ClimateTV.tv, the Vancouver-based Internet television station launched earlier this month, is running a "marathon" of global warming coverage for Earth Day today.
Among the offerings, this interview with the Nobel-prize winning University of Victoria climate scientist, Andrew Weaver, who has just filed a lawsuit against The National Post.
Climate TV was founded by Nick Miller, who is an Al Gore Climate Project presenter and businessman. He has developed an online television platform called Xool Labs, which runs ClimateTV, according to Kimberly Thee, who produces shows for the station.
The project also is being helped along by Kevin Grandia, managing editor of DeSmogBlog.com, an online source for global warming-related news that aggressively debunks climate-change deniers.
"ClimateTV is a new way to communicate on this important issue. Video is king online, but the threshold to doing live and interactive HD quality television on the internet has always been prohibitively high. But we're at the point now where we can produce TV-quality shows and communicate direct to our audiences without relying on an overworked and often bias traditional media," Grandia says.
All ClimateTV shows are archived and available on the site.
Today at 3:30 ClimateTV will air the documentary No Impact Man, followed at 5 by a live panel discussion, hosted by Grandia, that will include New York-based Jennifer Prediger, better know as "Ask Umbra" on Grist, the environmental online news magazine, and Tyee editor David Beers.
"Not only is the show run live in high-definition, it is also totally interactive -- meaning that viewers can weigh in with questions and comments throughout the show for us to discuss and respond," says Grandia.
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Sask Resident
1 year ago
Andy Weaver
Andrew Weaver did not win the Nobel-prize. A group he worked with was awarded the Nobel Peace prize, not for the science but for the report's attempt to raise awareness about the threats to peace by climate change. The committee did not say if the science was correct nor even well done. The prize is for peace.
The Canadian Hockey team won the Olympic gold medal, not an individual on the team.
Barrack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace prize in the following year, shortly after he became president and after he announced the troop surge into Afghanistan.
DeSmogBlog
1 year ago
No Nobel Prize?
Andrew Weaver has a Nobel Prize plaque sitting in his office with his name on it. Please don't downplay the IPCC and Weaver's accomplishment.
Dr Alexander
1 year ago
The IPCC are very accomplished
at spreading B.S.
You know. There are so many "Gates" surrounding the IPCC that one cannot be faulted for believing that the IPCC is actually the scientific equivalent of "The National Enquirer".
Besides, Sask Resident has every right to downplay, up-ply, side-play anything that He/She wants.
Frank
1 year ago
Andrew Weaver
He did all he could to get the BC Libs elected last year. Even attacks other professors at the same university when they don't support BC Libs policies.
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OilbertaRedTory
1 year ago
Doctoring Denial
in spite of the many open gates for data and scientific thinking
http://www.begbroke.ox.ac.uk/climate/interface.html
leads enquiring minds to want to know: by what right do these faulty believers play with reality?
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2010/02/leakegate_scandal_gets_bigger.php
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2010/02/leakegate_the_case_for_fraud.php
No denialist demands to read Jonathon Leake's e-mails?
Janie Jones
1 year ago
Litigation is just another refuge for the scoundrel.
Nobel "Peace" prize winner Obama completely zipped his lip on Cast Lead, was drone bombing Pakistan in his first week in office, has redoubled US efforts in the Afghani drug war and has been banging the war drums on Iran ever since.
Former Nobel Peace, er . . . Propaganda prize winners also include Henry Kissinger whose link in ensuring that extra-judicial killings took place on US soil at the behest of the brutal Pinochet dictatorship have recently surfaced:
Kissinger's 1976 Cable Sheds More Light on 'Operation Condor'
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/04/10/kissingers-1976-cable-reopens-controversy-over-operation-condo/
Janie Jones
1 year ago
Liberal mouthpiece defends Site C
"Andrew Weaver, the Canada research chair in atmospheric science, said while farmers may have complaints about losing the land, hydro is one of the lease obtrusive ways to generate power.
Weaver said it fits the definition of a green project.
'Clean energy is historically defined as energy that does not produce greenhouse gases, so hydro power is an example of a non-emitting energy system."'
Source: CTV News
http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100419/bc_site_c_campbell_100419/20100419?hub=BritishColumbia
Dr Alexander
1 year ago
Climate TV
Is clear evidence of the AGW camp having just jumped the shark.
Indeed. The dead horse is being mightily flogged.