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Six Degrees Could Change The World

Six Degrees is an extraordinary journey into our planet's future to explore the potential impacts of global warming degree-by-degree - through six degrees over the next hundred years. Filmed on 5 continents, Six Degrees tracks the world's top climate researchers and follows ranchers, photographers and everyday people to uncover the hidden signs and climate trends. From Greenland's ice sheet to tropical ocean coral reefs, from Himalayan glaciers to the Amazon rainforest, come chilling firsthand accounts of climate change already underway - and evidence of more to come. As global warming reaches into the lives of ordinary people, scientists on the frontlines race against the clock to determine if the climate models are right and if they are, how bad things could get. As the mercury rises, what could the next century of climate change really look and feel like? Super-realistic computer graphics, stunning high definition imagery and the world's most remote and spectacular locations provide an unprecedented preview into a potentially catastrophic future. The journey of Six Degrees concludes with an examination of solutions, both great and small, we can use to defuse the global warming time bomb.

[Man] We have signs of very great changes occurring on the planet.
[Man 2] Everything happened so fast.
[Man 3] There's creeks drying up that have never dried up in my lifetime.
[Man 4] We've got a forest here that's already at the edge.
[Woman] We're going into uncharted territory.
[Narrator] Our pianet is at a crossroads.
Giobal warming isn't out of control, but it soon could be.
The warning signs are all around us.
This is the challenge of climate change.
What can we do about global warming?
What wiil happen to the Earth if we don't?
The temperature is rising.
Each degree is critical.
[Various voices] Just one degree...
- One degree warmer...
- Two degrees...
- Threshold is about three degrees...
- Three to four degrees of warming...
You're starting to look at four degrees...
Three degrees, four degrees, five degrees...
Six degrees is almost unimaginable.