Black and White Poetics (a dialectic for mother earth) - Episode Five
Channel: planksip®
Date: 2020-12-30

A dialogue of sorts, poetic and to the images of Michael E. Mann's series on Climate Science. 

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Video Clip #1: This video clip should discuss the ocean and land carbon syncs that have been absorbing some of the carbon that we have been putting up into the atmosphere are not necessarily constant, they may saturate, they may no longer be able to take up all that carbon and if that happens then carbon will accumulate even faster in the atmosphere.

Video Clip #2: This video clip should discuss how as we warm the permafrost, as we warm the icy regions of the coastal shelves in the world’s oceans, there is methane that has been trapped there that may be released into the atmosphere. Now methane is an even more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. So if that happens, the warming triggers the release of methane then that will further increase the greenhouse effect. This is as another example of a carbon cycle feedback. Both methane and carbon dioxide mobilize by the warming of the climate system itself adding further to the greenhouse effect and further to the warming.

Video Clip #3: This video clip should discuss how as greenhouse gasses are themselves are changing, our best approach to monitor these changes is through observational data. Scientists use instrumental methods to measure document changes consistent with their expectations of what the response to climate systems ought to look like.

Video Clip #4: This video clip should discuss measuring the changing levels of CO2 and observing and predicting changes in extreme weather events. 

Video Clip #5: This video clip should discuss the measurements of CO2 levels from the atmosphere over decades from the Mauna Loa Observatory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Loa_Solar_Observatory) in Hawaii. They’ve been making measures of CO2 since 1958 and the result is the most famous curve in all of atmospheric science, the Keeling Curve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeling_Curve). That curve shows a steady increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations from about 315 PPM to over 400 PPM today and it’s continuing to climb.

Narrated by:
Daniel Sanderson (Vancouver, BC); https://planksip.me/planksip
Samir Arora (Washington, DC); http://planksip.me/Samir

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