Over the last hundred years, global sea levels have risen by between 10-20 cm. and with the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps melting at an ever increasing rate, the threat to low-lying and coastal communities is real and imminent. Rising temperatures are already disrupting weather patterns and ecosystems. According to the latest IPCC report, by 2050 mean global temperatures will have risen by between 1.4 and 2 degrees. This type of forecasting is hard: it relies on effective modelling of dynamic, non-linear, coupled systems, but all models conclude that the principal driver of climate change is human activity, largely increased greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation.

In this talk by Barbara Williams we examine the cultural causes of climate change.

In terms of the video production, this was my first use of the Rode Wireless Go system, and it worked perfectly with no loss of signal at any point. The transmitter and receiver pair up automatically and quickly. The system selects the channel with no need for user input. Although the transmitter has a built-in microphone, I preferred to use a clip-on Lavalier microphone. The sound was recorded to a Tascam DR05 and synced with the video using Premiere Pro's synchonisation feature, which is a big time-saver.