National Geographic: Six Degrees Could Change the World
starring: Alec Baldwin
directed by: Ron Bowman
directed by: Ron Bowman
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Studio: Warner Home VideoRelease Date: 04/08/2008Run time: 90 minutes
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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
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Studio: Warner Home VideoRelease Date: 04/08/2008Run 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
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- I HAD PREVIOUSLY SEEN THE DOCUMENTARY ON NATL.GEO. CHANNEL ON DIRECTV BUT WANTED MY OWN COPY TO PROVIDE TO FRIENDS & FAMILY
I DON'T BUY THINGS THAT AREN'T GOOD AND WORTHWHILE - I HAD PREVIOUSLY SEEN THE DOCUMENTARY ON DIRECTV - THE NATL.GEO. CHANNEL -
EVERY REPUBLICAN POLITICIAN IN CONGRESS SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO VIEW IT AT LEAST TEN TIMES TO SINK INTO THEIR THICK "MONEY-FIRST" & "PASS-OUR-COSTS-OFF-TO-OTHERS" SKULLS AND TO ABOLISH A CREED OF DOING BUSINESS AS OBSOLETE NEANDERTHALS - WITH NO VISION OF OR CARE ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE HUMAN RACE.
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 excellent
Alarming 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 boring
The 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.
- I HAD PREVIOUSLY SEEN THE DOCUMENTARY ON NATL.GEO. CHANNEL ON DIRECTV BUT WANTED MY OWN COPY TO PROVIDE TO FRIENDS & FAMILYI DON'T BUY THINGS THAT AREN'T GOOD AND WORTHWHILE - I HAD PREVIOUSLY SEEN THE DOCUMENTARY ON DIRECTV - THE NATL.GEO. CHANNEL -
EVERY REPUBLICAN POLITICIAN IN CONGRESS SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO VIEW IT AT LEAST TEN TIMES TO SINK INTO THEIR THICK "MONEY-FIRST" & "PASS-OUR-COSTS-OFF-TO-OTHERS" SKULLS AND TO ABOLISH A CREED OF DOING BUSINESS AS OBSOLETE NEANDERTHALS - WITH NO VISION OF OR CARE ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE HUMAN RACE.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
