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: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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) …
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 …