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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0727994752837 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: National Geographic Video Languages: Manufacturer: National Geographic Video MPN: WARDG36970D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: National Geographic Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: April 08, 2008 Running Time: 90 minutes Studio: National Geographic Video Theatrical Release Date: 2007 Editorial Review: Product Description: Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 04/08/2008 Run time: 90 minutes 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
Stills from Six Degrees Could Change the World (click for larger image)
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 Rating:  - Very depressing...Don't just change your light bulbs. Don't just recycle. You have to stop using oil, you have to stop eating hamburgers, you have to stop cutting down trees. Not tomorrow, not next year, right now. The idea is not just to save money, which we would, and also save nature, which we would, but we have to save ourselves. We have to change the way we live. We have to get away from plastics, coal burning, roads, cities, and beef. To just name a few things. In other words, we're pretty much doomed. ... Read More Rating: - Right on the mark.This documentary was much better than a companion in the same series by National Geographic. It explored a quickly approaching future, a task that sometimes can be daunting when working with climate change. While I'm sure they left many things out of the documentary, because you can't possibly cover every nuance of climate change in an hour and a half, the key points were made about the environmental expectations overall. In addition, the documentary made the point to make sure the audience ... Read More Rating: - Simply excellentAlarming information, an excellent documentary. Terrific production value, presents good information, easy to watch. Perfect for schools, families... this impacts us all. A Must see. Rating:  - Informational but a little boringThe video has some very good, researched information, but it wasn't as thrilling as Planet Earth. It is still a very good video though and I learned a lot. Rating:  - The ultimate alarmist's exaggeration, based on "what if" scenarios the latest IPCC's 2007 Report no longer supportsI just can believe a reputable source as National Geographic supported this documentary. This is the kind of message that only helps to increase the distrust and more undesirable controversy regarding the theory of man-made global warming, and exaggerations not based on sound science only serve to provide ammunition for the radicals in the other side of the issue. Any forecast up to 6 degrees for 2100 is completely outdated and corresponds to projections from previous IPCC's reports. The average ... Read More |
