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Climate change multimedia
 

These animations, videos, images and graphics may be used free of charge for non-commercial applications in the pursuit of promoting or explaining forests' role in climate change. Please acknowledge the Forestry Commission as source in any usage.

Video file sizes are typically Flash 1-4 Mb; WMV(1024x570) 1-14Mb; WMV (1280x720) 7-33Mb; graphics - various sizes.

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Earth

Convenient truth introduction

HIghlights the major global impacts of our changing climate.

Animation: 46 seconds Preview

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Tree with labels

 

Blueprint and climate change tree

Full sequence: we asked our engineers and scientists to develop a machine that soaks up carbon from the atmosphere. a device that would lock up CO2 for potentially quite a long time. It would have to be environmentally friendly, efficient, reliable, easy and cheap to produce. This is what they came up with.

Animation: 31 seconds Preview

Graphic 1 - Tree, coloured with labels (Jpg 1024x570)

Graphic 2 - Tree, blue with labels (Jpg 1024x570)

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Photosynthesis

Carbon Sequestration

Animation showing process of carbon sequestration of trees through their lifecycle.

Animation: 53 seconds Preview

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The whole carbon cycle

Showing the six main global reservoirs of carbon. The boxed numbers are the sizes of the reservoirs in 1012 kg.

Animation: 10 seconds

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Oil CO2 Emissions

Carbon stored in forest ecosystems

Compared to remaining oil reserves and the atmosphere itself.

Source: FAO Global Forest Resources Asessment, 2000

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Tonnes of carbon

Decline in the world's forest cover over 8,000 years.

Shows 50% cover 8,000 years ago reducing to 30% today. Since 1850 deforestation has released 120,000,000 tonnes of crabon into the atmosphere.

Source: Houghton

Animation: 19 seconds Preview

Graphic 1 - 8000 years ago (Jpg 1024x570)

Graphic 2 - Today (Jpg 1024x570)

Graphic 3 - Carbon released (Jpg 1024x570)

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UK woodland area timeline

Forest decline and recovery in Britain

Map starting at from 6000BC and ending at present.

Animation: 26 seconds Preview

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Global deforestation

Reforestation in Europe

Reforeststin Europe over 15 years equals amount of forest loss globally every year.

Source: FAO State of the World's Forests, 2007

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Map of deforestation

Forest area changes

By world region - 2000-2005.

Source: FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment

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Emissions piechart

CO2 emissions by sector.

Pie chart shows comparisons with power, industry, transport, and agriculture.

Source: Stern Review, from data drawn from World Resources Institute Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT)

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Substitution

Wood substitution

Replacing one tonne of concrete or red brick with the same volume of timber can save around one tonne of CO2.

Source: Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Management Report 196, Carbon benefits of Timber in Construction, 2006

Animation: 27 seconds Preview

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Winter rain

UK predicted weather changes

Weather map for 30-40 years time.

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Oak woodland suitability map

Predicted decline in suitabile sites for oak woodlands

Map for Britain from 2007 through to 2080.

Animation: 42 seconds Preview

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Plan ahead

Six points for action

Protect and manage what we have; reduce deforestation; restore more forest cover;use more wood for fuel; use it in place of other materials; and plan ahead to adapt.

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Woodfuel - energy that grows on trees video

Woodfuel

Energy that grows on trees video. An introduction to the use of wood as a sustainable source of renewable energy.

Video: 14 minutes

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Illustration of the greenhouse effect

Greenhouse effect

The diagram shows the fate of the solar energy received by the Earth. Some of the energy is reflected straight back into space, and some is absorbed by the Earth’s surface (1). As the surface of the Earth warms, the atmosphere in turn becomes warmer as it is heated by convection and the emission of infrared radiation. Gases that occur naturally in the atmosphere absorb some of this radiation (2) and it is returned back to the Earth’s surface warming it still further.

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Climate change tree graphic

Climate change tree - no labels.

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