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Were doomed! Were all going to die. Its a fact, and whatever we do driving rubbish cars (not my Picasso, surely) and eating the plastic wrapper that comes with your Mars theres nothing we can do about it. Even Al Gores efforts will be futile.
Ive been watching the BBC series, Earth: The Power of the Planet with Dr Iain Stewart.
Its taken four and a half billion years and several great catastrophes, including another Earth hitting ours, to turn our planet from a barren rock to the apparently very rare (some say unique), place we know today.
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Earth: The Power of the Planet, showing November 20th on BBC 2 at 9:00pm
There's been a big thumbs-up from the critics for this opening episode of a new five-part documentary series which traces the origins of our planet. Apart from the fact that its presenter, lecturer Dr Iain Stewart, is somewhat irritating, OTT and shouts a great deal, the programme has been praised for taking what could be a rather drab subject - rocks - and turning them into tantalising TV.
Tonight Stewart focuses on volcanoes. Far removed from the feared and destructive image they have, he explains how no other force has played a more important role in creating the planet today.
The heat that fuels volcanoes also drives some of the most fundamental processes on the planet. In Rotorua, New Zealand, Stewart shows how volcanoes have played a critical role in keeping the planet habitable by providing a natural form of global warming, and how they saved the planet from one of the greatest disasters it has ever faced - "Snowball Earth".
Highly recommended.

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 As a man on a mission to make geology sexy, Dr Iain Stewart isn't doing too badly. Far from hiding away in the dusty confines of academia, the Scottish-born scientist is fast becoming the poster boy for geo-chic, tagged as the "thinking women's crumpet" and amassing an adoring legion of female fans. Googling his name brings up one website where a group of besotted ladies announce their love for him.

His new TV series, Earth: The Power of the Planet, will see Stewart combine geology with high-octane adventure. The show charts the story of the planet from its birth 4.5 billion years ago, covering the major events that have shaped Earth's history and allowed life to bloom. Stewart travelled to some of the most remote areas of the planet for the five-part series, abseiling into a lava lake in Ethiopia and cave-diving in underwater caverns in Mexico. He will also show how volcanoes saved the planet, how a rainstorm lasted for thousands of years and how the swamp lakes of Siberia are key to global warming.

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 Earth: The Power of the Planet starts on BBC2 on November 20 at 9pm.

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