Lol i actually said the same thing to myself when the lady was saying all that stuff.
I watched it a few weeks ago, but if I recall correctly, the goal is to educate the public that there IS a crisis. This is a subtle distinction - yet one that is important to your point.
Certainly misinformation is unfortunate and should, ideally, be avoided when possible. But there's a point in "dumbing things down", as it were. When your goal is to get a group of people interested in a topic, you have to make sure that you don't overwhelm them with useless information. Doing so will cause them to shun the topic - the exact opposite of the goal. When you're face-to-face with the people, you can feel this out as you go and (if you are astute), keep just enough away from that edge to not go over. But with a medium such as video (where there is no feedback to the presenter possible), you have to assume where that edge is. How much "perfect" information you present is as much about psychology as it is about the need to explain the topic at hand. When that's the case (as it is here), the authors must choose their audience to target. It should be no surprise that we - those of us with aquariums in our homes - are above the level of the audience they aimed at.
You and I are in the same boat. When I wash it I couldn't stand the inaccuracies. What was even worse to me was when on the video and in the imagery they showed Quarles had been flipped over in areas that were covered in Silt and sand, and they were indicating the bleaching her there. I think the water quality diminished and that caused the bleaching and that water quality was due to pollutants not necessarily global warming as they were trying to indicate.
, and the deal with the public in the process.
Lol. I have always been confused about some of the single polyp corals like trachys since they have many mouths. Does each mouth correspond to an individual?
As stated prior, it is useful to say plants and have the audience follow you. In its most colloquial meaning, plant does include all photoautotrophs. Maybe plant-like is better and I can go there, but certainly autotroph is better and preferred over dinoflagellate or zooxanthellae. Or better yet, they should have said, "actually typically thought of as autotroph but often mixotroph and sometimes heterotroph." But everyone wold have stopped listening as soon as the multisyllabic words were dropped. The truth is, that as scientists we have to know when to generalize, when to analogize, and when be specific and nuanced. I just got scolded today for going a little too deep when I could have written more plainly.
This is like asking a phylogeneticist to define how much genetic variability separates species in a clade. Or, as one prior poster, when is Pando one quaking aspen versus thousands. To some degree each stem (and each polyp) is independent, but is also not. In some cases (e.g. Fungia) the decision is made pretty clear cut for us. But what happens when multiple polyps share one gastrovascular system? it's definitely easier to think of them as one individual (even if it is many animals), so I think most of us can be on the same page there. At the same, acknowledging that many papers will consider the individual colony as the unit of observation, ignoring their collection.
No offense but I am going to be blunt. By focusing on these tiny details you are missing the complete purpose of the film. To educate this climate change doubters! To educate them that it is actually happening despite all the nay sayers. Most people would consider algae a plant, and to focus on the scientifically details is missing the point of the entire film. Use the details you have noticed and use them to your advantage on class not to slander the film. I think the film was well needed and coupled with the other "chasing ice" (not sure on the name but the iceberg and glacier documentary) proves that despite what some media reports climate change is real.
This did nothing for climate change doubters. Government paid scientific analysis does nothing for doubters. Posing new regulations and employing people to preach climate change STILL does nothing for climate change doubters. BUT if anything, does keep an open mind. Learning about nature in an accurate and detailed manor helps keep an open mind too.
Maybe. If it were a Finding Nemo movie we were dissecting, absolutely. I worry because, I don't want to see the reefs die off. The chain reaction would hurt everyone.
