HEAVY WEATHER begins with the assumption that climate change is really happening and that human activity plays a major role in our changing climate. These assumptions are shared by every reputable scientist on the earth. HEAVY WEATHER'S producer believes that it is too late to spend anymore time arguing with climate change naysayers. There is barely sufficient time to turn around the climate impacts of escalating greenhouse emissions that we continue to pump into the atmosphere.
Yet this documentary takes a hopeful approach, that it is not too late to change attitudes and perspectives that have created this crisis. And that if we have the will to make political and social changes that matter, and look critically at the root causes of the problems that climate change is forcing us to confront, we will actually be creating a better life for ourselves and future generations.
Let's end this journal with two emails that I received right after sending out an announcement for the documentary's broadcast. I was surprised by the exasperation expressed in the first email, until I read the second one, moments later.
First, from Kathleen Sayce, an ecologist based in Ilwaco, Washington, who is featured in HEAVY WEATHER:
Second, from Lars Larsen, a conservative talk show host in Portland:
