so why not check it out: waterbear.com Some comments about this video: 9 years seems too optimistic. I've read several articles that stated the CO2 budget for the 1.5° goal will have been fully spent by 2027. Realistically, if we look at how little progress we've made all these decades, it seem extremely unlikely that we will be able to curb our CO2 emissions fast enough t...

A leaked draft report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change paints the starkest picture yet of the accelerating danger caused by human use of coal, oil, and gas. It warns of coming unlivable heat waves, widespread hunger and drought, rising sea levels and extinction. To understand the report's warnings, William Brangham turns to atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayoe.

Dangers and solutions to our current climate crisis Engineers and scientists are trying to intervene in the Earth’s geochemical cycles. Because it appears efforts to cut CO2 won’t suffice to avoid irreversible climate change. Some scientists believe that we need to explore radical, and perhaps dangerous, technologies in order to be able to lower the earth’s temperature through geoengineering in the near future.  Science journalist Ingolf Baur explores the feasibility and risks of leading geoengineering projects. His journey takes him to meet scientists in Switzerland, Iceland, the US and Peru. Along the way, he encounters two very different strategies: One is to fish climate-damaging CO2 from the atmosphere and sink it underground or in the deep sea. The other, and this is the far more controversial strategy, seeks to develop techniques that dim sunlight. Global warming is causing entire mountain ridges like the Moosfluh above Switzerland’s Aletsch Glacier to break off. Such dramat...