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Created and narrated by Professor Dagomar Degroot of Georgetown University, The Climate Chronicles reveals how climate change shaped humanity's past. With clear, dramatic storytelling, it explores what history can tell us about the future of global warming.In the third episode of our first season, "Becoming Human," Professor Degroot touches on everything from Noah's Flood to nuclear submarines in telling the strange, three-century-long history of the discovery of the Ice Age. Then, he explains why rapid climate changes of remarkable intensity threatened our ancestors in the world of the late Pleistocene Epoch.
For a link to the complete episode and an illustrated transcript, visit TheClimateChronicles.com.
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Created and narrated by Professor Dagomar Degroot of Georgetown University, The Climate Chronicles reveals how climate change shaped humanity's past. With clear, dramatic storytelling, it explores what history can tell us about the future of global warming.
In our third episode, the second of our first season, "Becoming Human," Professor Degroot takes listeners through the dramatic cooling of our planet that began some 45 million years ago. He explains how climate change influenced evolution - including the evolution of our distant ancestors in a drying Africa. For a link to the complete episode and an illustrated transcript, visit TheClimateChronicles.com.
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Created and narrated by Professor Dagomar Degroot of Georgetown University, The Climate Chronicles reveals how climate change shaped humanity's past. With clear, dramatic storytelling, it explores what history can tell us about the future of global warming.
In our second episode, the first of our first season, "Becoming Human," Professor Degroot introduces the far-fetched possibility that humanity might not be the first intelligent species to overheat the Earth. By investigating this idea, Degroot explains how scientists piece together the deep history of climate change on Earth.
For a link to the complete episode and an illustrated transcript, visit TheClimateChronicles.com.
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Human-caused global warming has only heated the planet for about a century. But climate change has always affected humanity. With clear, dramatic storytelling, The Climate Chronicles tells the remarkable story of how climate change influenced our past - and how it may imperil our future.
In our introductory episode, Professor Degroot uses one of the great adventure stories of the seventeenth century - the tale of fourteen desperate men deserted on two tiny Arctic islands - to identify key themes in the history of climate change.For a link to the complete episode and an illustrated transcript, visit TheClimateChronicles.com.
