The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning

Al Gore's Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth has done a lot to raise the international awareness of the environmental issue of global warming. But where do things stand today? The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning is a one-hour documentary that will go to the source of the climate change crisis: Antarctica. Here we explore first-hand the environmental challenges facing that frozen continent and, by extension, the world. This documentary features interviews from polar experts and research scientists around the world as well as rare HD footage of breathtaking landscapes and Antarctic wildlife including penguins in their hatching season. One of the highlights of the film will be an interview with Alexandra Shackleton, granddaughter of the legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton whose courageous expedition to cross Antarctica from sea to sea in 1914 to 1917, blazed a trail for all of mankind today. Among the recent discoveries the world's scientific community has made here this year is the new phenomenon of suicide among penguins. Never-before-seen footage of a penguin marching off alone to his death is featured. Other discoveries include the imminent rise of the world's sea level due to ice melting and amazing footage of new vegetation growing in the world's largest desert. It is the mandate of this documentary to bring to light the theories and statistics first brought to the publics attention in An Inconvenient Truth with hands-on exploration of the continent, its wildlife and the brave men and women who have given up the comforts of civilization in order to save it. This is The Antarctica Challenge</p>