Why Voting Local is the #1 Way You Can Fight Climate Change

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Subject: Biology
Content of the Lesson: Like this video? SUBSCRIBE to Hot Mess! ►► http://bit.ly/hotmess_sub Peril & Promise is a public media initiative from WNET telling human stories of climate change and its solutions. Learn more at: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/peril-and-promise/ If you’re in the United States and you turn on the TV, accidentally open twitter, or start to read a newspaper app, chances are you’ll see a bunch of people talking about the upcoming federal election. But what you might not see much of - coverage of the local elections where you live. Let alone, information about those policy makers’ climate ideas. Which is frustrating because, I’m going to let you in on a little secret now: a lot of climate policy happens at the state and local level. Compared to the federal government, local and state lawmakers are typically more efficient - they get more done in less time. They’re often easier to get in contact with and just physically closer than your federal lawmakers working in DC. Plus, local laws tend to have a lot more direct impact on your life and how your community responds to the climate crisis. For example, a lot of your local tax money probably goes to fund education. Your locally elected school board is in charge of how that funding is used, and they get to decide if your local school district buys electric busses, or adds a climate change section to the curriculum. But why is that? Why is your local government so much better set up for implementing climate solutions than the federal government? Connect with us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/HotMessPBS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hotmesspbs Facebook: http://facebook.com/hotmesspbs Hot Mess T-shirts!: https://store.dftba.com/products/hot-mess-shirt ---------- Host/Writer: Miriam Nielsen Editor in Chief: Joe Hanson, Ph.D Creative Director: David Schulte Executive Producer: Amanda Fox Producer: Stephanie Noone Editor/Animator: Matt Donaldson ----------- Produced by PBS Digital Studios Theme Music: Eric Friend/Optical Audio Music: APM


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How Different Generations Talk About Climate Change | Hot Mess

Teacher or professor: Hot Mess
Subject: Biology
Content of the Lesson: Peril & Promise is a public media initiative from WNET telling human stories of climate change and its solutions. Learn more at: https://www.pbs.org/perilandpromise/ Like this video? SUBSCRIBE to Hot Mess! ►► http://bit.ly/hotmess_sub Over the last few years it feels like young people have taken over the climate movement. They’re out striking, suing national governments, occupying congressional offices, and taking to the streets. And according to polls, they care more, with 70% of young adults saying they worry about global warming compared to 56% of people over 55. But of course - climate action isn’t new - people have been marching, protesting, and demanding change since the 60s and 70s. People who were grandparents today were fighting for the climate when they were young people, and many are still at it today. It made us wonder: What’s changed since the early days of the environmental movement? How are the stakes different today? And what’s the best way to speak up about climate change? Connect with us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/HotMessPBS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hotmesspbs Facebook: http://facebook.com/hotmesspbs Hot Mess T-shirts!: https://store.dftba.com/products/hot-mess-shirt ----------- Host: Joe Hanson, Ph.D Writer: Miriam Nielsen Creative Director: David Schulte Executive Producer: Amanda Fox Producer: Stephanie Noone Editor/Animator: Matt Donaldson ----------- Produced by PBS Digital Studios Theme Music: Eric Friend/Optical Audio Music: APM Climate activists, youth activists, generations, old people, young leaders, sunrise movement, zero hour, jamie margolin, grete thundberg, elders for climate action


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How We Make Energy | Essentials of Environmental Science

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Subject: Biology
Content of the Lesson: Welcome to our new special series about the essentials of environmental science Like this video? SUBSCRIBE to Hot Mess! ►► http://bit.ly/hotmess_sub More info below… When I first took an environmental science class, I didn’t quite get why energy got its own section. Because in a lot of ways, energy feels so detached from the environment. In order to produce and move energy, we dig deep into the ground for fuel, we burn that fuel to create electricity, and we clear trees to make room for power lines. It all seemed in opposition to the environment. And in a lot of ways, it is, most energy production is entirely extractive. The extraction, and the resulting pollution from most energy sources has an immense impact on the environment, and that’s why we’ve got to talk about energy in the context of environmental science. Welcome to our Learning series about the essentials of environmental science. We’ll have more from this series in the following videos, so stay tuned! Connect with us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/HotMessPBS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hotmesspbs Facebook: http://facebook.com/hotmesspbs Hot Mess T-shirts!: https://store.dftba.com/products/hot-mess-shirt ----------- Host: Joe Hanson Writer: Miriam Nielsen Co-Writer: Scott Sowell, Ph.D. http://www.sowellscience.com/ Editor-in-chief: Joe Hanson Creative Director: David Schulte Executive Producer: Amanda Fox Producer: Stephanie Noone Editor/Animator: Sara Roma ----------- Produced by PBS Digital Studios Theme Music: Eric Friend/Optical Audio Music: APM


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The Basics of Climate Science | Essentials of Environmental Science

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Subject: Biology
Content of the Lesson: Welcome to our new special series about the essentials of environmental science Like this video? SUBSCRIBE to Hot Mess! ►► http://bit.ly/hotmess_sub More info below… A series on this channel talking about the environment without focusing on the era-defining change happening to our planet right now wouldn’t make any sense. Climate Change is after all, the hot mess we all find ourselves in. Climate is the long-term, average weather over a particular region. It’s the typical patterns of temperature, precipitation, wind and how those change seasonally throughout the year. But what does that actually mean? Let’s take a trip to a few biomes and compare what climate looks like around the world. We’re going to the tropical rainforest of Brazil, the savanna of Mozambique, the desert in Saudi Arabia, and the tundra of Canada. Welcome to our Learning series about the essentials of environmental science. We’ll have more from this series in the following videos, so stay tuned! Connect with us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/HotMessPBS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hotmesspbs Facebook: http://facebook.com/hotmesspbs Hot Mess T-shirts!: https://store.dftba.com/products/hot-mess-shirt ----------- Host/Writer: Miriam Nielsen Co-Writer: Scott Sowell, Ph.D. http://www.sowellscience.com/ Editor-in-chief: Joe Hanson Creative Director: David Schulte Executive Producer: Amanda Fox Producer: Stephanie Noone Editor/Animator: Sara Roma ----------- Produced by PBS Digital Studios Theme Music: Eric Friend/Optical Audio Music: APM


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The Basics of Climate Science | Essentials of Environmental Science

Teacher or professor: Hot Mess
Subject: Biology
Content of the Lesson: Welcome to our new special series about the essentials of environmental science. Like this video? SUBSCRIBE to Hot Mess! ►► http://bit.ly/hotmess_sub More info below… A series on this channel talking about the environment without focusing on the era-defining change happening to our planet right now wouldn’t make any sense. Climate Change is after all, the hot mess we all find ourselves in. Climate is the long-term, average weather over a particular region. It’s the typical patterns of temperature, precipitation, wind and how those change seasonally throughout the year. But what does that actually mean? Let’s take a trip to a few biomes and compare what climate looks like around the world. We’re going to the tropical rainforest of Brazil, the savanna of Mozambique, the desert in Saudi Arabia, and the tundra of Canada. Welcome to our Learning series about the essentials of environmental science. We’ll have more from this series in the following videos, so stay tuned! Connect with us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/HotMessPBS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hotmesspbs Facebook: http://facebook.com/hotmesspbs Hot Mess T-shirts!: https://store.dftba.com/products/hot-mess-shirt ----------- Host/Writer: Miriam Nielsen Co-Writer: Scott Sowell, Ph.D. http://www.sowellscience.com/ Editor-in-chief: Joe Hanson Creative Director: David Schulte Executive Producer: Amanda Fox Producer: Stephanie Noone Editor/Animator: Sara Roma ----------- Produced by PBS Digital Studios Theme Music: Eric Friend/Optical Audio Music: APM


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The Importance of Soil | Essentials of Environmental Science

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Subject: Biology
Content of the Lesson: Welcome to our new special series about the essentials of environmental science Like this video? SUBSCRIBE to Hot Mess! ►► http://bit.ly/hotmess_sub More info below… Let me make something super clear. If you take nothing else away, remember this: Soil is NOT dirt. Soil is productive, it’s useful. It’s fundamental to life as we know. It is an essential natural resource, a major component of most ecosystems, and has been celebrated in art and song for millenia. Dirt is just soil in the wrong place. Soil is the thin layer of inorganic and organic material wrapping the earth like a cozy blanket. It is where the abiotic lithosphere (that is, the upper mantle and crust of the Earth, the airless, unmoving underground stuff) meets all the living things in the biosphere. Welcome to our Learning series about the essentials of environmental science. We’ll have more from this series in the following videos, so stay tuned! Connect with us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/HotMessPBS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hotmesspbs Facebook: http://facebook.com/hotmesspbs Hot Mess T-shirts!: https://store.dftba.com/products/hot-mess-shirt ----------- Host: Joe Hanson, Ph.D. Writer: Miriam Nielsen Co-Writer: Scott Sowell, Ph.D. http://www.sowellscience.com/ Editor-in-chief: Joe Hanson Creative Director: David Schulte Executive Producer: Amanda Fox Producer: Stephanie Noone Editor/Animator: Sara Roma ----------- Produced by PBS Digital Studios Theme Music: Eric Friend/Optical Audio Music: APM


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The Water Cycle and Water Pollution | Essentials of Environmental Science

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Subject: Biology
Content of the Lesson: Welcome to our new special series about the essentials of environmental science Like this video? SUBSCRIBE to Hot Mess! ►► http://bit.ly/hotmess_sub More info below… I imagine you’re familiar with the concept of water. Maybe you’ve gotten caught unprepared in a rainstorm, watched ducks hang out in a pond, had a snowball fight, or swam in the ocean. If so, you were witnessing part of the water cycle. But the water cycle, or the hydrologic cycle, if you want to get multi-syllabic about it, is more than just what we can see. The hydrologic cycle links together the atmosphere, the soil, and all the living and nonliving parts of this planet. Welcome to our Learning series about the essentials of environmental science. We’ll have more from this series in the following videos, so stay tuned! Connect with us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/HotMessPBS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hotmesspbs Facebook: http://facebook.com/hotmesspbs Hot Mess T-shirts!: https://store.dftba.com/products/hot-mess-shirt ----------- Host: Joe Hanson, Ph.D. Writer: Miriam Nielsen Co-Writer: Scott Sowell, Ph.D. http://www.sowellscience.com/ Editor-in-chief: Joe Hanson Creative Director: David Schulte Executive Producer: Amanda Fox Producer: Stephanie Noone Editor/Animator: Sara Roma ----------- Produced by PBS Digital Studios Theme Music: Eric Friend/Optical Audio Music: APM


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Understanding the Atmosphere | Essentials of Environmental Science

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Content of the Lesson: Welcome to our new special series about the essentials of environmental science Like this video? SUBSCRIBE to Hot Mess! ►► http://bit.ly/hotmess_sub More info below… The air we breathe is this extremely precious thing. Especially, because there is so little of it - the atmosphere is really thin, it’s like if you wrapped a single layer of plastic wrap around a basketball. That thin sheet is what makes this tiny little planet in the vast solar system, and as far as we know - universe - able to sustain life. In this episode of the Essentials of Environmental Science, we’re going to look at some ways in which human beings have negatively affected the thin layer of earth’s atmosphere by filling it with pollutants, how we study the atmosphere, and how we can protect it. Welcome to our Learning series about the essentials of environmental science. We’ll have more from this series in the following videos, so stay tuned! Connect with us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/HotMessPBS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hotmesspbs Facebook: http://facebook.com/hotmesspbs Hot Mess T-shirts!: https://store.dftba.com/products/hot-mess-shirt ----------- Host: Joe Hanson, Ph.D. Writer: Miriam Nielsen Co-Writer: Scott Sowell, Ph.D. http://www.sowellscience.com/ Editor-in-chief: Joe Hanson Creative Director: David Schulte Executive Producer: Amanda Fox Producer: Stephanie Noone Editor/Animator: Sara Roma ----------- Produced by PBS Digital Studios Theme Music: Eric Friend/Optical Audio Music: APM


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Humans and the Environment | Essentials of Environmental Science

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Content of the Lesson: Welcome to our new special series about the essentials of environmental science Like this video? SUBSCRIBE to Hot Mess! ►► http://bit.ly/hotmess_sub More info below… What is “the environment”? Well, it’s everything, and it’s everywhere, including you and me. Just about every part of human civilization depends on a healthy and stable environment. Yet, human activity is causing pollution, climate change, and species loss, all of which disrupt that health and stability. So how do we study our environment in order to understand these changes and how we might fix them? That’s the purpose of environmental science. Welcome to our new Learning series about the essentials of environmental science. We’ll have more from this series in the following videos, so stay tuned! Connect with us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/HotMessPBS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hotmesspbs Facebook: http://facebook.com/hotmesspbs Hot Mess T-shirts!: https://store.dftba.com/products/hot-mess-shirt ----------- Host: Joe Hanson, Ph.D. Writer: Miriam Nielsen Co-Writer: Scott Sowell, Ph.D. (http://www.sowellscience.com/) Editor-in-chief: Joe Hanson Creative Director: David Schulte Executive Producer: Amanda Fox Producer: Stephanie Noone Editor/Animator: Sara Roma ----------- Produced by PBS Digital Studios Theme Music: Eric Friend/Optical Audio Music: APM


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The Link Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change

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Subject: Biology
Content of the Lesson: This is how we know climate change is making extreme weather even extreme-er Like this video? SUBSCRIBE to Hot Mess! ►► http://bit.ly/hotmess_sub Climate and weather are not the same thing. But climate change is making extreme weather events even more extreme. How do scientists pick apart how much stronger a storm is or how much hotter a heat wave is due to climate change and global warming? Guest host Adam Levy talks to Dr Fredi Otto to find out. #climate #climatechange #globalwarming Learn more: https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/ Connect with us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/HotMessPBS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hotmesspbs Facebook: http://facebook.com/hotmesspbs Hot Mess T-shirts!: https://store.dftba.com/products/hot-mess-shirt ----------- Host: Adam Levy, DPhil Guests: Dr Fredi Otto Editor-in-chief: Joe Hanson Creative Director: David Schulte Executive Producer: Amanda Fox Producer: Stephanie Noone Editor/Animator: Derek Borsheim Camera: Adam Levy ----------- Produced by PBS Digital Studios Theme Music: Eric Friend/Optical Audio Music: APM


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Can These Books Save The Planet? The Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady

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Subject: Biology
Content of the Lesson: Can’t read our way out of this one. Lots of references below! Like this video? SUBSCRIBE to Hot Mess! ►► http://bit.ly/hotmess_sub Climate Fiction comes in all sorts of forms, there’s your Mad Maxes, your Games of Thrones, your Parables of the Sowers, and your WALL-Es. But are all these Cli-Fi books, movies, and TV shows just capitalizing on a hot topic, or do they actually change people’s perceptions of climate change? Lindsay Ellis, of It’s Lit, and Amy Brady, the editor-in-chief of The Chicago Review of Books, help us find out. #climate #climatechange #globalwarming Read more: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vp6lDmU3vT-NvMTRzCkLW97JfX7FQ4ZLhX0qvTGg-_I/edit Connect with us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/HotMessPBS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hotmesspbs Facebook: http://facebook.com/hotmesspbs Hot Mess T-shirts!: https://store.dftba.com/products/hot-mess-shirt ----------- Host: Miriam Nielsen Guests: Lindsay Ellis and Amy Brady Editor-in-chief: Joe Hanson Creative Director: David Schulte Executive Producer: Amanda Fox Producer: Stephanie Noone Editor/Animator: Sara Roma Camera: Miriam Nielsen ----------- Produced by PBS Digital Studios Theme Music: Eric Friend/Optical Audio Music: APM


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Our Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum | Hot Mess

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Subject: Biology
Content of the Lesson: It’s not as easy as we want it to be. Lots of references below! Like this video? SUBSCRIBE to Hot Mess! ►► http://bit.ly/hotmess_sub The way we eat is unsustainable for the climate. Our food system contributes a massive amount of greenhouse gas emissions and touches basically every facet of our life. Modern diets also contribute to millions of lost lives every year from all the negative health outcomes. The answer is pretty simple on paper: We need to convert more of our diet to plant-based foods, and away from red meat. But in practice? It’s nowhere near that easy. How can something so necessary be so hard? We talked to food policy expert Sheril Kirshenbaum to learn more. #climate #climatechange #globalwarming Read more: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GU6_Rvwlb6sYwB3Bwiy9T6z3ub4ljXTSLI6KRff39og/edit?usp=sharing Connect with us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/HotMessPBS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hotmesspbs Facebook: http://facebook.com/hotmesspbs Hot Mess T-shirts!: https://store.dftba.com/products/hot-mess-shirt ----------- Host: Miriam Nielsen Guest: Sheril Kirshenbaum Writers: Miriam Nielsen and Sheril Kirshenbaum Editor-in-chief: Joe Hanson Creative Director: David Schulte Executive Producer: Amanda Fox Producer: Stephanie Noone Editor/Animator: Sara Roma Camera: Miriam Nielsen ----------- Produced by PBS Digital Studios Theme Music: Eric Friend/Optical Audio Music: APM


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Climate Change: Are You Scared Enough?

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Subject: Biology
Content of the Lesson: Maybe if you’re not scared, you’re not paying attention… Like this video? SUBSCRIBE to Hot Mess! ►► http://bit.ly/hotmess_sub Climate change is scary, because it will negatively impact just about every part of our lives. But the conventional wisdom on how to talk about climate change and inspire people to do something about it has always been “don’t scare people”. At least until recently. In the past couple years climate scientists and climate journalists have started talking in scarier and more worst case terms than ever before. Why? And is this a good thing? I talked to author David Wallace-Wells, author of “The Uninhabitable Earth” to learn more. #climate #climatechange #globalwarming Read more: Wallace-Wells, David. The uninhabitable earth: Life after warming. Tim Duggan Books, 2019. Connect with us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/HotMessPBS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hotmesspbs Facebook: http://facebook.com/hotmesspbs Hot Mess T-shirts!: https://store.dftba.com/products/hot-mess-shirt ----------- Host: Joe Hanson Guest: David Wallace-Wells Writers: Joe Hanson Ph.D. Creative Director: David Schulte Executive Producer: Amanda Fox Producer: Stephanie Noone Editor/Animator: Sara Roma Camera: Miriam Nielsen ----------- Produced by PBS Digital Studios Theme Music: Eric Friend/Optical Audio Music: APM


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