Causes of climate change (KS3/4)

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Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World | How is oil formed? | BBC Two

Professor Iain Stewart explains the natural process in which over millions of years oil is formed.

Content

  • Channel: BBC Two
  • Format: TV
  • Duration: 2'23''

Curriculum connections

Geography | Energy and Resources | Non-renewable and renewable energy | Non-renewable energy: fossil fuels

Royal Institution Christmas Lectures | Greenhouse gases | BBC Four

Professor Chris Jackson investigates the key greenhouse gases.

Content

  • Channel: BBC Four
  • Format: TV
  • Duration: 3'22''

Curriculum connections

Geography | Science | SMSC | Climate Change | COP26 | Causes of climate change

Climate Change by Numbers | Human Influence on Warming | BBC Four

Using statistics and graphs, Dr Norman Fenton demonstrates the impact that burning fossil fuels has had on climate change.

Content

  • Channel: BBC Four
  • Format: TV
  • Duration: 3'23"

Curriculum connections

Geography | Energy and Resources | Non-renewable and renewable energy | Non-renewable energy: fossil fuels

How Earth Made Us | Disruption to the ice age cycle | BBC Two

Professor Iain Stewart explains how humans prevented the next stage of the ice age cycle.

Content

  • Channel: BBC Two
  • Format: TV
  • Duration: 4'35"

Curriculum connections

Geography | Glacial landscapes | Glacial landforms | Ice

A Perfect Planet | Carbon dioxide | BBC One

Humans now release 100 times more carbon every year than all the Earth's volcanoes combined.

Content

  • Channel: BBC One
  • Format: TV
  • Duration: 2'10"

Curriculum connections

Geography | Natural hazards | Volcanoes | Volcanoes

Royal Institution Christmas Lectures | Carbon dioxide and climate change | BBC Four

Dr Tara Shine demonstrates how increased burning of fossil fuels since the industrial revolution produces more carbon dioxide, which is slowing warming up the planet.

Content

  • Channel: BBC Four
  • Format: TV
  • Duration: 2'49''

Curriculum connections

Geography | Science | Energy and Resources | Non-renewable and renewable energy | Non-renewable energy: fossil fuels

Natural World | Fossil fuels behind every day food | BBC Two

Rebecca Hosking goes through the fossil fuels involved in creating a shop bought sandwich.

Content

  • Channel: BBC Two
  • Format: TV
  • Duration: 2'09"

Curriculum connections

Geography | Rural environments | Farming | Farming and the environment

Meat: A Threat to Our Planet? | Amazon deforestation | BBC One

Liz Bonnin witnesses the devastation of the Amazon rainforest from the sky.

Content

  • Channel: BBC One
  • Format: TV
  • Duration: 4'20"

Curriculum connections

Geography | Ecosystems | Tropical rainforest biomes | Deforestation of the rainforest

Climate Change: The Facts | Deforestation | BBC One

Demonstration of the vast scale of deforestation to grow palm oil.

Content

  • Channel: BBC One
  • Format: TV
  • Duration: 2'44"

Curriculum connections

Geography | Ecosystems | Tropical rainforest biomes | Deforestation of the rainforest

Royal Institution Christmas Lectures | Carbon footprint of a loaf of bread | BBC Four

Dr Tara Shine discusses the carbon emissions from the process of baking a loaf of bread.

Content

  • Channel: BBC Four
  • Format: TV
  • Duration: 6'11"

Curriculum connections

Geography | Science | Energy and Resources | Non-renewable and renewable energy | Non-renewable energy: fossil fuels