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...emotional wellness.“These fantastical scenes blend in effortlessly, so you have to be paying attention,” costume designer Rheeqrheeq A. Chainey ’11 said, who plays Belize, an ex-ex drag queen and nurse. “You slide from Brooklyn to Antarctica in one scene, for example.” In order to fully represent the fantastical elements of the plot, the sets were designed to be changed quickly. “Every scene is in a different place. We needed to decide what parts of the scene we were going...
...video of body bags being beamed back to America's living rooms. Even environmentalism has its iconic images, like Cleveland's heavily polluted Cuyahoga River catching fire in the 1960s, smog wreathing Los Angeles's skyline during the next decade and even the stark hole in the ozone over Antarctica. To help galvanize public support - especially around a complex issue - the right picture really can be worth a thousand words...
...affection.The film remains an immersive experience. Its heavy, disheartening examination of society’s periodic wish for self-destruction builds through long, brooding scenes and stunningly detailed panoramas—from Blake’s lonely, rainy funeral to Veidt’s ancient Egyptian-style retreat in Antarctica. This attention to detail, however, inevitably makes the movie feel slow at times. The viewer must embrace it and soak in the film’s visual extravagance, or reject it and battle moments of boredom, which at 163 minutes the movie cannot avoid.The film’s saving quality...
...IPCC numbers were based on older data and took into account only the thermal expansion of the seas. (Water expands as it heats, so warmer seas rise.) The IPCC did not factor in the potentially far greater impact of melting ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica - Greenland alone has enough ice to raise sea levels by more than 20 ft. At the time of the IPCC report, the polar ice sheets were clearly melting, but it wasn't clear how fast they were going or how they would respond to rising temperatures in the future...
...large regional differences around the world. At the lower end of the estimate, scientists say it's unlikely that seas will rise less than 50 cm even if we can get a grip on carbon emissions. The revised predictions are due to better data on melting in Greenland and Antarctica and from glaciers around the world, which are pouring water into the oceans and causing them to rise. Up to 600 million people in coastal areas around the world could be at increased risk for flooding. "Unless we take urgent and significant mitigation actions, the climate could cross a threshold...