The ocean and the earth’s climate | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Duration: 3'48''

Synopsis

Dr Helen Czerski demonstrates how the ocean regulates the earth's climate with stored up heat energy.

Further Information

More clips from Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Carbon in the ocean | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Carbon in the ocean | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

BBC Four | 2020 | 5'24''

Dr Helen Czerski explains how carbon is incorporated into the ocean and how the increase in carbon intake is impac...

Energy and climate change | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Energy and climate change | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

BBC Four | 2020 | 4'45''

Dr Helen Czerski demonstrates how climate change is impacting the ocean.

Salt in the ocean | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Salt in the ocean | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

BBC Four | 2019 | 2'21''

Dr Helen Czerski investigates the salt in the ocean.

The largest waterfall in the world | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

The largest waterfall in the world | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

BBC Four | 2020 | 4'47''

Dr Helen Czerski explains how a waterfall under the ocean produces a warmer water on top and colder...

Carbon in the ocean | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Carbon in the ocean | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

BBC Four | 2020 | 5'24''

Dr Helen Czerski explains how carbon is incorporated into the ocean and how the increase in carbon intake is impac...

Energy and climate change | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Energy and climate change | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

BBC Four | 2020 | 4'45''

Dr Helen Czerski demonstrates how climate change is impacting the ocean.

Salt in the ocean | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Salt in the ocean | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

BBC Four | 2019 | 2'21''

Dr Helen Czerski investigates the salt in the ocean.

The largest waterfall in the world | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

The largest waterfall in the world | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

BBC Four | 2020 | 4'47''

Dr Helen Czerski explains how a waterfall under the ocean produces a warmer water on top and colder...

More resources about Art and Design

2: The City and the Soul | The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour

2: The City and the Soul | The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour

BBC Four | 2014 | 58'59''

As the Industrial Revolution promised more inexplicable wonders of the modern world, Gothic art and lit...

Benin Bronzes | Civilisations

Benin Bronzes | Civilisations

BBC Four | 2018 | 5'35''

David Olusoga visits the Benin Bronzes at the British Museum.

1: Liberty, Diversity, Depravity | The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour

1: Liberty, Diversity, Depravity | The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour

BBC Four | 2014 | 58'56''

In 18th century England, out of the Age of Enlightenment came a Gothic obsession with monsters ...

2: Andreas Vesalius | The Beauty of Anatomy

2: Andreas Vesalius | The Beauty of Anatomy

BBC Four | 2014 | 29'10''

Adam Rutherford tells the story of 16th-century anatomist Andreas Vesalius, who produced the first complete account of the human ...

Making a chair (Part 1) | Inside the Factory

Making a chair (Part 1) | Inside the Factory

BBC Two | 2022 | 6'37''

Gregg visits different parts of the factory to find out how the parts for his Windsor chair get made. First up cutting the diffe...

Cotton mill | Pubs, Ponds and Power: The Story of the Village

Cotton mill | Pubs, Ponds and Power: The Story of the Village

BBC Four | 2018 | 5'53''

The creation of one of the first cotton mills in Cromford.

Making a chair (Part 2) | Inside the Factory

Making a chair (Part 2) | Inside the Factory

BBC Two | 2022 | 4'15''

Gregg visits different parts of the factory to find out how the parts for his Windsor chair get made. Next up, bending the bow o...

Propaganda films | Age of the Image

Propaganda films | Age of the Image

BBC Four | 2020 | 4'39''

James Fox explains the method in which propaganda was created to advertise Nazism.

S6E6: Chairs | Inside the Factory

S6E6: Chairs | Inside the Factory

BBC Two | 2022 | 59'09''

Gregg Wallace visits the Ercol factory in Buckinghamshire to follow the production of a Windsor chair. Meanwhile, Cherry Healey investigate...

Sourcing and processing timber | Inside the Factory

Sourcing and processing timber | Inside the Factory

BBC Two | 2022 | 5'09''

Cherry investigates the source of wood used for making Windsor chairs, and the process it undergoes to make it ready for ...

Anatomy in Tudor Britain | The Beauty of Anatomy

Anatomy in Tudor Britain | The Beauty of Anatomy

BBC Four | 2014 | 2'49''

Adam Rutherford explains how Vesalius' anatomy had reached and was being used in Tudor England.

Florence Nightingale's rose diagram | The Beauty of Diagrams

Florence Nightingale's rose diagram | The Beauty of Diagrams

BBC Four | 2010 | 1'25''

Florence Nightingale's revolutionary and controversial rose diagram showed that hospitals, as they were, could k...

Galenic anatomy | The Beauty of Anatomy

Galenic anatomy | The Beauty of Anatomy

BBC Four | 2014 | 5'07''

Adam Rutherford explains Galen's theory of the four humours.

Islamic Art | Civilisations

Islamic Art | Civilisations

BBC Two | 2018 | 4'41''

Mary Beard explores Islamic artwork and the debates within Islam about the role of artists and images.

Making a chair (Part 3) | Inside the Factory

Making a chair (Part 3) | Inside the Factory

BBC Two | 2022 | 4'01''

Gregg visits different parts of the factory to find out how the parts for his Windsor chair get made. Next up, sanding the separ...

Making a chair (Part 4) | Inside the Factory

Making a chair (Part 4) | Inside the Factory

BBC Two | 2022 | 6'17''

Gregg visits different parts of the factory to find out how the parts for his Windsor chair get made. Next up, assembling the co...

Making a chair (Part 5) | Inside the Factory

Making a chair (Part 5) | Inside the Factory

BBC Two | 2022 | 4'34''

Gregg visits different parts of the factory to find out how the parts for his Windsor chair get made. Last up, polishing the cha...

S1E4: West Africa | Lost Kingdoms of Africa

S1E4: West Africa | Lost Kingdoms of Africa

BBC Four | 2010 | 48'51''

Gus Casely-Hayford travels to Nigeria and Mali to explore the story behind a series of magnificent 16th-century bronzes made in t...

S2E2: Van Gogh - Life and Art | Art on the BBC

S2E2: Van Gogh - Life and Art | Art on the BBC

BBC Four | 2022 | 59'02''

Art historian Kate Bryan explores the BBC archives to create a television history of a man who has become the embodiment of th...

Shirley Hughes | What Do Artists Do All Day?

Shirley Hughes | What Do Artists Do All Day?

BBC Four | 2016 | 28'41''

Shirley Hughes works on the final page of her latest Alfie book, discusses her love of illustrating and tells why, at the age of...

More from Helen Czerski

Energy and climate change | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Energy and climate change | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

BBC Four | 2020 | 4'45''

Dr Helen Czerski demonstrates how climate change is impacting the ocean.

Chladni experiment | Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics

Chladni experiment | Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics

BBC Four | 2017 | 1'59''

Dr Helen Czerski investigates the science behind the sounds and how Chladni used sand to see the shape of sound vib...

Rhyolite eruption - Puyehue-Cordón Caulle | Dangerous Earth

Rhyolite eruption - Puyehue-Cordón Caulle | Dangerous Earth

BBC Four | 2016 | 3'50''

How hurricanes are formed by Earth's rotation | Learning Zone

How hurricanes are formed by Earth's rotation | Learning Zone

BBC Two | 2012 | 5'20''

Physicist Helen Czerski explains that hurricanes happen because the earth is rotating. She shows how, because t...

Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey

Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey

BBC Two | 2012 | 58'23''

Kate Humble and Dr Helen Czerski follow the Earth's voyage around the sun for one complete orbit, travelling first from July to the Dece...