Enjoy a festival variety collection featuring a selection of films that have either open- or closed-captions. Want to see more captioned films? Look for the (CC) or (OC) on the Collections Overview PDF or use the filter "Captioned Films" on the Film Guide. Enjoy!
Narrated by Richard Gere, Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops is a series of five short films, featuring twelve leading climate scientists, that explores how human-caused emissions are triggering nature’s own warming loops. Permafrost, an icy expanse of frozen ground covering one-quarter of the Northern Hemisphere, is thawing. As it does, microscopic animals are waking up and feeding on the previously frozen carbon stored in plant and animal remains, releasing heat-trapping gases as a byproduct. These gases warm the atmosphere further, melting more permafrost in a dangerous feedback loop. With permafrost containing twice as much carbon as the atmosphere, its thaw could release 150 billion tons of carbon by the end of the century.
- Year2021
- Runtime11 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Spanish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorSusan Gray
Enjoy a festival variety collection featuring a selection of films that have either open- or closed-captions. Want to see more captioned films? Look for the (CC) or (OC) on the Collections Overview PDF or use the filter "Captioned Films" on the Film Guide. Enjoy!
Narrated by Richard Gere, Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops is a series of five short films, featuring twelve leading climate scientists, that explores how human-caused emissions are triggering nature’s own warming loops. Permafrost, an icy expanse of frozen ground covering one-quarter of the Northern Hemisphere, is thawing. As it does, microscopic animals are waking up and feeding on the previously frozen carbon stored in plant and animal remains, releasing heat-trapping gases as a byproduct. These gases warm the atmosphere further, melting more permafrost in a dangerous feedback loop. With permafrost containing twice as much carbon as the atmosphere, its thaw could release 150 billion tons of carbon by the end of the century.
- Year2021
- Runtime11 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Spanish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorSusan Gray