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By the year 2100, many scientists believe that the Earth's average temperature could rise by as much as six degrees Celsius. In a compelling investigation, National Geographic leads a degree-by-degree journey to explore what each rising - and critical - degree could mean for the future of our people and planet.Through powerful filmmaking and intimate profiles, this special illustrates how global warming has already affected the reefs of Australia, the ice fields of Greenland, and the Amazonian rain forest. With a sobering look at the effects of our world's insatiable appetite for energy, Six Degrees Could Change the World explains what's real, what's still controversial, and how existing technologies and remedies could help dial back the global thermometer.
Editor's Note
What's the difference between a 70 and 64 degree day? A jacket, an extra sweater? How about the total and complete annihilation of the planet as we know it? Even as little as a single degree shift in the mercury could spell serious trouble for the existence of humankind. At two degrees, weather patterns, radiation absorption, and the ecosystem are affected even further. And from there it gets uglier with each incremental degree in the global thermometer. This program, produced by National Geographic, explores the disastrous results as each digit rises potentially higher. It is, to say the least, a program that will have viewers seriously rethinking the potential disaster of global warming.
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