Act On CO2
http://actonco2.direct.gov.uk/
This short film shows how energy use in your home creates CO2 emissions, and how we can all reduce our emissions to help tackle climate change.
Description of the film (transcript)
Open on an out of focus red flickering light that fills most of the screen. The camera pulls back and focuses to reveal the flickering light charger. The charger seems to pulse as if there is an internal energy trying to burst out.
The camera pulls back further and then takes off on a journey around a modern home picking up examples of energy wastage in the home.
We see it pass through the kitchen, then through a utility room and past the washing machine. As the camera finds all of these examples of energy wastage, each appliance appears to pulse with an internal energy trying to escape.
The camera passes through the living room and finds a TV then it moves and finds the flame of the boiler, then follows to the boiler and a hot tap leaking out hot water. It continues through a bedroom where more appliances are throbbing with energy. Then it goes through another bedroom, looks like a child’s with TV and computer console on.
Then the camera pans through the house and see various other switches left on and the heating, then follows the energy stream as it first journeys through some circuit boards and then joins the electricity main, which leads from the house.
Voice over:
‘Energy-dependent home appliances are part of our modern way of life. Most of the energy they use comes from burning gas, oil and coal, which emit carbon dioxide - CO2 - into the atmosphere, changing the planet’s climate.’
The camera cuts higher and higher as we see each street and then each district of a town combine their energy streams and one stream shoots off across the countryside until we reach a power station where (animated) CO2 is belching in to the atmosphere.
Voice over:
‘We also waste large amounts of energy unnecessarily, which only increases CO2 emissions affecting the climate even further.’
The camera keeps going higher revealing eventually seeing the Earth from space. But instead of the beautiful, blue planet we are used to seeing it is enveloped in (animated) CO2 making it take on a ‘reddish’ hue. The Earth almost seems to pulse as all the appliances have before it.
The ‘reddish’ Earth mixes through to the flickering red light of the charger in the opening shot. As the camera pulls back again, a hand reaches in and turns off the switch.
Voice over:
‘We are now producing more C02 than the world can cope with.’
We then see a series of shots as the energy wastage shown in the first sequence is dealt with. As each appliance is dealt with it stops pulsing.
Series of shots: TV being switched off, plug socket switched off, tap turned off to stop the leaking hot water, heating turned down, mobile phone charger being switched off - we then see energy efficient light bulb, loft installation, street scene.
Voice over:
‘We can only tackle climate change, if we all act, now — together — by using and wasting less energy and therefore, reduce the CO2 emissions we are each responsible for.’
We end to see parents walking their children and cyclists on the street with no cars. We track past solar panels on the roofs of houses and see the wind turbines in the background. Ends with earth from space back to the way we are used to seeing it - as a beautiful, blue planet.
Duration : 0:2:1
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@Wilson1221:
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@Wilson1221:
ABSOLUTELY =D!
And it was actually 500 years lag, but your argument is still valid! TEMPERATURE causes Co2 to change, NOT the other way!!!!!
Also, interesting, C02 levels have been observed 3x-10x higher than the current max - with NO impact on the global climate!!!
The question of “HOW” they think our Co2 producing is enough to change the climate has NEVER BEEN ANSWERED!!!
Think : you’re being told to stop buying Co2 products, with a HOLE in their MEDIA ARGUMENT!!!!!!
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The …
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The question of “WHY” Co2 has been proven to increase global temperatures has never been answered.
Historically, Co2 lags 500 years AFTER temperature change (Al Gore was actually wrong on this).
Furthermore, Co2 has been oddly observed historically 3x-10x HIGHER than its current peak, with no effect on the global climate.
Water vapor is the most impactful GreenHouse Gas.
Check your facts - Think: what are the agendas of the companies that produce these adds? Careful whom you trust
there was an advert …
there was an advert before this one witch was similar but the music was sooooooo much better and i can’t find it x.x!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the music is just …
the music is just brilliant. It sounds like John Adams, presumably “Klinghoffer’s Death”, but I’m not sure… would like to know it too
good advert
good advert
If we carry in …
If we carry in wasting Electricity in 20 years the ice age would strike again!
EIA source
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EIA source
Emissions in Millions tons of CO2
UK
2005: 585Mt
2006: 586Mtt
increase of 1Mt in a year
China
2005: 5429Mt
2006: 6017Mt
increase of 6017-5429=588Mt.
