Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

2020: Planet Earth: A User’s Guide

2020 · 3 episodes · 2h 57m in all · 7.0/10

Episodes

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   1. Engine Earth

   28 Dec 2020 · 59 min · 7.0/10

   Professor Chris Jackson reveals how, for billions of years, volcanic activity drove climate change on planet Earth. Now, it is humans.

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   2. Water World

   29 Dec 2020 · 59 min · 7.0/10

   Dr Helen Czerski explains why the ocean is so vital to life on earth and what we need to know to be good citizens of our ocean planet.

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   3. Up In The Air

   30 Dec 2020 · 59 min · 7.0/10

   Dr Tara Shine takes a deep breath and explores the gases that make up the air we breath. One of them might provide the answer for heating and transport in the future.