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  • SIX DEGREES COULD CHANGE THE WORLD

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This thought-provoking film tackles in startling detail the alarming changes that may face us all.

As the volume of greenhouse gases increases yearly, scientists are warning that the global average temperature could increase by as much as 6 degrees Celsius over the next century, which would cause our world to change radically. This documentary joins British author Mark Lynas and climate experts as they take a look at what effect each rise of 1ºC could have on the world.

Even if greenhouse emissions stopped overnight, the concentrations already in the atmosphere would still mean a global rise of between 0.5 and 1ºC. But what if the global temperature increased by another degree? According to Mark Lynas, author of Six Degrees, the changes would no longer be gradual. Greenland's glaciers and some of the lower lying islands would start to disappear. At 3ºC higher the Arctic would be ice-...
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