Reply #3: It lost me immediately

[Fiona]

Here's the opening:

"The Earth is more unstable now: it wobbles more than it used to. The atmosphere is speeding up and the Earth is slowing down. The Earth's core is getting hotter; the magnetic north is changing. The Sun is more active and much older than we once thought. Everything is more unpredictable, and humans seem more willing to push things to the limit.

.... (gratuitous quote from Sagan)

Imagine the Earth's atmosphere, also known as the ionosphere...."


that's when I stopped. I love Martin Sheen and his work on human rights is quite respectable, but any pretension of scientific validity is out the window with this introduction. Much of the first sequence is true, some is false. But the supposition is that mankind's influence is making the sun more active or making the magnetic poles change. The sun is OLDER than we thought? We're responsible somehow? The core is getting hotter? Says who? What does it mean to say the "astmosphere is speeding up"? Claiming that the atmosphere *IS* the ionospehre is just so scientifically illiterate, nothing that follows in this film can be taken seriously.