Product Details

• Producers: Greening Earth Society
• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Run Time: 28 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0018BW1QQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #353,463 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The controversy over the effects of increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) on nature -- and the fossil fuel combustion that contributes to it -- continues to intensify. Despite solid evidence to the contrary, many media reports speculate that increasing CO2 levels will result in apocalyptic global warming and eventual environmental disaster. In The Greening of Planet Earth Continues, expert scientists assert that CO2 is not a pollutant, but a nutrient to life on earth. The video further explores issues addressed in our first video, The Greening of Planet Earth, which has been distributed to more than 30,000 people worldwide. Learn the facts about climate history and the problems with computer simulations used to predict the impact of increasing CO2 levels. Discover what increasing CO2 levels really mean -- faster plant growth, greater agricultural yields and improved water-use efficiency in plants. Evidence shows a picture of the ongoing industrial evolution of humankind as the greening of planet earth continues.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars See a little bit of the other side of the argument., July 23, 2011

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Tom Vyse (Santee, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Greening of Planet Earth Continues (DVD)

I just wish this had been better done. It came off as kind of "plastic". The basic message, though, is that the more CO2 in the environment, the better plant life will do. Plant life is how carbon enters the life cycle. This isn't a presentation saying that global warming doesn't exist. It just points out that there are some positives going on with more carbon in the environment. If you don't believe their thesis, just call your local greenhouse and ask them if they use CO2 to make their plants grow faster. Turns out the optimum for plant growth is a lot higher than what we have now and what we are anticipating getting. Ask your florist what that optimum is.

All in all, a worthwhile view and counter presentation for what is generally an unrealistically one-sided discussion of the topic.

1.0 out of 5 stars Industry propaganda, February 8, 2011

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Jane Sooby (Santa Cruz, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Greening of Planet Earth Continues (DVD)

Buyer beware! If zero stars was an option that's what I would have given it. The Greening Earth Society (now defunct) was a public relations front for the Western Fuels Association, an industry group representing mostly coal interests in the Great Plains. One must give the big energy interests credit for creating the unwarranted skepticism about whether or not global climate change is occurring and whether or not it is a positive development. This film and its prequel summarize the coal industry's pro-pollution message about the "benefits" of increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The science presented in their films is shoddy, bought and sold by industry.