Tagtäglich scheint die Sonne auf unseren Planeten und erwärmt die Erde, die Luft und das Wasser. Die Luft und das Wasser werden durch Winde und Meeresströmungen unablässig um den ganzen Erdball bewegt. So entsteht auf unserer Erde ein Klima, in dem Pflanzen, Tiere und Menschen leben können. Doch: Was ist Klima? Und was ist eigentlich der Unterschied zum Wetter? Und welche Aufgaben haben Meteorologen oder Klimaforscher?
10,000 B.C. was a time of cataclysmic change on Earth. Extreme climactic fluctuations hurled the planet into a minor ice age; megafauna like the saber-toothed tiger and woolly mammoth were suddenly becoming extinct; and early humans began to inhabit North America.
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis.
Immortalized in the world of improv comedy, Second City veterans TJ Jagodowksi and David Pasquesi explore the unique partnership and transcendental forces that govern their legendary performances.
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up.