Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey

[nking]

I've just watched the first of a 3 part programme by the BBC. If you're interested in understanding the weather then I would recommend it as good viewing.
Here are a couple of links http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xztbr
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips ... /1592.html

I would think that those living outside of the UK will not be able to access the links - sorry

[GraemeT]

Sounds like an interesting show - we'll probably get it in Aus by about 2014....

[serowe]

For those outside the UK, if you know how to keep the Pirate's at Bay, you can see it quite easily at 554Mb it's not a big file by today's standards...

[serowe]

Having now watched the first two episodes of this 3 part series I have to say <yawn> it suffers greatly from the 'American Disease' - in that over two hours (so far) all the worlds weather is generated by, and dependant upon, the northern hemisphere. There are two verbal mentions that the southern hemisphere actually exists in ep 1, and a brief (less than 2 minute) mention in ep 2.

For a supposedly 'insight' into the 'world's' weather in its yearly orbit around the sun, you would think they would look at the big picture and not just one hemisphere.

Added to this, they then use a hypothesis to describe as fact the effects of the moons creation on the world's weather. Given that there is still no clear scientific evidence as to exactly how (and even when) the moon was created, for these two 'knowledgeable people' to present a scientific hypothesis as fact - well it shows the dumbing down of the material being covered.

Yes, there is some interesting information about winds etc - but the shows refusal to acknowledge that there is a major weather factory south of the equator - well, even penicillin can't cure all diseases...