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Created and narrated by Professor Dagomar Degroot of Georgetown University, The Climate Chronicles reveals how climate change shaped humanity's past. With clear, dramatic storytelling, it explores what history can tell us about the future of global warming.In the fourth episode of our first season, "Becoming Human," Professor Degroot explores how our hominin ancestors learned to cope with, and even exploit, the wildly fluctuating climate of the Pleistocene. He uses the extraordinary migration of a hominin species named Homo erectus to introduce the concept of resilience: a key but contested term that can help us understand our fate on a warming world.
For an episode trailer and a transcript complete with maps, graphs, and other images, visit TheClimateChronicles.com.
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Created and narrated by Professor Dagomar Degroot of Georgetown University, The Climate Chronicles reveals how climate change shaped humanity's past. With clear, dramatic storytelling, it explores what history can tell us about the future of global warming.In the third episode of our first season, "Becoming Human," Professor Degroot touches on everything from Noah's Flood to nuclear submarines in telling the strange, three-century-long history of the discovery of the Ice Age. Then, he explains why rapid climate changes of remarkable intensity threatened our ancestors in the world of the late Pleistocene Epoch.
For an episode trailer and a transcript complete with maps, graphs, and other images, visit TheClimateChronicles.com.
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Created and narrated by Professor Dagomar Degroot of Georgetown University, The Climate Chronicles reveals how climate change shaped humanity's past. With clear, dramatic storytelling, it explores what history can tell us about the future of global warming.
In our third episode, the second of our first season, "Becoming Human," Professor Degroot takes listeners through the dramatic cooling of our planet that began some 45 million years ago. He explains how climate change influenced evolution - including the evolution of our distant ancestors in a drying Africa. For an episode trailer and a transcript complete with maps, graphs, and other images, visit TheClimateChronicles.com.
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Created and narrated by Professor Dagomar Degroot of Georgetown University, The Climate Chronicles reveals how climate change shaped humanity's past. With clear, dramatic storytelling, it explores what history can tell us about the future of global warming.
In our second episode, the first of our first season, "Becoming Human," Professor Degroot introduces the far-fetched possibility that humanity might not be the first intelligent species to overheat the Earth. By investigating this idea, Degroot explains how scientists piece together the deep history of climate change on Earth.
For an episode trailer and a transcript complete with maps, graphs, and other images, visit TheClimateChronicles.com.
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Human-caused global warming has only heated the planet for about a century. But climate change has always affected humanity. With clear, dramatic storytelling, The Climate Chronicles tells the remarkable story of how climate change influenced our past - and how it may imperil our future.
In our introductory episode, Professor Degroot uses one of the great adventure stories of the seventeenth century - the tale of fourteen desperate men deserted on two tiny Arctic islands - to identify key themes in the history of climate change.For an episode trailer and a transcript complete with maps, graphs, and other images, visit TheClimateChronicles.com.
