Years of Living Dangerously

Years of Living Dangerously is an American documentary television series focusing on global warming. The first season, of nine weekly episodes, premiered in the US on April 13, 2014, on Showtime. It won an Emmy Award as Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. The second season, consisting of eight episodes, is expected to air on the National Geographic Channel, beginning on October 30, 2016, with broader international distribution than the first season. Executive producers include James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Palumbo, and series creators Joel Bach and David Gelber (formerly of 60 Minutes). Joseph Romm and Heidi Cullen are the chief science advisors.

The weekly episodes feature celebrity investigators with a history of environmental activism and well-known journalists with a background in environmental reportage. These "correspondents" travel the world and throughout the U.S. to interview experts and ordinary people affected by, and seeking solutions to, the effects of global warming. They act as proxies for the audience, asking questions to find out people's opinions and to discover the scientific evidence. The final episode of season one featured an interview of President Barack Obama. Executive producers for season one were Cameron, Schwarzenegger, clean energy investor and environmental activist Daniel Abbasi, Jerry Weintraub, Bach and Gelber.

Season 2 explored the effects of rising sea levels, historic droughts and the rapidly increasing extinction rate of species, but also focused more "on solutions that individuals, communities, companies and even governments can use to address worldwide climate change", including cheaper solar and wind energy, advancing battery technology and electric cars. Returning hosts for season 2 included Schwarzenegger, Ian Somerhalder, America Ferrera, Thomas Friedman and Don Cheadle, and newcomers David Letterman, Gisele Bündchen, Jack Black, Cameron, Joshua Jackson, Aasif Mandvi, Cecily Strong, Sigourney Weaver, Bradley Whitford, Nikki Reed and Ty Burrell.

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