24 Hours of Climate Reality - Watch It
Posted on 15 November 2012 by dana1981
The Climate Reality Project has a 24-hour show subtitled The Dirty Weather Report streaming online on November 14th and 15th. The first few hours have been pretty interesting. For exaple, I just learned that a few weeks ago, the Mexican congress almost unanimously passed ambitious climate legislation, and over 90% of Costa Rica's electricity now comes from renewable sources (while its economy has grown rapidly).

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In the final hour or so of transmission, I did manage to find a hidden click-button-thingy which allowed me to watch in low-definition. So the whole experience became bearable.
But I am now trying to watch the Arctic segment, which apparently doesn't have a "low" option, and it seems that I must spend 2 1/2 hours on this, to watch one hour, with a pattern of 5 seconds of dialogue - 10 seconds pause - 5 seconds dialogue - 10 seconds pause.
Could they not set the default setting to "low"? (Or at least offer an lo-def option for the non-live, catch-up mode of viewing?) Setting them to "high" virtually excludes everybody who is 1. only just computer literate 2. not on superfast broadband.
But I suppose that's just the 99%. Still, the presenter's dress looks really good in high-definition, and I get loads of freeze-frames to examine this at my leisure.
Leaving this here as I suppose that you are in contact with them, having been so widely quoted in the "reality drops" site. Have a word, will you?
That's better than his 24 hr network Current TV (It's for sale if anybody is interested) gets. I tried watching some of both (Gore & Watts) & couldn't stay interested. I guess it's an acquired taste.