Casa Grande Films by Climate Discovery and the Climate Change Now Initiative
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The Ice and the Sea (65 min): The Big Melt in Greenland: The story is told from the west coast of Greenland and Padre Island on the Texas coast. Kangerlussuaq –Point 660, Ilulissat, and the Ilulissat Icefjord are the backdrop for melt and increased iceberg discharge. The results are shown on the four-wheel drive only beach of the Gulf of Mexico coastal barrier island Padre Island, on the middle and lower coast of Texas. 14,000 You Tube views (The Band’s favorite documentary.)
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What Have We Done? The North American Pine Beetle Pandemic (45 min): Native pine beetles driven berserk from warming creating an attack 20 times larger than anything before. The red, dead pine trees succumb by the hundreds of millions from New Mexico to Yellowstone. By 2012, 92 million acres have been killed across western North America with mortality up to 90 percent or greater. (The authors favorite documentary.)
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Beaches Decree (8 mins) A bluesy piece of rock tells the blunt story of the fate of our barrier island beaches as ongoing sea level rise begins their disintegration on Padre Island off the coast of Texas on the Gulf of Mexico. During normal weather in 2013, critical areas on Padre Island began to experience dune erosion during normal high tides.
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My Summer Vacation with Climate Change (9 mins): In 2011, Texas had a really bad year and Austin was the epicenter. We saw, by far, the biggest, baddest drought and wildfire season we have ever had. One fire burned within 200 feet of Climate Discovery World Headquarters front door. Dear friends homes were destroyed. Three-hundred and fifty million trees died. This is a short story about things related to the drought and fires in and around Austin, set to music by the band Climate Change.
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Trailer – This Land Is Your Land (4 mins): Four minutes strikingly forest mortality across the American West, caused by a native bark beetle gone berserk because of warming. (This Land is Your Land will be the 2016 HD remake of What Have We Done? Filming began in summer 2015 with insect and disease spreading vastly farther than the original pine beetle attack of the 2000s) .
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