A collage focused on carbon and methane and the planets environment. Not a feel-good program.
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The program begins with several perspectives concerning petroleum and then about midway through concentrates on methane clathrates and the March 2010 findings that they are in deed being released off the Siberian coast. This is not a happy event so some satirical music is included. The later part of the show is somewhat dense with scientific information concerning these recent findings (though easily understandable by the layman). Gee, this program is not meant as pure entertainment!
Commentary by: Out-takes from the Australian Broadcasting Co. documentary Crude - the Incredible Journey Methane Clathrate Releases â Prof Martin Kennedy lecture, UC, Riverside (circa 2010) About Methane Releases â Dan Miller from A Real Inconvenient Truth (circa 2009) from FORTA tv Siberian Sea methane Releases - Digitalized audio from March 3, 2010 UAF, Fairbanks news release concerning research performed by a team led by Natalia Shakhova.
Music (complete or excerpts): A Song for Ecology - Old Warb - found at archive.org Global Warming Is Coming â unknown (via KMUD podcast) When the North Pole Starts to Melt - Captain Sea Level
FX or short supportive segments: Climate Change - Sydney Theatre Co â from kr__11_nothing_is_well â found at radio4all.org Humpback whale calls (FX) sorry, couldnât find sperm whale audio
URLs of note: http://www.grinningplanet.com/mp3-news/index.htm http://fora.tv/ http://www.uaf.edu/news/a_news/20100303192545.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_methane_release http://www.theoildrum.com/
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