![]() ![]() New Scientist said at the time it was “excellently written and directed” by Richard Broad, a current affairs documentary-maker, then better known for films focused on the Middle East conflict. Can anyone remember watching it? /DqT845SCtC On, ITV broadcast this hour-long documentary about climate change called “Warming Warning”. It added: “Scientists are worried that at the present rate the Earth will be 2C warmer by the middle of the next century with disastrous consequences for the polar regions.” In its TV listings on the day the programme aired, the Times described it as “a documentary about the serious effects our polluting of the atmosphere with carbon dioxide will have on the climate”. After it first aired in 1981, Warming Warning went on to be broadcast in the US (in 1990 on PBS), Greece, Japan and Israel, according to FremantleMedia. To put it in context, the documentary was broadcast seven years before Dr James Hansen’s famous “it is already happening now” Senate testimony in 1988, nine years before the first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report was published, and 25 years before Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth was released. Many of themes still resonate strongly today. The clips provide a poignant, historical insight into what scientists knew about climate change almost four decades ago – and how the world was beginning to react in terms of the resulting geopolitical, technological and societal ramifications. Until now.Ĭarbon Brief has tracked down the copyright holder, FremantleMedia Ltd, and persuaded it to release into the public domain a selection of key clips from the documentary. The documentary, which was made by the now-defunct Thames Television, has sat in the archives largely unseen ever since. It was among the earliest occasions – possibly the earliest – anywhere in the world where a major broadcaster aired a documentary dedicated solely to the topic of human-caused climate change. My rating of this 2012 documentary lands on seven out of ten stars.On the evening of Tuesday, 8 December, 1981, the UK’s only commercial TV channel, ITV, broadcast an hour-long documentary called “Warming Warning”. If you have an interest in the sinking of the majestic Titanic and the events surrounding it, then "Titanic's Final Mystery" is without a doubt a documentary well-worth taking the time to watch. Not once was there a feeling of it dragging on pointlessly. Running at 1 hour and 33 minutes, this is a very in-depth documentary, but it didn't feel like a long documentary at all. So that was really a good thing about this 2012 documentary. And let me be the first to say that this was definitely interesting, and the things discovered and brought to attention were really enlightening, not to mention fully and wholly new to me. And it is a documentary that shows a lot of enthusiasm in bringing information to the viewer and does so in a quest for finding answers. This 2012 documentary sheds some very interesting light on the events that transpired and led to the tragedy of 1912. ![]() Now, I have recently been watching a bunch of documentaries on the Titanic, but I must admit that the 2012 titled "Titanic's Final Mystery" (or "Titanic: Case Closed") is actually one of the more enlightening and enjoyable of documentaries I have watched on this tragedy in a long time. Reviewed by paul_haakonsen 7 / 10 This documentary was just spectacular. The two-hour special investigates a century of theories and uncovers astonishing new forensic evidence that proves the most likely theory for the case.-Smithsonian Channel To mark the 100th anniversary of the infamous disaster, Smithsonian Channel will premiere Titanic's Final Mystery. For decades, investigators and amateurs alike have floated theories for why it occurred and who was to blame for the extraordinary loss of life, but no one answer could fully explain what happened. ![]() The sinking of the RMS Titanic remains one of the most enduring and mysterious tragedies of the 20th century. ![]()
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