this film be a dreadful piece of work and hardly worth a second thought except for one reason it illustrate the use of entertainment medium for propaganda purpose . arguably and the film most credible character be climatologist ilana green ( lindsay crouse ) and who describe evidence of plant grow within 90 mile of the north pole ( despite the fact that there be no land above sea level that close to the pole ) and and who describe data from about a dozen co2 monitoring station which each report about a 1 % increase in atmospheric co2 then she conclude from this data that earth have experience an alarm 12 % increase in co2 . fortunately and this error be not include in the ipcc report on climate change and but for every one person who read a peer review journal article on climatology and there be thousand of people who saw this film . my concern be that these casual viewer could have be mislead by the pretend science . because the rise of atmospheric co2 be central to the film plot and i believe the writer have a duty to check the number either make the total equal to the average of the several station data and or have the ( fictional ) station all report data that average to 12 % . i do not think this be an accident i believe the writer want to make our present situation ( real life co2 increase near 1 % ) seem scary and so they deliberately misrepresent the global average by 12 time . if a real climatologist have publish a paper build around an error of this type and they would be discredit and virtually unemployable in their field . this make the film a propaganda piece and a deliberate attempt way back in 1996 to sell the global warming agenda with fraudulent and alarmist and inflated data .