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7 December 2011
Discovery Channel agrees to air ALL of Frozen Planet
I received an email, here at the AGU in San Francisco today, that the Discovery Channel will air all 7 parts of Frozen Planet. This will include part 7 on climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic. Apparently, a petition with 80,000 signatures did the trick! (TV channels hate to be embarrassed by their decisions, both local affiliates and cable networks.) Here at the AGU conference, I met Dr. Richard …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.