The Climate Chronicles18 Feb 2025

Episode 7: Avoiding the Apocalypse

Created, narrated, and produced by Professor Dagomar Degroot of Georgetown University, The Climate Chronicles reveals how climate change has shaped humanity’s past, and explores what history can tell us about the future of global warming. With clear, dramatic storytelling, each episode brings history to life through vivid storytelling and cutting-edge science.

In the first episode of our second season, Escaping the Pleistocene, Professor Degroot describes the two biggest explosions in human history: the catastrophic eruptions of the Los Chocoyos and Toba super volcanoes, about 75,000 years ago. These cataclysmic blasts chilled the Earth, but recent research suggests that, against all odds, most of our ancestors survived unscathed. How is that possible? And where does the idea of a volcanic near-apocalypse come from? This episode explores those questions, and more.

Season two of The Climate Chronicles is an immersive journey through the extreme climate shifts that influenced some of the most important events in the history of our species, from a wave of extinctions that transformed ecosystems around the world to the emergence of agriculture. The season also explores the history of the sciences that have revealed how climate change shaped our deep past.

For an episode trailer and a transcript complete with maps, graphs, and other images, visit TheClimateChronicles.com.

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