Wait a minuet i have worked out how to download it.
Thanks anyway. Cool animation. Good luck with the film.

Peace and Love

Graham

Really like it! Like Graham, I Would like to use it to show others but, unlike Graham, I haven't worked out how to download it! HELP, please.
Love and respect
Lotte

Great work, Leo. Cheers, Tom.

We reposted this to the Greener Leith blog too greenerleith.org

Superb! Is there somewhere a "download button" for a mp4 (for iPod or iPhone)? Or flv-file? Will it be on youtube?

A brilliant film, highly recommended that everyone should watch all the way to the end. Then send it to all their friends :)

Good stuff, congratulation! I would only hope a more slowly talk. Graphics of hypercycle excellent.

Exquisite animation and sound effects - may many be woken up by it. Congratulations.

I loved it! I would like to share this with my familly, but many of them are French natives and may not understand this in full. Are there plans to translate it to other languages? This needs to be seen worldwide!

Thanks for the video and the script I am using it as part of a unit on how we should be dealing with climate change, using existing technologies.

Great film - educational, easy to understand and pointing out the consequences of business as usual attitudes. I just showed this to a handful of my students where I teach as they are studying 'global issues'... definitely a wake up for them in light of the conservative curriculum which chooses to ignore our plight..

This fantastic little film hits the mark!!!
You need to get this used as a public Advertisement for the people, On Public Television all over the World!!
Great Work!!!!! I love it. Work well done. Nothing speaks better than the truth!!!

Great film, can we down load it anywhere else in other formats, my computer doesn't like the AVI version?

Hi Leo,
"Wake-up" is breathtaking. I'm an English teacher in Brazil and I've been showing your movie to my pupils, as an introduction to our classes on recycling. They love it. I wonder if you would allow us to adapt it for theater, a non-profit school play. Thank you so much indeed. Alexandre.

The truly scary thing is that we are already seeing the beginnings of this. India for instance is building a huge wall and fence (a bit like the Berlin Wall) along their border with Bangladesh. Someone should ask India whether it's designed to keep out the sea as well :(

Leo - thanks for this inspiring and funny film. Embedded at throwingbeans.org.

Essential viewing for every living thing on this planet. Have blanket forwarded to everyone in my address book, even if it's Amazon customer care....The problem is that most of my friends are already clued up, how can we take decisive action against those with the power to change things???

Well done Leo for a beautifully crafted piece that treads the fine line between hope and despair....

Well done. Love the art direction and animation style. Looks like a fun project for an important subject.

Good work Leo!

I'm not an activist, I'm just a follower of the case, simply we have to do something; in news and Discovery Channel we hear these, in newspapers we read and so on, so as we see who has access to computer, TV or newspaper already know what the problem is, but the thing is that, not much people do any, not a single country really supports the issue, because of the companies. I wonder how to act, really, even though I'm not an actiivist like Gandhi or Luther.
What do we have to do, really and how?

Very well done. But still not worried about climate change.

With the election of Barak Obama in the US, there is some hope for action finally. The US is the main source of the problem and has been dragging it's feet. Hopefully a little leadership is on the horizon.

Excelent fillm!
is possible a spanish version?

Superb, very well done.

So many people, including influential people, are unaware of this. The more popularisation the better, provided it is credible and founded in auditable (at least) evidence. I hope it is wrong, but fear it is not.

Very good message, and very well explained.

Great Animation. Why did you choose to invert all the colors/nrgative?

Congratulations! Such a simple and yet profound presentation. I'm sure your message has stroke many of us! Is a Portuguese version possible?

Superb! This film is well animated, well written and overall a great message. If this film, and others like it, don't get publicized, the problem will never be fixed and we will reach that ever-present tipping point you are talking about. I am incredibly grateful that you made this film, and that Vimeo featured it. The first step to fixing global warming is informing people, especially important people, and this film will do that I am sure.
Is this film on YouTube? If it is I am ashamed to be a member because I do not thing that they have featured it, and if it is not I think you should post it there because it could make a world of difference if more people knew about this impending tipping point.
Thank you for the great film,

-Henry

Great job.

VERY VERY great video!!!!

You are absolutely right but I'm not sure if we can come to change something, we must also raising "save the earth" Congratulations Leo Murray.

I just noticed that there's no link on this page to the Turkish-subtitled version at vimeo.com/2316052 - hopefully the first of many such translations!

A very interesting and simple to understand video.

I believe that this video should be shown to audiences of large numbers as it is way easier to follow than your average climate change video.

All i can say is.....Job greatly done and i hope it makes a difference no matter how small.

Good animation.
Was it carbon neutral to produce?
I've just spent an hour turning off everything electrical in my house. Depressing stuff. Hope we're not too late.

Wow. So clear and simple. I love it. This kind of creativity is what gives me hope.