As much as the UK emits in a year. And they say we can do something about CO2 emissions and waste money with that annoying advert? Get real, it’s like trying to kill a bull with grain of rice. There’s nothing that can be done, nothing.
april fools…
april fools…
People Cmon Why …
People Cmon Why Waste Energy Plz We Want To See The Futer Better things plz dont kill this earth by wasting energy The Sun Is Getting Hotter Adn Hotter Soon it Will Blow this Eath To Save Energy just take a look out the window u cont see it but its killing this earth now plz reduce co2 saver energy
what happened its …
what happened its all upside down
Easy! I cant …
Easy! I cant remember to be honest. I think I wrote somthing which I thought was right but after I realised I wasnt.
You like that huh? Yeah its pretty funny, glad you liked it!
What was the …
What was the comment you removed?
By the way that pole dance thing was too funny!
When you’re IN the …
When you’re IN the room you can turn the lights off, it doesn’t matter… your in the dark anyway… (that’s just a joke) GLOBAL WARMING IS NOT MAN MADE! The Sun is getting Hotter, It is way more culprit, powerful, unpredictable if you will, than all the people on our tiny planet. if you want to really help the Government, tell everyone to stop breathing… the Elite would love that… and if not, pay your Taxes on AIR NOW! I can barely pay the taxes they hit me with now.
Peace and God Bless!
Make sure to run …
Make sure to run all appliances next Earth day as an act of defiance!
Cobblers just a …
Cobblers just a guilt trip to screw more money out of people. Yes it is too make you feel bad for breathing you put faith in the government lol.
The commercials are …
The commercials are saying we are the cause. We need to be on solar and wind and that is free. Fund them, to build wind farms and solar farms, WE still pay them for what they now get free and everyone is happy… I say we own our own, get our power for nothing, while going green… I know you agree with that… it’s just how do we get past the greedy control freaks… I even heard a story about a man collecting rain water for washing the cars he serviced and they find him…Peace and God Bless
Actually you are …
Actually you are wrong, in the 1940’s when electrical appliances first started being used there is a dip in temperature that lasted until the en of the 70’s if you recall their was the big arguement about global cooling at the time. Co2 emmissions dont actually contribute to climate change, all evidence points in the direction of the sun and there are alot of reputable scientist’s that are top of thier field that agree with this. Dont believe me though look into it yourself!
Actually a volcanos …
Actually a volcanos do produce more co2 than humans, but then again so does the ocean.
Im not argueing …
Im not argueing where co2 comes from, I’m not even saying that climate change is due to co2. What I am saying is that we do need to take responibility for the amount of fossil fuel that is wasted and if we can help reduce it then we should do what is in our power. If you want to rattle of about tax when I never even mentioned and new world orders well thats your choice. I’m just simply saying if we have the power to switch a light off and reduce our eletricity bill at the same time, why not?
I need you to look …
I need you to look up in the FN sky in the day, look for the bright ball in the sky (know doubt you’ve done that too long) anyway, it’s really hot and it heats things up… this isn’t MAN MADE do you really believe that Volcanoes, Bombs, and Jet air planes compare to us BREATHING. Nature is not on our little schedule and is EVER Changing! just like the rest of the Universe But hey Breathing is MY God given Right and I will not pay a CO2 Tax… you can!
CO2 (Carbon Dioxide …
CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) is NOT what comes out of the tailpipe of your car… it comes out of your mouth when you breath out… Plants breath it… don’t be stupid! CO or (Carbon Monoxide) is what comes out of your car THEY (your government =Global Elite ) want to TAX you for being on THEIR Planet THEY think they are entitled because they are so much better.
Spandexius Maximus you need to WAKE UP before you.
anywhere! To be …
anywhere! To be honest for me the core of the arguement is in the what if, what if it is real? what then? ultimately being conscious about the amount of eletricity, gas and petrol we use in any scenario cant be a bad thing, it can only benefit us in the price of our bill’s and quality of life.
No its not meant to …
No its not meant to make you feel bad for breathing its to make you aware that the first step to facing climate change is not going to happen by goverments but needs to come from us. The ad is just trying to build awareness, of course their are going to be skeptics but thats the point, to bring the discussion to the front of the que so we can stop taking thongs for granted! I remember about 15 years ago the same debates where happening over cfc gasses and now look you cant find that stuff…
there are numerous …
there are numerous evidence from numerous scientists that prove CO2 is causing the temperature to rise.
The temperature has risen 5 degrees in the past 40 years before that no electric items emitted CO2 and after that period the temperature started to rise when more objects started producing co2.
He is on the …
He is on the Climate Change advert!