Original Air Date: June 27, 2007
Most scientists say the debate over global warming is over. They say it’s happening, and humans are speeding it up. In North Carolina, leaders in both government and business seem to be taking the threat seriously and are planning for the future. Just how could global warming affect our state? That’s the subject of this WRAL Focal Point documentary called “Hot Topic.”
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Art Howard was an award winning documentary photographer for WRAL-TV who now has his own production company called ARTWORK in Raleigh, N.C. He spent a month aboard a Russian icebreaker in the Arctic documenting the work of scientists studying climate change for the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. He produced this video from the footage, which is called “83 North.”
Online Resources
- North Carolina Department of Transportation's Office of Beautification
- Keep America Beautiful
- Adopt-a-Highway
- North Carolina Big Sweep
- Environment North Carolina
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You a scientist? I'll believe all the science if you don't mind.
And yes, the world is older than 6,000 years.
June 29, 2007 3:24 p.m.
First, global warming exists. However, it has been around alot longer than the automobile or the factory. This wave of global warming has gone on for a couple hundred years now and in the last 50 it has actually slowed! The supporing data is out there and easy to find. Global warming, and cooling, is a process that has gone on for longer than man has been on the earth. Evidence is the forests and camps found under the ice as it melts. Makes you wonder how trees can grow and man made objects can be found if we are just causing this to happen now.
Second, why are you not told about this? Tax dollars. If global warming can be pushed as a real problem to the American people there is yet another big reason to impose new taxes and exert more control into our everyday lives.
Power, money and control.
It's that simple! Don't believe global warming as mass media describes!
June 28, 2007 12:02 p.m.
June 27, 2007 8:00 p.m.
June 27, 2007 7:36 p.m.