OK, a well-made movie, but:

[rant]As usual, the solution proposed (consume less, abolish technology, live on the trees, sing African songs) is exactly the opposite of what we need. What we need is a series of major technological leaps - fusion power, large-scale CO2 sequestration, space exploration. We won't get there if we consume less - we must consume more! Historically, humans were only making big steps in technology when put into a corner (by natural disasters or a major war).

As for the world without manufacturing and airplanes and with electric power only when the wind blows in the right direction - I don't think such world is worth saving or living in.[/rant]

hi im delilah im 11 and i think that your video is amazing!!
i would love it if it could be shown in my school!!!!!

Excellent! One of the problems for many people is the so-called debate about the elements of the problem: the history of previous warming periods, what exactly is now going on and what to do about it all, all of which rests on what one denies or thinks about of the elements of the problem. I say "so-called" as what I perceive is not an argument in the philosophical sense, based on agreed logic and observable data, but a contest of points of view based on assumed interests, often held with an almost religious fervour. In this climate [pardon the pun!] there can be no shame in being relentlessly logical and precise in one's statements. I would therefore have liked to hear, for example, WHEN it was last 10 degrees hotter and more references to the science behind the claims of there being a tipping point and when it is likely.

The film is perfect for people in the know and perhaps for the curious and open-minded who aren't. But what about the uninformed and those who positively don't want to know? What is there to engage them? With these people, a more rigorous script that did not assume the viewer was one sandwich short of a picnic, might cut more ice.

One of the central questions is about how accurately predictive the model, based on the best science we have, actually is. Sceptics will not be moved by indefinite statements about there being a potential tipping point at some undefined future time. Such people often spring from a world of market trading or politics, or some humdrum job where their future is beyond their control, where anything beyond next week is regarded quite naturally as being incalculable.

So, to me, it seems there is a need for a very clear statement about the nature of prediction which would effectively attack the basis of the facile, but exceedingly widespread, argument that if you cannot say more or less exactly when something is going to happen, then you are only whistling in the wind. Let me give you an example. A soldier going ashore on D-Day could not claim to know what was going to happen in any definitive sense. Indeed, he could build an argument, based on all the very obvious unknowns, to show that any particular prediction would be highly unlikely. Yet a person with more data would see though all this well-marshalled scepticism and be able to make a prediction, as indeed the leaders of the Allied forces did. So there needs to be a statement about the value of quoting all the science and an unashamed show of doing just that [yes, I agree, without turning the story into a catalogue of “facts”] - or at least several consistent references in the script to a place where one can read about the background supporting data, or see another video for grownups, so to speak. On top of this it is vital to positively say that there are lots of people like the soldier on D-day, who do not really know what is going on and who indulge in very logical doubting, on the basis of his insufficient data, as a defence mechanism and that this is a very common psychological reality that needs to be addressed: in short, a discussion of the dangers of holding very logical but UNINFORMED opinions which rest on obfuscation.

These are the people who need to be motivated to consume less etc. and dancing around their dimness and addiction to the inertia of their comfortable life-style by producing a dumbed-down script is to play into their problem: a world where every one is "entitled to their opinion" and all TV news has to be "balanced" etc. no matter how cuckoo the "entitled opinion" or the "balancing" story might be – in short a world where clear thinking is positively disallowed.

One needs to sharpen one's pen before it is too late and one has to sharpen one's bayonet.

PS - New Zealand

Hi Leo,
Thank you so much for your reply and permission, I'm really honoured by that. I wish I could send you a copy of the script, most of it is written in English, assuming you don't speak any Portuguese. I also have a picture of the performance, in which you can see the scenery all decorated with waste material such as cans and blankets, and a copy in real of your tipping point board. It was a very special evening, I wish you'd been there to watch it. Our students simply loved working on those ideas and images. If I ever can be of any help to you, please don't hesitate getting in touch. My e-mail is xanpadilha@hotmail.com
My warmest regards, Alexandre

Excellent job Leo! You are right, everyone has to start acting now. Just want to share with everyone that the quickest and most efficient way of cutting down carbon emission is to stop eating meat or try to reduce meat eating as much as possible. Some figures for your reference:
Cutting down meat consumption:
• Saves over 70% of the Amazonian rainforest from clearance for animal grazing
• A solution for world hunger: (there isn't a single hungry pig or bull in the current world but we have one billion starving fellow humans)
o Frees up 3,433 million hectares of land annually
o Frees up 760 million tons of grain every year
(half the world’s grain supply)
• Consumes 2/3 less fossil fuels than those used for meat production.
• Reduces pollution from untreated animal waste
• Maintains cleaner air
• Saves 4.5 tons of emissions per US household per year
• Stops 80% of global warming

PLUS MORE…

• Lowers blood pressure
• Lowers cholesterol levels
• Reduces Type 2 diabetes
• Prevents stroke conditions
• Reverses atherosclerosis
• Reduces heart disease risk by 50%
• Reduces heart surgery risk by 80%
• Prevents many forms of cancer
• Stronger immune system
• Increases life expectancy by up to 15 years
• Higher IQ
• Conserves up to 70% clean water

Excellent Video congratulations!
It goes direct to the topic, it explains this very complex problem in a very simple way and everybody can understand.

