Last
Hours
"Last Hours" is the first in a series of short films that explore the perils of climate change and the solutions to avert climate disaster. Each subsequent film will highlight fact-based challenges facing the human race, and offer solutions to ameliorate these crises. The initial short film series will culminate in a feature film to be presented prior to COP21, the 2015 UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris
An asset for the climate change movement, "Last Hours" will be disseminated globally to awaken modern culture worldwide about the various dangers associated with climate change.
"Last Hours" is the first in a series of short films that explore the perils of climate change and the solutions to avert climate disaster. Each subsequent film will highlight fact-based challenges facing the human race, and offer solutions to ameliorate these crises. The initial short film series will culminate in a feature film to be presented prior to COP21, the 2015 UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris
An asset for the climate change movement, "Last Hours" will be disseminated globally to awaken modern culture worldwide about the various dangers associated with climate change.
"Last
Hours" describes a science-based climate scenario where a
tipping point to runaway climate change is triggered by massive
releases of frozen methane. Methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, has
already started to percolate into the open seas and atmosphere from
methane hydrate deposits beneath melting arctic ice, from the warming
northern-hemisphere tundra, and from worldwide continental-shelf
undersea methane clathrate pools.
Burning
fossil fuels release carbon that, principally through greenhouse
effect, heat the atmosphere and the seas. This is happening most
rapidly at the polar extremes, and this heating has already begun the
process of releasing methane. If we do not begin to significantly
curtail the use of carbon-based fossil fuels, this freed methane
threatens to radically accelerate the speed of global warming,
potentially producing a disaster beyond the ability of the human
species to adapt.
This
first video is designed to awaken people to the fact that the earth
has experienced five major extinctions in the deep geologic past --
times when more than half of all life on earth vanished -- and that
we are now entering a sixth extinction. Industrial civilization with
its production of greenhouse gases has the ability to trigger a mass
extinction; in the extreme, it could threaten not just human
civilization, but the very existence of human life on this planet.
The
world community and global citizens urgently need to chart a path
forward that greatly reduces green house gas emissions. To take
action and follow the pathway to solutions to the climate crisis, you
can explore this website and you can also sign-up for future updates.
Thank you.
"Last
Hours" is presented and narrated by Thom Hartmann and directed
by Leila Conners. Executive Producers are George DiCaprio and Earl
Katz. Last Hours is produced by Mathew Schmid of Tree Media
Foundation, and was written by Thom Hartmann, Sam Sacks, and Leila
Conners. Music is composed and performed by Francesco Lupica.
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