Apple users running MacOSX 10.4 or later must install Microsoft's Silverlight software in order to view the streaming videos. Once installed, restart your browser before viewing. Silverlight 4.0 intel (14MB) | Silverlight 1.0 ppc (5MB) WATCH AND LISTEN shorter Stefan Rahmstorf‒A Scientist's Mind, and an Artist's Eye Peter Sinclair, Yale Climate Connections An eloquent short film about this respected ocean and climate scientist and how he sees the relationship between his scientific work and his passion for photography. He says, "Science is about the rational mind, the dispassionate and the objective, whereas, photography to me is about the passionate and the subjective, and I couldn't feel like a whole person if I was only developing the entirely rational part of myself." (September 2015) The Beauty in our Melting World Dish A short video (2014) about the large-scale pastel paintings of ice and water by artist Zaria Forman, done in the context of climate change. More images on her own website. Also see Brian Kahn's (April 2017) Climate Central portrait of this artist and her work. (September 2014) EveryDayClimateChange Housed on Instagram and with a good presence on Facebook, this collection of donated professional photos documents the actual effects of climate change on people, wildlife, and landscapes around the world. You can read a story by Katherine Bagley of InsideClimate News about this initiative here. (photos) longer Art and Science: Time Lapse Proof of Extreme Ice Loss James Balog Excellent short Ted Talk by photographer James Balog, who speaks here of the importance of combining science with art, and who shows and comments on some of his jaw-dropping time-lapse footage of retreating glaciers in several parts of the world, with vivid illustrations of the scale of these changes. (20 minutes, 2009) Climate Change and the Literary Imagination: Poetry * Linda Bierds, Department of English, University of Washington Linda Bierds, a major poet who has long been interested in science and has become concerned about climate change, speaks here of what inspires her, describes her research methods, and reads several poems. (25 minutes, November 2008) Climate Change and the Literary Imagination: Creative Nonfiction * Marybeth Holleman, Anchorage, Alaska What do writers and artists do when they tackle the topic of climate change? In this talk and reading, writer Holleman addresses this question by focusing on what's happening to polar bears as the Far North warms: the facts, yes, but also the way their stories make us feel and challenge the ways we make sense of our world. (25 minutes, November 2008) READ books Facing the Change: Personal Encounters with Global Warming Steven Pavlos Holmes, editor, Torrey House Press 2013, 161pp This thought- and emotion-provoking collection offers poems and personal essays about climate change by 38 writers: their experiences, feelings, and attempts to make meaning of the changes we're facing. As the editor notes, these pieces are not about scientific or political debates but about "human stories" and "poetic imagination"; reading them is a little like having a series of intimate (and sometimes uncomfortable) conversations.   Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril Kathleen Dean Moore & Michael P. Nelson, editors. Trinity University Press, 2010, 464 pp. This compelling collection offers some 80 short essays by theologians, religious leaders, philosophers, naturalists, scientists, elected officials, business leaders, activists, and writers, each addressing the critical question, "Do we have a moral obligation to future generations, to leave them a world as rich in life and possibility as the world we inherited?" Making a wide range of ethical arguments, in voices from many standpoints and many places, including all the continents except Antarctica, these thinkers all answer yes, explain why they believe this, and suggest steps we can take‒in words that are eloquent, pointed, clear, and often beautiful. Click here for more information on the book.   articles & essays Raising My Child in a Doomed World Roy Scranton, New York Times, July 2018 If you are convinced that we are heading for major trouble with climate change, how can you think about having and raising a child? This powerful writer of personal essays faces this tough question with clarity, compassion, and eloquence. "Our Melting, Shifting, Liquid World"; Celebrities Read Poems on Climate Change The Guardian, November 2015 It is hard to find climate-change poetry online, but this is a good starting collection of 21 poems on this general subject, some more obviously linked than others, all read by actors. Curated by the poet laureate of the U.K., Carol Ann Duffy. Amazing Art Makes Climate Change Conceivable World Science Festival, 2015 A small but good selection of art projects dealing with climate change, with links to the artists' own websites. Our Polar Regions Are Simply 'Melting Away,' and It's a Beautiful Disaster Interview by James Gerken of Camille Seaman, Huffington Post, January 2015 A sampling of the gripping images from photographer Camille Seaman's book Melting Away: A Ten-Year Journey through our Endangered Polar Regions, along with a brief interview with the artist. Climate Change Has Created a New Literary Genre Daniel Bloom, Washington Post, July 2014 A good quick introduction to climate-change fiction‒cli-fi‒with some titles for getting started. For a brief but provocative caution, see George Marshall's brief note, "Climate Fiction Will Reinforce Existing Views." Taking the World By Storm? Weather Inspired Music Edward Ortiz, San Francisco Classical Voice, July 2013 Weather and climate (and wildfires, melting ice, hurricanes, heat, cold, politics): what do they have to do with musical composition and performance? This article explores this interesting question, partly through a study done by two musical scientists of historical links between weather and classical music and partly through several contemporary composers concerned with climate change, including Brett Dean and John Luther Adams. Scenes from a Melting Planet: On the Climate Change Novel Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker blog, July 2013 Good short piece about the current state of novels and short fiction that take climate change seriously, with this telling line: "Today, novels that would once have been called science fiction can be read as social realism." Ideas for what to read, plus a call to fiction writers. websites Arctic Series Photographs Subhankar Banerjee, 2000- This photographer has worked in the arctic for over a decade now, capturing images and writing about the effects of climate change and other stresses on animals and people. The images are very strong, as is much of the writing. His website offers samples. His first book, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land (2003), is excellent. World View of Global Warming Gary Braasch This accomplished photographer/journalist has given his attention to climate change for quite a while now, and his archive of photos and commentary is well worth studying. In 2016, he died photographing the bleaching event on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Change as Art A compilation of "artists, art organizations, and art works that address social and environmental issues by making measureable change." Not just about climate change, but many of the pieces represented here do deal with this topic. Artists and Climate Change A comprehensive collection of annotated links to arts groups that address climate change. The related blog features strong artistic responses (of many types) that help translate scientific facts into human emotions and food for reflection. It is "both a study of what is being done, and a resource for anyone interested in the subject." ClimateChangeEducation.org: Visual Arts An extensive and very good collection of links to visual arts dealing with "climate change and global warming solutions," including artists, galleries, organizations, exhibits, books, and contests. Usefully divided into categories such as sculpture, painting, photography, fashion, graphic arts, and so on. The larger site of which this is a part focuses on K-12 education on climate change and offers additional useful links to such things as movies, television, and museums. Extreme Ice Survey and Chasing Ice (film) In his Extreme Ice Survey, photographer James Balog is creating a stunning array of still, time-lapse, and video images of glaciers around the world. Enacting the motto "Seeing is Believing," Balog and his team invite visitors to the project's excellent website to see for themselves both what is happening to glaciers today and what kinds of beauty they give to our world. This work brings together the powers of art and of science to illuminate our situation and urge action. The award-winning film about Balog and this project, directed by Jeff Orlowski, is very powerful. Lasting about 75 minutes, it is now available on iTunes and Netflix and the DVD costs just $20. Cape Farewell Project Led by artist David Buckland, this London-based project sponsors creative cultural responses to climate change, taking visual artists, writers, and young people on expeditions to the arctic and creating art exhibitions and performances. In their words: "Using creativity to innovate, we engage artists for their ability to evolve and amplify a creative language, communicating on a human scale the urgency of the global climate challenge." Their website offers expedition blogs, images, and more. TEACH resources Teaching Climate Change in Language & Literature Classes SueEllen Campbell, Colorado State University English Dept. and Changing Climates @ CSU, Summer 2015 Here are some of the materials from workshops held at two meetings: WLA, the Western Literature Association (fall 2014) and ASLE, the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (summer 2015), including the workshop leader's talking slides (without images for quicker downloading), some useful scientific graphs and maps, a short list of resources that might be especially useful in such courses, one sample handout on what we can do, and‒NOT LEAST!‒selections from the participants' contributions to the ASLE workshop. Writing Arguments: Spaceship Earth assignment Tom Conway, Colorado State University For an advanced composition class focused on argumentation, Conway asks students to imagine, research, and argue for some specific element of a spaceship designed to take a city-sized group into space for 150 years with sustainability and flourishing in mind, then think about how their plans could work on our actual planet.