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Climate change is the long-term shift in the Earth's average temperatures and weather conditions. The world has been warming up quickly over the past 100 years or so. As a result, weather patterns ...
Climate Change Denial Disorder: Climate change denial: Nicol Paone: 2015 The Day After Tomorrow: Climate change: Roland Emmerich and Jeffrey Nachmanoff: 2004 The Day the Earth Stood Still: Humankind's environmental damage to the planet: Scott Derrickson: 2008 Denmark: Pollution: water pollution: 2010 Dreams: Pollution vs. nature: Akira Kurosawa ...
Climate Crisis Film Festival: 2019 Glasgow, worldwide The Climate Crisis Film Festival is an annual film festival with an in-person screening in the UK and a digital festival online. Focusing on global voices and the intersectionality of the climate crisis, it aims to bridge the knowledge-action gap in climate action. ECOFEST: 2011 Craiova: Romania
Climate change has been an occasional topic in fictional cinema. [13] Nicholas Barber opined in BBC Culture that Hollywood films seldom feature climate change mechanisms due to the difficulty of tying the topic to individual characters, and due to fears of alienating audiences; instead, impacts of climate change have been more frequently depicted as a consequence of nuclear or geoengineering ...
The genre frequently includes science fiction and dystopian or utopian themes, imagining the potential futures based on how humanity responds to the impacts of climate change. Climate fiction typically involves anthropogenic climate change and other environmental issues as opposed to weather and disaster more generally.
Ecofiction (also "eco-fiction" or "eco fiction") is the branch of literature that encompasses nature or environment-oriented works of fiction. [1] While this super genre's roots are seen in classic, pastoral, magical realism, animal metamorphoses, science fiction, and other genres, the term ecofiction did not become popular until the 1960s when various movements created the platform for an ...
Started in 2006, the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) was a “high-visibility effort” to address global warming (global climate disruption) by creating a network of colleges and universities that had committed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and accelerate the research and educational efforts of higher education to equip society to re-stabilize ...
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) adopted a statement on Climate Change and Greenhouse Gases in 1998. [13] A new statement, adopted by the society in 2003, revised in 2007, and revised and expanded in 2013, [14] affirms that rising levels of greenhouse gases have caused and will continue to cause the global surface temperature to be warmer: