A growing storm, or a break in the weather?
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Backstories
Behind the scenes of The Climate Restorers - Leading the Way Back to Our Future
Episode one
Watch the opening scene:
How do you start another documentary series about the climate, when daily stories about the weather and climate catastrophe are becoming as routine as the sports news?
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Sometimes, people like volume. But the volume of climate-catastrophe news may be numbing people and normalizing the situation.
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Our opening tornado sequence mirrors the social paralysis that many in the affluent world exhibit when faced with challenges they feel are out of their control, and don't connect with their own choices.
A few shots from the tornado bar sequence
Episode one focuses on methane - a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 that offers significant opportunities to slow down the rate of heating.
As it has a slow lifespan in the atmosphere, though, major reductions in methane emissions could be felt within only 8 to 12 years.
Special thanks to
Locatio
News anchor
Mike Yeoman
Bar cast:
Ryan Bogenreif
Brian Young
Angela Marinella
Philip Prud'homme
Michelle Stahl
Rob Zwick
Rob Zwick's sister
Kevin Coleman
Street youth:
Quetzal
Iver Robson Light
Haley Garreau
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Location
Tornado footage
Spencer Dant
Locations:
JUXT Bar, Bellingham
KAPS Radio & studio
Streets of Seattle
News anchor
Mike Yeoman
Crew:
John Bowey
Phoebe Barnard
Pat McDonnell
Cameron Currier
Ryan Bogenreif
Phoebe, Juxt staffer
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Up in Fairbanks, we connected with methane and tundra lake ecologist, Dr. Katey Walter Anthony, who showed us how climate heating thaws
permafrost and the landscape. Thawing permafrost releases methane, which in turn contributes to heating, which further accelerates
thawing. It's a feedback loop with potentially catastrophic consequences.