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Topics discussed include, the scientific consensus, weather patterns, sea level rise, adaptation, climate actions, or the greenhouse effect. This 1984 documentary outlines our understanding of global climate change at the time.

There’s weather, and then there’s climate. Weather patterns come and go, but forecasting has become much more accurate through improved meteorological techniques. Climate change is harder to predict. But, as the CBC’s Peter Kent shows in this 1984 documentary, it’s happening.

Carbon dioxide levels in the Earth’s atmosphere have been steadily rising, and by the year 2100 the average global temperature may rise by five degrees Celsius due to the greenhouse effect.

Program: The Journal / CBC

Broadcast Date: Jan. 24, 1984

SPEAKERS

Lester Brown (Environmental analyst)

John Gribbin (Science writer)

Kenneth Hare (Climatologist)

Alan Longhurst (Oceanographer)

Phillip Marolis

Murray Mitchell (Meteorologist)

Michael Oppenheimer (Geologist)

Stephen Seidel

C.S. Wong

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