Natural Climate Solutions
Natural climate solutions need to stand for roughly 20% of the solution to the climate crisis. Geologist, Alasdair Skelton, explains that we can divide Natural Climate Solutions into three categories: …
Course: Taking on the Climate Crisis with Social Change
Emissions Reductions
Of the three solutions to the climate crisis, emissions reduction is by far the most important. Geologist, Alasdair Skelton, examines five categories for emissions reductions: Transport – By taking the …
What is Globalization?
A simplified description of globalization is that we are able to connect to different parts of the world, in many different ways. This is not a bad thing, as it …
Peak Carbon and Decade of Action
Surrounded by water and forest, geologist, Alasdair Skelton explains that the tell-tale signs of climate change are all around us. Every third molecule of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere around …
Where did I go for Breakfast?
The indicators and processes of the Great Acceleration are at the planet scale. How can we relate to this data as individuals? Let’s see where Miriam Huitric went for breakfast. …
Carbon, Phosphorus and Nitrogen Cycles
Geologist, Alasdair Skelton, explains that there are two parts to the carbon cycle. The slow part of the carbon cycle operates on timescales of hundreds of thousands of years. On …
The Great Acceleration
Miriam Huitric, a researcher in sustainability science, introduces the Great Acceleration that makes the relation between our actions and impacts on Earth processes visible. What enabled the Great Acceleration and …
20 million Jumbo Jets
Each year we add four petagrams of carbon to the atmosphere. But what does that mean? Geologist, Alasdair Skelton, compares this weight of carbon to with the weight of 20 …
Territorializing the Future
Oaks were planted in 1831 on Visingsö in Lake Vättern, Sweden. They were intended to be used for shipbuilding. However, 144 years later, when the trees were ready for harvesting, …
Global Warming
Geologist, Alasdair Skelton, explains that measurements made at Stockholm Old Observatory since 1756 show clearly that the Earth is warming. Indeed 2020 was the warmest year on record in Stockholm. …
How Nature and Culture are Entwined
At the old fishing cabin of Charles XI in Stockholm, an oak tree has grown entangled with the building itself. In this video, archaeologist, Christina Fredengren uses its entanglement to …
Negative and Positive Feedbacks
Geologist, Alasdair Skelton, explains the 3 factors which control Earth’s climate on geological timescales (heat from the Sun, the albedo effect and the greenhouse effect) vary gradually, explaining why Earth …
Hyperanthropos and Climate Change
This video was filmed on location at Arlanda Airport, Stockholm, Sweden. Christina Fredengren is sitting in the cockpit of a Boeing 747. She is sitting in a small space, yet …
Controls of Climate on Geological Timescales
This video begins at an quarry in southern Sweden. Here, Alasdair Skelton hacks out pieces of coal from a coal seam. He explains, that coal, oil and gas (fossil fuels) …
Deep Time and Human Time
This video was filmed on location on a rocky shoreline at the southern end of an island called Visingsö which is situated in the middle on one of Sweden’s largest …
