TY - ADVS ED - Films For The Humanities & Sciences (Firm) ED - The Open University TI - Are we changing planet earth? T2 - The truth about climate change PY - 2008/// CY - Princeton, N.J. PB - Films for the Humanities & Sciences KW - Climate changes KW - Climatic changes KW - Environmental aspects KW - Global environmental change N1 - Presenter: Sir David Attenborough N2 - This program presented by Sir David Attenborough discusses the thickening of Earth's carbon dioxide envelope and, using climate modeling, confirms that fossil fuels are primarily responsible for a global rise in temparatures going far beyond any normal allowance for cyclical fluctuation. Traveling from the Artic, where the ecosystem is collapsing; to the lowlying islands of the South Pacific, where flooding in now chronic; to the bleaching Great Barrier Reef, the program offers definitive evidence of global warming: retreating glaciers, rising seas, stronger hurricanes, severer droughts, enroaching deserts, and a biosphere that is visibly in decline ER -