Fellow STELS,

Looking for interesting and informative video clips to watch during your next study break? Check out the links below:

Modeling the Future, a talk with STEPHEN H. SCHNEIDER, a climatologist, and Professor in the Biological Sciences Department at Stanford University. He is internationally recognized as one of the world's leading experts in atmospheric research and its implications for environment and society. He is author of Laboratory Earth: The Planetary Gamble We Can't Afford to Lose.

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/schneider08/schneider08_index.html

Al Gore presents updates to his film Inconvenient Truth in this brand-new slideshow (posted April 2008)! In this presentation, he offers additional evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of "generational mission" -- the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement -- to set it right. Gore's stirring presentation is followed by a brief Q&A in which he is asked for his verdict on the current political candidates' climate policies and on what role he himself might play in future.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/243

Also, for those who care to join me for the film screening of the 11th Hour this comming Tuesday (EARTH DAY 2008), feel free to email me opradhan@stu.edu to arrange a carpool. I have at least two extra tickets ($5/ea). The show starts at 6pm. Watch the film's trailer:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/warner_independent_pictures/the11thhour/trailer1/

Omar