National Geographic: Six Degrees Could Change the World
by Ron Bowman
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Actor: Alec BaldwinDirector: Ron Bowman
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-04-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: National Geographic Video
DVD Reviews of National Geographic: Six Degrees Could Change the World
DVD Review: Six Degrees DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a geography/earth science teacher. This DVD spells out in concrete terms what each degree of temperature increase means to us and planet Earth. It is a real eye opener.DVD Review: I HAD PREVIOUSLY SEEN THE DOCUMENTARY ON NATL.GEO. CHANNEL ON DIRECTV BUT WANTED MY OWN COPY TO PROVIDE TO FRIENDS & FAMILY
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
DVD Review: Very depressing...
Summary: 5 Stars
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. But Alec Baldwin has a great voice, the packaging is a green-product and the extras really help you save money. Too bad the packaging sucks when it comes to HOLDING the DVD in place but you can't have everything.DVD Review: Right on the mark.
Summary: 5 Stars
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 knew that the degree in the title is Celsius, but continually converted it to Fahrenheit for continual ease of understanding of myself along with millions of other Americans without the knowledge of the conversion rate from Celsius to Fahrenheit.
I would certainly recommend this documentary to all of those who are wondering how climate change will affect them. Also, to those non-believers, this will wake them up!
DVD Review: Informational but a little boring
Summary: 3 Stars
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.
Description of National Geographic: Six Degrees Could Change the World
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.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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