Showtime: The Years of Living Dangerously

We are a long way from Al Gore in this latest Showtime presentation, not that there is anything wrong with Al Gore.  But the new program The Years of Living Dangerously, which premiered April 13th, has a whole new cast discussing global change while mingling with the victims.  

You have Harrison Ford working with NASA and visiting destroyed parkland as well as hunted elephants in Indonesia.  You have Don Cheadle in Texas looking at drought, the closing of a Cargill plant, and the interplay of science and Christianity. And finally, you have Thomas Friedman visiting the White House and then going to Turkey and Syria to measure the role of drought in the Syrian Civil War.  And this is just the first episode available for free on the site above.  Future episodes will include Arnold Schwarzenegger, Matt Damon, and many others.  

Is this popular science?  No, it is solid science, but the scientific ideas are more than charts and computer models.  The ideas are made flesh in the stories being told.  I was impressed with the overall presentation and look forward to future episodes.  You may want to check it out yourself.