gottdeskinos I didn't mind the sci-fi aspect of this documentary: Our narrator is a guy in a futuristic archive in the 2050's wondering how humanity got to this point. And then we see news clips and interviews from our time with people talking about big oil companies, natural disasters, observable climate change results, harsh living conditions and, ironically, a guy who wants to make flying in India dead cheap. The movie overall felt a bit unfocused, for example talking at one point about wars being fought over oil and then making a narrative jump to Iraqi kids talking about their wish to kill Americans to revenge their dad. Things like that gave the movie a weird political aspect that felt unnecessary - to my taste as a Central European anyway. But obviously this was made mostly for American audiences, where human- induced climate change is always a political issue as well.So, summing up: I support the cause of raising awareness for climate change and its potential consequences and it's good to show people how they can change their habits and have an impact. I liked the animation bits for that. But apart from that this movie will not deliver many new facts or aspects. And worst of all: A climate change denier will walk away from this movie probably with an unchanged opinion, because there are a lot of mixed messages. So, maybe we live in the age of stupid after all.

blissdragon I have deeply studied the climate science, and have been presenting this information publicly. I had no idea there was a movie already made about this...the new time lines of the climate crisis are precisely conveyed by this movie. In a way that is *accessible*. And that is even entertaining. This is humanity's very last chance to redeem himself to the planet/nature/god (call it what you will). As a species, we are flunking out. Of course, there are plenty of comments below about the preposterousness of climate science. These commenters have been hornswoggled by the propaganda of the right wing of American politics, and their funding fathers, the fossil fuel corporations. These commenters know not what they spew.

Robert J. Maxwell It's a documentary about global warming or, more specifically, about anthropogenic global warming. Our host and narrator is a very serious Pete Postlethwaite. The opening shows us scenes, most computer-generated images, of a Las Vegas buried under sand dunes and a Sidney Opera House burning amidst the rubble. The message, repeated several times, is, "We could have saved ourselves." The producers are more certain about that than I am. The question is not whether the earth is heating up -- of course it is -- but how much our own activities contribute to that warming. If we ceased all emission of greenhouse gases at once, could we really "save ourselves"? The answer can't be a simple "yes" because we don't know for sure. The only correct answer is "probably" -- with a high degree of probability, and probably very high.However, my judgment is based on a scientific approach to social problems, a filthy tendency I picked up during a career in research. But this unnerving documentary isn't aimed at people like myself, who take science seriously. It's aimed at an audience who either haven't thought much about the ultimate effects of global warming or have managed to convince themselves -- or to let others convince them -- that the whole issue is a liberal-inspired hoax with Al Gore at the bottom of everything. That's almost as sad as the message of the film. The people who need most to see it will never watch it because it challenges an ideology to which they've committed themselves.The first example is presented by an eighty-two year old French guide to climbing in the Alps. He begins by leading a married couple down what appears to be a quarter mile of ladders bolted to a cliff face of rock, and he remarks that when he began his career there were no ladders because climbers could step directly off the cliff onto the glacier. Since then, the glacier has melted and dropped hundreds of feet. I didn't need convincing. I climbed, or rather walked, on the Columbia Icefield in Alberta, Canada, for the first time in 1953. I visited it again in 1988 and the edge of the ice had retreated about the length of a football field, one hundred yards or so, the glacier having melted to that extent over a mere 35 years.It's an important film but not a perfect one. The producers sort of skipped over the root cause of the processes they condemn. Regrettably, we can reduce our greenhouse gas emissions all we want, but there really is only one sure and final way to cut our contribution to global warming. As long as human being make use of an energy source there will be some environmental impact, large or small. Eventually we'll need to face the fact that there are simply too many of us. Nobody has exact figures on the world's population but the best estimate is that in 1950 there were about two billion of us. Today there are somewhat more than six billion. And, at current growth rates, by 2050 we should have doubled that figure to twelve billion. Every one of those twelve billion will be a contaminant, and China is the only nation currently addressing the problem -- in its own interest, not that of the globe. We all need a long-distance wake-up call from Thomas Malthus.And what is America doing? We're electing politicians who decry all science that doesn't fit their ideology, not just global warming but evolution. (Other countries have done such things before, proving the superiority of the Aryan race and the fact that acquired traits are inherited.) Two years ago, an elected representative stood on the floor of Congress, railing against the global warming hoax, took a deep breath, blew it out, and said, "That's carbon dioxide. See? It's not a poison gas!" A Missouri Congressman, a member of the House Science and Technology Committee, who believes that a woman can't conceived after being raped, recently told us, "I'm not anti-science. I'm pro-science. Only let's have science we can believe in." "The Age of Stupid." Even if everything else about the film were wrong, they'd have gotten the title right.

GulforDie Thank The Heavens!! If films like this and al gore are the force behind committing economic suicide then rest assured my follow friends who posses commonsense....we are safe for now! What a self serving holy then thou piece of nonsense this film is. It seeks only to provoke emotion and all commonsense is regarded as being evil earth hating thoughts. You may think this film will only serve to excite the disciples of global warming, but in fact it does much more.....It proves (to the independent thinker) how far the religion of global warming has come, this movie will scare most into avoiding the cult not joining it!!!