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Description: In a special broadcast event, National Geographic explores the startling theory that Earths average temperature could rise six degrees Celsius by the year 2100. In this amazing and insightful documentary, National Geographic illustrates, one poignant degree at a time, the consequences of rising temperatures on Earth. Also, learn how existing technologies and remedies can help in the battle to dial back the global thermometer.Amazon.com: In the 2004 eco-thriller The Day After Tomorrow, director Roland Emmerich dramatized the potential consequences of accelerated global warming. By combining stock footage with computer-generated imagery, the National Geographic special Six Degrees Could Change the World serves as a sort of nonfiction counterpoint. As NASA climate scientist James Hansen cautions, even two degrees Celsius represents a tipping point (from which there is no return). Based on Mark Lynas's Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet and narrated by Alec Baldwin, the program roams from the bushfire-ravaged suburbs of Southern Australia to the drought-stricken farmlands of Nebraska to the rapidly melting glaciers of Greenland. In the process, aerospace engineers, marine biologists, and ordinary citizens share their experiences and predictions. In the end, it's the actual events--rather than the speculative scenarios--that prove most alarming, like the 30,000 deaths that resulted from 2003's European heat wave. While a skeptic might dismiss that tragedy as a statistical anomaly, every continent bears the scars of climate change, like the deforestation of the Amazon and the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. In order to inject some levity, Six Degrees detours to look at a British grape grower who has actually benefited from his country's drier environment and the carbon footprint involved in the creation of that all-American favorite, the cheeseburger (suffice to say, it's considerable). While some of the special effects are hokey--Hansen sitting at a floating desk, for example--the preponderance of compelling data helps to compensate for such lapses. --Kathleen C. Fennessy Also of Interest 
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- Move to China or Russia if you think Socialism is good: so·cial·ism
-noun
1. a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
2. procedure or practice in accordance with this theory.
3. (in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.
Yeah. Socialism sounds great. I love how liberals like you, Ryan Hance, automatically discredit anyone that doesn't agree with you by calling them a Bush supporter and an idiot. That tactic is rather fascistic, isn't it? You don't have to provide any intelligent arguments of your own because you've used political misdirection to focus negativity on one person while attempting to make yourself look reasonable at the same time.
Why don't you get out of this country, give everything you own to the state and spend the rest of your communist life toiling away for the grand rewards that it provides. I'm not a Bush supporter, but I'm getting sick of our soldiers fighting and dying to provide you the freedom to spout your idiotic alarmist nonsense.
You're obviously not old enough to remember all the "Al Gores" in the seventies screaming about us heading into another ice age. If you bother to look, you'll find that carbon amounts follow global warming cycles, not precede them and most likely, not cause them.
Please, please, move to a socialist state and enjoy. Cuba is very nice, I hear. - Good Entertainment: This program a well edited and visually well executed. It makes for good entertainment. The points made in the film are speculation and not solid science, but this is understandable as the film is based on a book authored by Mark Lynas, who has a formal education in history and politics. His interpretation of statistical climate models is simplistic at best as would be to the lay person.
Overall good viewing to be had if your not a skeptic and uninterested in an unbiased and objective discussion on climate change. - informative but questionable: I think a break down of the ratings speak for themselve a bit.
One person put a 1 because they found it offensive(perhaps they don't like the idea of spending money to find an alternative to dumping their company's waste in the river.)
The other person put a 5 (perhaps they bought everything this propa-documentary said and hate selfish people that are too profit motivated or believe everything the powers that be try to sell them.)
Well I thought it was informative. But I also noticed some things that attempted to manipulated the viewers thoughts and opinions, like showing the nuclear plant's exhaust while talking about carbon dioxide and fossil fuels. That exhaust is water vapor from cooling towers, not smoke plumes.
Same with the catasrophic weather and katrina. Yes it was a catasrophic storm, but a lot of the suffering in N.O. was partly to blame on gross negligence of the powers that be.
I did notice it had high production values. Which is also what annoyed me with the manipulative information. If you are going to invest that much time and money into a film why do you have to shape the truth? Can't we ever get documentaries that are only moderately biased so that we can decide for ourselves? These films just fall on deaf ears to some and make others look like tin foil hat wearers. Integrity was compromised.
I still learned a lot however.
- Very good film about an important topic.: I needed to put in a review to counteract the previous "Bush supporter" review. I'm not sure if his IQ is breaks double digits, so I would disregard it. I saw this show on National Geographic HD and it was very well produced and informative. It basically shows how the world would be affected by a 1,2,3,4,5 and 6 degree rise in temperature. I would recommend this to those of us that care about our surroundings.
By the way, socialism isn't bad. Look up the word in the dictionary.
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