We want to unite the movement for global democracy, which is divided into many fractures.
Global democracy will hopefully solve problems like: environmental pollution, social injustice, poverty, war, financial crisis, etc.

The aim is to set up a political system that will be able to control the market and will compensate market failure.


Feel free to join the discussion on: globaldemo.org





Also we need cool people like you making videos that f***** rock!

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ps: We are still working on the page. It is online already, but not yet officially launched.

Watch the clip in German, French and English online at
cinerebelde.org - Multilingual DVD also available.

Wonderful and very instructive video

Great video, Leo! I shall use it as motivation material in classes in Argentina. The CC and security point was well highlighted.

Keep up the good work. I shall be waiting for the Spanish version (I understand that it is on its way but could not find it in the site you mentioned.
Carmen Virasoro, Argentina

well it'll be just like a repetition, but I want to truly congratulate you for this great dynamic explanation that a lot of people will certainly understand and take in. now it's time for everyone who makes conscious decisions to start doing them for the wellbeing of every living creature. if you need help with the spanish version, I can help. thanks!

Global Warming has been happening since the end of the last Ice Age. Nice little cartoon, though.

Denial has been happening since the beginning of recorded history.

This is wonderful, both the content and the animation

The video is incorrect on many counts. Increased ocean warmth, even if it was happening(it's not) would increase evaporation which would increase rain which would also fall as snow and ice on the poles which would add ice not decrease it. Increased evaporation would also create more clouds, and clouds reflect the sun's radiation heat back into space, creating cooling beneath the clouds. Earth spends most of its time in ice age and is slowly approaching the next. Ask any geologist. There is no tipping point, it is science fiction, there has never been one before and we have come through millions of years of fluctuation. 1000 years ago the earth was warmer - and survived. In fact everything flourished. Cute animation, but hopelessly incorrect. Sorry.

Funnily enough Alec I have asked a geologist. Tipping points are believed to be a central feature of transition in and out of glacial periods, and large scale natural climate change like this is now well understood to be a non-linear process, with slow buildups to sudden, rapid change. There is no reason to think current human-induced warming will be any different; indeed it is happening at an unprecedented speed in geological terms, meaning tipping points are liable to be triggered sooner rather than later. The earth wasn't hotter 1000 years ago; this is a persistent global warming denier meme that is demonstrably wrong. Like everyone who thinks they know something about the science of climate change because they read some stuff on the internet somewhere, I would urge you to go to my fully referenced script and source material and educate yourself before making further embarrassing claims like the ones you make here. wakeupfreakout.org/

congratulations Leo.i wish the video would be used as an advert especially to kenyan tv since most pple dont know what climate change is.al make sure i forward it to al my friends and relatives

Thanks so much to Leo & co. for this - we are showing your video to everybody at our office as a key part of Earth Day 2009 effort.

Regarding Alec Douglas' skeptical comment yesterday, he might want to revisit Al Gore's movie: ice cores from antartica prove that atmospheric carbon has doubled in the past 50 years over anything that's existed for at least 300,000 years! Mr. Douglas might also refer to the reports of the nobel-prize-winning International Panel on Climate Change, and to Dr. Andrew Weaver's book - 100 out of 100 renowned CLIMATOLOGISTS passionately agree on the facts. Anybody who has doubts about climate change and its potential impact should simply investigate more.

Those who are still skeptical must remember the consequences of our two options: if we do nothing and global warming does happen, we have a catastrophy. But if we act and we didn't really need to, we wasted some time but we're still here.

I agree - a fantastic video. Have been trying to download and seems to be successful, but then only plays about half the video. We have tried twice with same result. Any advice??

I coordinate a programme for secondary schools in Kenya (also runs in UK and India) and would like to run the video as the introduction for our national event for schools here in Nairobi, in mid May.

