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Tag Archives: climate change

Nov 20 2011
Mark Twain, probably

Climate change episode of Frozen Planet won’t be shown in the U.S.

Climate change episode of Frozen Planet won’t be shown in the U.S.

The Daily Mail:

An episode of the BBC’s Frozen Planet documentary series that looks at climate change has been scrapped in the U.S., where many are hostile to the idea of global warming. British viewers will see all seven episodes of the multi-million-pound nature series throughout the Autumn. But U.S. audiences will not be shown the last episode, which looks at the threat posed by man to the natural world.

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A spokesman for the BBC said it would not make sense to force television networks outside the UK to buy the episode as it features 85-year-old Sir David [Attenborough] talking a lot of the time to camera, and in many parts of the world he is not famous. The broadcaster refused to say which countries had shunned ‘On Thin Ice’. They said it wasn’t included in the main package because it features Sir David ‘in vision’ which would make it hard for other countries to translate into their own language.

Discovery had dropped the full seventh episode due to ‘scheduling issues’, the spokesman added.

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Oct 04 2011
Mark Twain, probably

Whales navigate Northwest Passage for first time in 10,000 years

Whales navigate Northwest Passage for first time in 10,000 years

Emma Woollacott, TG Daily:

Researchers from the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources used satellite tracking to monitor the movements of the whales – and found that, last year, whales from both oceans entered the passage to reach an area called Viscount Melville Sound.

Still think climate change isn’t a big deal? It could seriously change the ecosystems in our oceans.

“[The findings] are perhaps an early sign that other marine organisms have begun exchanges between the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans across the Arctic,” they say.

“Some of these exchanges may be harder to detect than bowhead whales, but the ecological impacts could be more significant should the ice-free Arctic become a dispersion corridor between the two oceans.”

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