‘Climate Change’ - programme three of the series ‘The Investigators’ will air tonight on 20 November on RTE One at 11.05pm.
Series 2 of ‘The Investigators’ is comprised of 6 x 30 min factual episodes for RTÉ One. As with Series One, it is a non-studio based factually informative show aimed at the general viewer. Though international in scope it will focus specifically on Ireland’s scientific contribution to the world.
Shot and directed by Ciarán O’Connor and voiced by Doireann Ni Briain this is a look into the work of some of the top scientific minds in the country. Each week will focus on a specific area of life on which the Investigators are concentrating.
The subjects are: Ireland in Space, Ageing, Sensors, Climate Change, Crops of the Future and the Nano Revolution.
This weeks programme ‘Climate Change’ will focus on the techniques used to represent the physical drivers of climate change as used by the UCD Meteorology and Climate Centre and the Irish Centre for High End Computing, with researchers are looking at Ireland’s relationship with the sun and the seas and what the possible results of existing climate change may bring. Viewers will also see the work of glaciologists Paul Dunlop and Sara Benetti who are carrying out investigations into clues left by Ireland’s last ice age that may yield clues as to what will happen when the last two remaining ice sheets (Greenland and Antarctica) melt. The programme follow them as they head out to the far shores of Irish waters and drop a drilling core into the sea bed to take samples and analyse the results.
Director and DOP of ‘Climate Change’ and rest of the series is Ciaran O'Connor while Nuala Cunnigham is series producer. The series was shot from July - November of this year. Filming locations for ‘Climate Change’ included Dublin, Clonmel, Galway, Coleraine and Reading. Locations for rest of series include: Cork, Carlow, Wicklow, Madrid and Oxford.
