9/10

- Covers some pretty elementary information about the Sun, but does move on to intermediate level information.
- Good pace of ideas and arguments. Did not appear biased.
- I personally could not determine why several people gave this documentary a low rating, but perhaps they thought it ended prematurely since it is spit across five segments.
- Does not discuss future experiments or theories. This show’s focus appears to be simply levelling the amount of understanding of solar phenomena shared among people.
- I would have liked seeing the topics covered in more detail, such as why one fellow’s theories regarding the Sun’s impact on the coriolis effect was unpopular.

Regarding the comment about climate change advocates:
The documentary explicately claims twice that the climate is changing due to man-made causes, so there is little reason for the advocates to rip it to shreds. The documentary also claims that the Sun affects the weather as well, and gives reasonable support for that claim.

Strike -”I’m surprised climate change advocates haven’t tried to rip this to shreds yet, what’s the problem boys?”

Irregardless of the affect the solar activity may have to climate change you can not diminish the affect the increasing of carbon dioxide has in the atmosphere.

Venus’s 800 degrees atmosphere is a shinning example of the affect of green house gases. Venus being closer to the sun has only a smaller affect and the 800 degrees can only be explained by the green house gas of carbon dioxide.

Are you a Republican? What about creationism?

@Strike
Geez, Strike. After watching the show twice, you still missed the statement about man-made climate change being a scientific fact. And then you dismiss the conclusions of research into anthropogenic climate change as not being ‘sound rational science’, calling it a cop-out. A cop-out of what? Putting on a brave face against the evidence to run a mis-information campaign lobbying for extractive industries interests?

The work of climate change science is not to ‘blame’ a single thing as you put it, but piecing together the influence of a variety of factors to understand and predict the impact of changes within them. Twenty years of refining this science attributes significant average global warming on a geologically short time scale to human releases of greenhouse gases.

And no, variations in the sun’s output over this timescale and volcanic eruptions etc do not account for significant enough changes by themselves. When GHG concentrations are factored in, the impact is accounted for, and reasonably predictable. This is well understood, and this documentary was consistent with that.

The DOOM DOOM DOOM side you dismiss as make-believe is the disruption to our agricultural and other production systems over a time scale of tens of years from now. But you can just build hundreds of desalination plant like the one at Wonthaggi to supply all the water Australia needs to its crops, and burn more coal to power it, eh mate?

Your argument to do nothing about human induced climate change due to a lack of evidence, and other such dribble, is sadly indicative of the level of discourse on Australia on this incredibly important topic. It says a lot about how dysfunctional and greedy our resource-rich Australian society is.

@Brevan

Lmao at your statement “does not appear biased ” and. “I don’t understand why people are giving this a low rating “. You’re killing me son. The first thing the narrator said was that man made global warming was an indisputable fact. That is what is known as bias. Figured I ought to clue you in since you seem to unaware what bias actually means. As for the rest, well ill just toss you in with the creationists so I only have one corral of idiots to laugh at.

@Struck Out

One more fool for the show you are. So let me get this straight.
The earth has been significantly higher than of is now before we had cars and factories.
The average global temperature hasn’t even risen by a degree in the last 100 years.
The largest contributors to gases in the atmosphere are volcanos and plants.
You’re just plain wrong about your assertions.

But I can reasonably say that you have been successfully programed and your willingness to run around screaming the sky is falling and wanting to sign up for a carbon tax and generally be a fucking idiot is laughable to me. But fear not, there is something that is well understood here. It is well understood that you don’t understand any of what you are attempting to lay as fact. The ipcc report is a lie and that is a fact. Now please go to your room and try not to trip over your own feet on the way there.

Nat Geo is unbelievably sloppy with their descriptions. The satellites that give the 3-D image of the sun are not “deployed in tandem, one in front of the other”. They are deployed one ahead of the earth in its orbit, the other trailing behind. Wow!