Man on Earth. Channel 4 Tonight at 9pm

[Deep Sea Isopod]

A new docu series starts Tonight 9pm on C4.

Tony Robinson examines how changes in climate have affected humans throughout history and asks what we can learn as we face our own climate crisis today


http://www.channel4.com/programmes/man- ... /episode-1


Episode 1
Tony Robinson explores how a small group of our earliest African ancestors were rescued from extinction by the last great global warming 130,000 years ago. The barren landscape surrounding the oases in which they lived was transformed to lush savannah, enabling them to traverse the continent and eventually make it to Europe.

As temperatures rose, so they would also later fall: in the Russia steppes Dr Joy Singarayer finds out how the European Homo Sapiens adapted to survive the last great Ice Age.

But not all humans coped so well. In Gibraltar, Tony finds the last resting place of our Neanderthal 'cousins'. Lacking our 'social brains', which enabled us to trade and get help from outsiders, the Neanderthals starved, dying out in lonely communities, and even resorting to cannibalism.

This looks quite interesting.

[Deep Sea Isopod]

Part 2 just starting.

[klr]

Part 2 just starting.

Bugger, I missed part one.

[Deep Sea Isopod]

Part 2 just starting.

Bugger, I missed part one.

part 1's on 4oD
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/man- ... od#3012672

[klr]

Part 2 just starting.

Bugger, I missed part one.

part 1's on 4oD
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/man- ... od#3012672

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Part 2 just starting.

Bugger, I missed part one.

part 1's on 4oD
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/man- ... od#3012672

Bastards.

[klr]

Part 2 just starting.

Bugger, I missed part one.

part 1's on 4oD
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/man- ... od#3012672

Bastards.

Go off and piss on a few more Marines then.

[Deep Sea Isopod]

Bastards.

Here's what yer missing on part 2

Tony Robinson traces how global warming at the end of the last Ice Age was the catalyst for the dawn of civilisation, but also unleashed devastation.

Twelve thousand years ago our planet emerged from the last great Ice Age, with temperatures rising by five degrees in just a few decades. After 190,000 years living as nomadic hunter-gatherers, our ancestors were forced to change with the world around them.

In Europe the rise in temperature unleashed an agricultural revolution, while in North Africa around 7,000 years ago a savage drought led Saharan refugees to settle along the River Nile. In the limited space they had to learn new skills and form new social structures, going on to found the Kingdom of Egypt.

Five hundred years later this same global warming triggered catastrophe as Canadian ice sheets containing 900,000 trillion tonnes of water melted into the Atlantic, causing massive flooding. In less than a year Britain was amputated from mainland Europe, and the Black Sea was formed, washing out the pioneer farmers from that region. What happened to the people that had cultivated this fertile land changed the future of the continent.

[Deep Sea Isopod]

Gawd, I've found part 1 streaming on Megavideo
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=4C0R8086

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Gawd, I've found part 1 streaming on Megavideo
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=4C0R8086

Sweet!