Great Barrier Reef to be dead by 2024

Rating: 8/10 (11 January 2005)

Just saw this for the first time, and it's been only a couple of weeks since the Sumatra tsunami. When the big wave hits the Big Apple, that really was gripping. The rest of the film was chilling enough, with zesty special effects.
What the hell, did the ice age just kind of peter out at the end? One minute it was freezing folks solid and the next it was just sunny and brisk... si I'm calling the ending "lame".
Still, I give the overall film an 8 of 10. Planetary warming is happening and this film is good for the world's psyche. I have heard that the Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Australia, is in jeopardy of becoming dead of life in less that 20 years, due to rising water temperatures. Another coral paradise off Belize will also be wiped out. Al Gore was on the right track with the Kyoto Treaty, and it's a heinous mistake for the U.S. to snub our responsibilities to the planet.
I work in a library, so you can figure I had to like this film just to see the books on Tax Law being fed to the flames.