Two good docs
If you can view there’s two good coming up this week and you can watch the first one online if you aren’t able to get that channel.
In the past few years, a hurricane has engulfed the debate about global warming. This crucial scientific issue has become a rhetorical firestorm with science pitted against spin and inflammatory words on both sides. Bob McKeown investigates why a debate that some say could determine the very future of our planet has become a partisan battleground. The Denial Machine follows a small but powerful group of scientists who argue, among other claims, that may be a good thing and it investigates their links to the oil and coal industries.
Watch this story online.
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/denialmachine/index.html
(Saturday September 15 at 10pm ET/PT on CBC Newsworld)
Today, if the rest of the world consumed at the rate Canadians do, we’d require five planets in order to sustain ourselves. So harnessing renewable sources of energy is as important as conserving energy through design, as Bill Lishman documents his journey around the globe in search of earth’s renewable energy.
http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/earthenergy/index.html
(this one will be available online in one or two weeks at http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/)
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