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Peter Sinclair - independent videographer specializing in energy and climate change and located in Midland Michigan
The lake bed: youtube.com/watch?v=Wa7tacsTLK0
Peter's article: washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/05/27/michigan-dam-failure-shows-midwests-growing-vulnerability-climate-change
Peter Sinclair is a Michigan based videographer specializing in Energy and Environment issues. He produces the video series "This is Not Cool", for Yale Climate Connections.
yaleclimateconnections.org/author/psinclair
Mr Sinclair is also Media Director of The Dark Snow Project, an international crowd-funded science and communication focusing on climate change and climate solutions.
A frequent speaker, Mr Sinclair is a passionate advocate of renewable energy development, and brings his rich multi-media presentations to schools, colleges, universities and community groups throughout Michigan and around the world - including major universities, and invited presentations at the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, and Colorado.
Mr Sinclair was named 2017 “Friend of the Planet” by the National Center for Science Education, who called him "The most important videographer on the planet."
Questions Asked and Answered:
1. What caused the flood?
2. Why was that dam there?
3. What is the future of dams?
4. Did the current stay-at-home order in any way related to the event?
5 .Was this inevitable?
6. Is this the first recent flood of this sort, worldwide?
7. What is the proper "ownership" of dams? The ones above, the ones below, etc.
8. What will be the unexpected and unintended fallout both upstream and downstream?
9. What caused the flood?
Background:
This is, of course, meant to be a general answer to a general question, and more specifically regarding rivers, and more specifically still, regarding dams. The dam upstream from Peter failed a few days ago after a climate forced extreme rain event; but that is only part of the story. For a much bigger understanding of "What Caused the Flood?" Watch the video, only about 35-minutes, it is entirely engrossing
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About Peter Sinclair
Peter Sinclair from Midland, Michigan (born 1953), is an environmental activist whose focus is on climate change. He is a YouTube blogger, explorer and founder of the ClimateCrocks.com website. Together with climate researchers he's traveled to hot spots of climate change, for instance to Greenland as part of the Dark Snow Project.Sinclair is perhaps best known for producing the Climate Denial Crock of the Week series on his YouTube channel. In 2012, he launched another YouTube series, entitled This is not Cool, for the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.
Sinclair is the son of Mary P. Sinclair, He lives in Midland with his wife, Sandy, a teacher, and has stated that his concern about global warming results from concerns about the future of his children. He graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
Sinclair has given a number of public speeches on climate change, such as one on January 23, 2013 at Michigan State University entitled The Ultimate Injustice. Sinclair gave another talk at the Ross School of Business on September 11, 2013, co-sponsored by the Erb Institute. The talk was entitled Communicating Climate Science in the Disinformation Era.
For his videos, Sinclair regularly interviews climate scientists. He has also interviewed Marc Morano at the 2012 International Conference on Climate Change. Later that year, his video "Welcome to the Rest of Our Lives" was featured in Mother Jones. In January 2014, he posted an interview with Jeff Masters of Weather Underground addressing arguments about cold temperatures disproving global warming, which was covered by the National Journal.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sinclair_(environmental_activist)
climatecrocks.com
youtube.com/watch?v=dLWDY-L2tA8
greenmanstudio.com
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Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help humans to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can thrive, no matter what the future holds.
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lifeishnowish.blogspot.com
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Peter Sinclair - independent videographer specializing in energy and climate change and located in Midland Michigan
The lake bed: youtube.com/watch?v=Wa7tacsTLK0
Peter's article: washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/05/27/michigan-dam-failure-shows-midwests-growing-vulnerability-climate-change
Peter Sinclair is a Michigan based videographer specializing in Energy and Environment issues. He produces the video series "This is Not Cool", for Yale Climate Connections.
yaleclimateconnections.org/author/psinclair
Mr Sinclair is also Media Director of The Dark Snow Project, an international crowd-funded science and communication focusing on climate change and climate solutions.
A frequent speaker, Mr Sinclair is a passionate advocate of renewable energy development, and brings his rich multi-media presentations to schools, colleges, universities and community groups throughout Michigan and around the world - including major universities, and invited presentations at the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, and Colorado.
Mr Sinclair was named 2017 “Friend of the Planet” by the National Center for Science Education, who called him "The most important videographer on the planet."
Questions Asked and Answered:
1. What caused the flood?
2. Why was that dam there?
3. What is the future of dams?
4. Did the current stay-at-home order in any way related to the event?
5 .Was this inevitable?
6. Is this the first recent flood of this sort, worldwide?
7. What is the proper "ownership" of dams? The ones above, the ones below, etc.
8. What will be the unexpected and unintended fallout both upstream and downstream?
9. What caused the flood?
Background:
This is, of course, meant to be a general answer to a general question, and more specifically regarding rivers, and more specifically still, regarding dams. The dam upstream from Peter failed a few days ago after a climate forced extreme rain event; but that is only part of the story. For a much bigger understanding of "What Caused the Flood?" Watch the video, only about 35-minutes, it is entirely engrossing
*****
If you appreciate that this was shared, then please express your thanks by:
1. thumbs up,
2. comment: open ended question(s); and/or thoughts or reflections,
3. subscribe,
4. ring bell for notifications,
5. sign up for email alerts,
6. thumbs up insightful comments, and comment if you have an added thought,
7. save to one or more playlists,
8. share with those you know, either on this site, or others, or via other means.
About Peter Sinclair
Peter Sinclair from Midland, Michigan (born 1953), is an environmental activist whose focus is on climate change. He is a YouTube blogger, explorer and founder of the ClimateCrocks.com website. Together with climate researchers he's traveled to hot spots of climate change, for instance to Greenland as part of the Dark Snow Project.Sinclair is perhaps best known for producing the Climate Denial Crock of the Week series on his YouTube channel. In 2012, he launched another YouTube series, entitled This is not Cool, for the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.
Sinclair is the son of Mary P. Sinclair, He lives in Midland with his wife, Sandy, a teacher, and has stated that his concern about global warming results from concerns about the future of his children. He graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
Sinclair has given a number of public speeches on climate change, such as one on January 23, 2013 at Michigan State University entitled The Ultimate Injustice. Sinclair gave another talk at the Ross School of Business on September 11, 2013, co-sponsored by the Erb Institute. The talk was entitled Communicating Climate Science in the Disinformation Era.
For his videos, Sinclair regularly interviews climate scientists. He has also interviewed Marc Morano at the 2012 International Conference on Climate Change. Later that year, his video "Welcome to the Rest of Our Lives" was featured in Mother Jones. In January 2014, he posted an interview with Jeff Masters of Weather Underground addressing arguments about cold temperatures disproving global warming, which was covered by the National Journal.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sinclair_(environmental_activist)
climatecrocks.com
youtube.com/watch?v=dLWDY-L2tA8
greenmanstudio.com
About Aaron Wissner
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help humans to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can thrive, no matter what the future holds.
Some Works by Aaron Wissner
aaronwissner.com
facebook.com/aaron.wissner.9
youtube.com/user/newculture
lifeishnowish.blogspot.com
Streamed Live to the World Wide Web: 202005261500 UTC © Copyright 2020 Aaron Wayne Wissner, All Rights Reserved
