The Climate Warnings Films from the 1980s
Roger Revelle’s 1980 Discussion of CO2 and Climate Risks
Walter Cronkite on Fossil Fuels & Greenhouse Gases (1980)
Warming Warning (1981)
On the evening of Tuesday, 8 December, 1981, the UK’s only commercial TV channel, ITV, broadcast an hour-long documentary called “Warming Warning”.
1982 on CBS Evening News
Michael MacCracken – 1982 Climate Change Presentation
Climate Change Presentation. Published by Climate Institute. 33 min. Albedo / Sea Ice / Arctic Amplification / Feedbacks 54 min. Antarctic sea ice sampling. 55 min., 58.20 min Sea level rise. Antarctica. Mentions Walter Cronkite show about flood, North American Ice sheet, Hudson bay calved away within 100 years. 60 min. climate engineering.
Related: Global Warming What We Knew in 82 https://earthclimate.eu/2013/05/03/global-warming-what-we-knew-in-82/
Climate Crisis The Greenhouse Effect NOVA Film with Al Gore
Al Gore on Climate Change in 1983
The Climate Factor (NOAA – 1984)
Climate Change Documentary (1984)
Carl Sagan & Al Gore Raise Climate Alarm in 1985
CBS: Climate change puts coastal Cities at Risk (1988)
1988 ABC Television Climate Debate
Inside the Greenhouse (1988)
The possibility that rising levels of carbon dioxide could alter the Earth’s temperature balance has been known for more than a century, but it wasn’t until 1987 and the release of a major United Nations report on sustainable development, “Our Common Future”, that global warming was identified as one of the most serious challenges facing humanity.
This explainer on CO2 and the greenhouse effect was produced by ABC TV’s Quantum program the following year. It’s interesting to watch it again today, because even then, people had begun to suspect that something unusual was happening to the world’s climate.
1989 Carl Sagan’s Cosmos
Margaret Thatcher: UN General Assembly Climate Change Speech (1989)
See also https://earthclimate.eu/2014/01/26/margaret-thatcher-on-global-warming/
Australian School Film on the Greenhouse Effect 1980s
Shell Oil’s Stark Climate Change Warning from 1991
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- Climate Change in Films of the 1970s https://earthclimate.eu/2021/10/24/climate-change-in-films-of-the-70s/
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