Canary is dead

i wanted to say great vedio yall did a great job on filming it is a great one and i want to say congratulations it is good

Congratulation on making it TV......When you have a minute - please review "The Kitchen Killer" - a POD on indoor air quality/burns associated with Open Flame Cooking and a simple low cost solution. It effects those Least Served.
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Congratulations on making it to the big screen, well deserved. Please come over and support my new pod Shadow Boxer when you get a chance link Getreel

Excellent POD!!! Glad it will be on TV. We need to preserve our reefs for generations to come. Great Editing, and loved the VO. Would have GL, but will be on TV. We have similar interests, and hopefully together we can protect our oceans...

Check out my Pod: Adventures in Diving with D.J. Csaszar. