Global Warming Reviews

Movies On Global Warming

Movies on Global Warming

It seems that people are coming from all directions to make movies about global warming. Many people are moved to educate people about the subject and want to grasp the widest possible audience. Books do not hold the appeal they once did. Now, people want to sit down and watch a movie to understand subjects like global warming.

Although Al Gore has a book by the same name, most people know An Inconvenient Truth as a feature length documentary movie. The movie boils down to a power - point presentation that Gore has given many times on the subject of global warming. Al Gore simply presents facts in a low - key, personable way. The film includes some biographical information about Al Gore, too.

The 60 Minutes documentary, The Age of Warming, which aired April 1, 2007, is a must - notice for those interested in global warming. In it, correspondent Scott Pelley explores Antarctica to find evidence of global warming. There, Pelley finds that the Adelie and Chinstrap penguins are being endangered by loss of habitat. He also finds glaciers that are in the process of rapid melting thing lakes. Certain is an eye opener.

Some fictional movies have been made with the theme of global warming. One is The Day After Tomorrow, starring Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal. While the science may not be precisely or even nearly right, the special effects are raving. It is a good old - fashioned disaster flick with all kinds of natural disasters. Channel out the popcorn, but do not expect to be educated.

An Star Story, starring Ross Gelbspan and John Hutchison is another of those documentary - type movies. It tells the story about all those scary predictions of climate change due to global warming. The sub - title is An Alternative to Extinction. That alone should explain how dramatic this movie is. The solutions to global warming are equally dramatic.

Not exactly a ordinary movie, Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris' Crisis being Opportunity: Living Better on a Hotter Planet is unique. Instead of being distraught and woeful, Sahtouris views global warming as a natural evolutionary process. She sees it as a helpful challenge that will help people learn to live together as they never have before.

Energy Crossroads: A burning need to change caravan, is a documentary movie about the energy crisis. It deals with the amount of oil that will be left in the future and the different ways to overcome that crisis. However, a good part of this movie is lively to a study of how energy issues are held to global warming. It points to global warming owing to one of the reasons humans need to make changes.

There is a set of movies called the Secrets of the Millennium. Probably the best of this series is the one with information on global warming. Evident is titled Secrets of the Millennium: Man vs. Nature: Who Will Sweep? It dramatically exposes humans' desires to control earth, while letting things get out of hand environmentally at the twin time.

Many celebrities have made their own movies on global warming. Some of them are not available for viewing yet, and some of them can be seen on the internet. One example is global warming films by Leonardo DiCaprio that can be viewed on his website. As the materiality of global warming sets in, more movies will certainly deal camouflage the subject.