You can relive the great triumph that was Copenhagen....hang on, I'll start that again. You can watch through your fingers as BBC Parliament shows highlights of the speeches at Copenhagen.
Monday 21st December
Man on Earth
On: Channel 4
Time: 21:00 to 22:00
Tony Robinson continues his journey to some of the world's most important and intriguing archaeological sites to find out what happened to our ancestors when violent climate change turned their worlds upside down. In this programme Tony picks through the ruins of three great civilisations from the last 2,000 years to ask what made these civilisations more vulnerable to climate catastrophe than the ones who survived. In the jungles of Central America he investigates how decades-long drought brought the advanced Mayan civilisation to an apocalyptic end, resorting to human sacrifices to plead to their gods for salvation.
Hardtalk Review of The Year
On: BBC News
Time: 23:30 to 00:00
In a special edition, the programme samples the stand-out interviews of 2009. Climate change dominated, and HARDtalk travelled to Greenland to see whether the planet's climate is headed in a dangerous direction. Veteran American politicians like James Clyburn and Maxine Waters were interviewed, and intellectual Noam Chomsky discussed President Obama's first year. The programme also marked the first anniversary of the global financial crisis, visited sculptor Anish Kapoor, and talked to fashion icon Vivienne Westwood.
Tuesday 22nd December
Defining The Decade
On: BBC Radio Four
Time: 09:00 to 09:45 (Also 2130)
2: The Heat Is On.
Three-part series in which Edward Stourton tries to make sense of the past decade, in which history has been put on fast forward. Back in the year 2000 the world's leaders didn't seem to be troubled by the notion of global warming, so what has changed?
Home Planet
On: BBC Radio Four
Time: 15:00 to 15:30
Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions about the natural world and our impact on it.
Wednesday 23rd December
Copenhagen Speeches
On: BBC Parliament
Time: 13:35 to 14:35 (Also Thu 1010, Fri 0645, Sat 2355, Sun 2030)
Highlights of speeches at December's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
Thursday 24th December
One Planet
On: BBC World Service Radio
Time: 10:32 to 11:00 (Also 2030, 0130, Sat 2030, Sun 0630, 2330)
One Planet looks at how we use our planet.
Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
On: more4
Time: 19:00 to 20:05
Ecologist Professor Sue Hartley continues to show how the epic 300-million-year war between plants and animals has shaped us and the world we live in. Professor Hartley asks if humans are natural herbivores. How good are we at eating plants and overcoming their defences? And she tackles the hot potato of GM technology. Although we actually quite enjoy some plant defences - the sharp taste of mustard, the spiciness of pepper and the varied flavours of herbs are all caused by plant toxins - human agriculture has usually tried to disarm plant defences and increase plant nutrient content. Our domestic varieties of wheat and cabbage now look, and taste, very different to their wild relatives. This "green revolution" has allowed us to support billions of people on our small planet. But is our humanly modified food now too defenceless? It's delicious to us, but also to the insect pests that destroy our crops.
The Frozen Frontline
On: Sky News
Time: 19:30 to 20:00 (Also Sat 0130)
Fighting the war against climate change, they live on the world's highest, driest and coldest continent. Sky's Emma Hurd visits the scientists working amid the ice floes of the Antarctic.
Friday 25th December
Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
On: more4
Time: 19:00 to 20:00
In this final lecture, Professor Hartley asks what has gone wrong when herbivores get the upper hand and strip plants bare. Sometimes "outbreaks" of herbivores devastate our forests and crops: why have plant defences failed? Will climate change compromise the abilities of plants, including our crops, to defend themselves? Will pest outbreaks become more common in the future as plant defences weaken? Will alien species invade? Professor Hartley explores whether climate change will upset the balance in the arms race between plants and herbivores. Will global food production be threatened by new pests and diseases and what we can do about these threats? What are the weapons of the future as we try and protect the world's food supply and its natural resources against climate change?
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