Greig Whitehead
International Climate Challenge Programme. Kenya

Al Gore's science fiction movie? You mean the polystyrene ice block scenes? That's science? Why does Al Gore never accept invitations to debate? His movie is fodder for intellectual idiots. I especially loved the temperature graph that said over 130 years the earth has increased by 0.7C and that meant we are doomed. Small irrelevant fact that there weren't thermometers around then that could read tenths. Where I am sitting right now in the Albany morning sunshine the temperature has risen by double that in the last five minutes. So are mornings also caused by man?
Andrew: if we do nothing our economy will spring back. Sometimes doing nothing is wiser than doing something stupid. Global warming is still fiction. No seas are rising, they are falling. Tuvalu is a sinking atoll. The poles are increasing ice. Just google "glaciers advancing" to get heaps of evidence that they are not all retreating. The real catastrophe is disappearing intellectual integrity and mass gullibility. Of course it was warmer 1000 years ago. Just google "Mediaeval Warming Period".

this is really great! the simplicity of the art direction keeps your attention to the subject.
great initiative!

Great Video.... I just wrote up a post on why you should care about sustainability including this video tinyurl.com/dd3waq

Riveting, motivating and eminently watchable. Well done. We will be showing as many people here in Brisbane, Australia as possible. Thank you.

Mr Murray, this is excellent, as you have heard 93.1k times before! Great work. I have posted this on my website: Weathergal.com Keep it up! Thanks for allowing people to spread this around the net.

Thank you very much for this excellent graphic with user friendly explanation. I hope to use it a a teaching resource on climate change for schools in Australia. Along with the LAtimes recent articles. In Australia we seem to be in denial. Not much in the press and you have to read The Age and watch ABC TV to get anything. Rudd seems powerless under the current economic situation to do much at all. However people are dying in significant numbers through - heat - fire & flooding here.
Thanks once again.

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That is a great movie. Congratulations Leo Murray for explaining the science I have read over the last few years but struggled to put into words.

About the only thing it doesn't cover is the RATE at which we are adding GHGs to the atmosphere, which is some 10,000 times faster than the natural cyclic rates deduced from ice-core and similar measurements. The rate of change overwhelms the natural balance mechanisms. For example, It is not possible for carbonate rock to be weathered in 100 years to an extent that would normally take 1,000,000 years, yet that is what would be required for this important carbon sink to reduce carbon effectively.

I will be sharing this with everybody I can.

A brilliant film, highly recommended that everyone should watch all the way to the end. Then send it to all their friends. Really hits the mark

A brilliant film - we will be adding it to our site.
If you are aged 10-18 years and want to debate climate change ave a look at Footprint Friends...

Hi Leo, I join almost everyone in saying I think this is just great & I've been doing my best to spread it far & wide.. on which note I like your feedback on something. I posted this on the f/b wall of one of the founders of Avaaz, he had this to say: hey Madeleine - thanks for this -- i think it's great up until minute 9, when the big answer is to consume less - i can understand that answer but it threatens to distract us from the only thing that will work - a global treaty that puts a high price on carbon!

What are your feelings on that? I think you touch on it with the 'actively confronting' bit, but - as is evident from one youtube comment where someone asks 'how do you actively confront' (someone responds 'activism!') - not everyone understands how to help/do something.

Personally I feel there could be a little more about what action to take, or perhaps some links at the end to the major activist groups like stopclimatechaos.org & 350.org & Avaaz.org

Sadly I think we have to make it really easy for people, so once they've been drawn in by your great animation they can see the next step very clearly...

Anyway blah blah - bloody well done!

What a brilliant film you've created Leo. Lets hope our world leaders will take the message and secure a safe climate future for us all in Copenhagen.

Hi Leo my name is Barry Bolton and I am Chairman of Recycling services company ACM Waste Management plc and loved your film. I am also a member of the All Party Parlimentry Climate Change Group APPCCG, a title which in itself highlights the over complcation and confussion which often surrounds this topic. I totally agree with your comments around consumption and unsustainable growth. For this reason I would if you havent already point you to the principles of Contraction and Convergence (C&C) as a proposed global framework for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change. C & C addresses some of the political challenges you touch on which are undoubtedly barriers for the urgent change in behaviour that we require. So once again a huge well done in giving people like me any easy tool to explain the dangers of tipping points. With your permission I would like to promote and direct as many people to this film as possible in the hope that we can do enough soon enough. Many thanks Barry

Great video covering a number of important bases. It should be a good starting point for anyone who wants to look more closely at the state current knowledge on any of the complex disciplines that go together to make up our understanding of the 'global warming' label.

well done this is what people need to see and hear. have posted it on roguephoto.org hope the message is spread like it needs to be before it is too late...

Can you please add English subtitle for those who can't hear? It'll be useful for the ESL students too. Thank you!

amazing. thanks for wanting to live in a better world. lets leave this world better than we found it

Dear Leo,
we watched your video during our Geo 109 class. You have an amazing technical knowledge, that's for sure. Though I think it's a bit too long - half the class fell asleep during watching it. The visual support is very poor - the contrast made parts barely visible, or hard for the eyes. Avoid white on black. Include more infographics and variety, less speech.

This should be required viewing for every Republican in congress and the senate.

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