Sir David Attenborough To Create Television Series On Climate Breakdown

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Special report: the BBC | Television

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Sir David Attenborough will turn his attention to climate change for one of his last major natural history projects for the BBC.
The veteran TV presenter will look at the effects of global warming as part of a season of programmes across the BBC, returning to a subject he first tackled in BBC1's State of the Planet five years ago.

Sir David warns of the potential consequences of climate change in his latest BBC1 series, Life in the Undergrowth. He said he saw "again and again" the impact of global warming during more than two years of filming, and warned that traditional patterns of insect behaviour had begun to change. "You would find that something that was supposed to happen in the first week of May now didn't happen," he said. "It would happen a fortnight before, or you would have to wait another two weeks to see it."

The BBC director of factual and learning, John Willis, said the corporation was planning a season of programmes on climate change and the environment across TV, radio and online. He said it would be a "cross-BBC" effort with programmes on Radio 4 and the BBC2 science documentary strand, Horizon.

Sir David will work on the new series at the same time as his next natural history epic, Life in Cold Blood, in which he looks at reptiles and amphibians. He said it was likely to be his last series on such a grand scale.

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[shenmue]

1. Looking forward to it

Should be excellent.

:applause:

:7

[prescole]

2. Awesome. Attenborough's credibility is way up there.

A good bit better than Rush "Global Warming is a leftist ploy" Limbaugh.
Randi Rhodes calls him Rush LIMBO, as in, how low can you go?

[KoKo]

3. Thank GAWD! It's been TOO LONG! n/t

[Dead_Parrot]

4. Wow

There are around 15 billion species on this planet: I swear Attenborough has filmed at least half of them. The man's unstoppable.

This will be something to watch out for...