I could feel the lump in her throat.
Sure hope there are many many more like her soon.

I sent the trailer of the documentary to everyone I know.

convinced by a frivolous man to denounce the most basic demands of your well being.

I've argued with people like her "before conversion", and they have infuriated me and insulted me, and I shouldn't feel such sympathy for her, but I do.

of climate scientists as pulling their predictions out of their ass, and also that it's all In The Future And Hypothetical. The idea that this stuff is based on actual observation (that you can even put into a documentary) is probably new to them. I predict that our ongoing north american drought, and events like Sandy, will also chip away at the wall of denial.

You made people leave your house if they "believed" in global warming? And now you've "seen the light", the same light that's been metaphorically crisping your skin with third-degree reality sunburn for literally decades?

As much as it pains me to say it, the positive feedback loops now in motion are not going to be slowed by carpooling or air-drying your clothes, or by telling your friends about this movie, for that matter.

Sorry, too late. I mean, glad you're all choked up, honey, but the time for preventative action has come and FUCKING GONE.

Or, to quote The Lady Chablis, "Two tears in a bucket, motherfuck it."

what you are saying, hatrack.

And I also believe we have stepped in deep doo-doo - there's no way to stop this and the sooner we realize it and try to come up with a plan (however feeble it might be), the better.

I'd already seen this video, so during the movie I was watching for what exactly changed her mind. I mean all the deniers must have heard a little of what the scientists say, but I guess they're so used to only hearing from one side that when they see people (who aren't politicians) presenting it all at once then it gets right through. I mean this women isn't stupid, and she must care about the future being left to her grandkids. The deniers' argument is usually about "natural cycles", and "this has always happened", so I though melting ice wouldn't change her mind, so I was looking for what in the film DID get her.

Much of it was about how they got the footage, and the knee problems that kept Balog from doing some of the filming himself, but he had a team helping him so they got what they needed anyway. But parts were about what's causing climate change, it told it simply, easy to understand. The best part was when he told the evidence that scientists get from ice cores, how from the air bubbles they know the temperature and co2 concentration at the time the layer of ice froze (settled, whatever) The long graph of those two statistics, covering many thousands of years and showing how the two went up & down together made it very clear. If all the rest of the talk didn't get her then I know that picture did. The worst thing about that graph though is how much higher than ever before the co2 concentration goes now, like up up up.. so scary. Now it's about 400 ppm. I remember when it went over 350, it was just a few years ago. How does this not terrify people???? How can anyone paying attention to it still think they've just GOT to give the rest of this century to their little babies?

Most of the melting shots are from the time-lapsed films they made with all the cameras. But there's a scene near the end where a glacier the size of lower Manhattan and three times as high (well, deep) breaks off into the sea. At first it's hard watching it to really understand how big it is, it being ice, but when I got it I think my mouth actually dropped open. The time lapsed scenes are great at showing what's happening but watching that huge piece calving was incredible, almost unbelievable.

They showed scenes of Balog with his family and it bugged me that he has small children, while here he is showing how frightening the next few decades will be, and how it's because of our species. Then at the very end, after the credits, it says "to our children" and then lists the names of everyone's kids, which is nice, don't get me wrong. But then under their names it says "and to their children..." But what if some of their children decide, "Hey, since my species going from 2 billion to 8 billion in less than a century is the main cause of this, well I'M not going to make copies of myself." or even "Hey look how scary the next 90 years is, I'm not going to give it to the one person I'd love and respect more than all the rest, no MY child doesn't belong here." This may be a sad way to think.. some of us have made this decision and will live the rest of our lives never knowing what it's like to have our own baby, but also we'll know (and have it proven over and over) that we've done the right thing to keep our child from this. That end part of the credits just bothered me. Does NO ONE, even the people who know the most about what's happening and how their species is causing it, understand someone deciding not to make more babies. This just kills me about humanity.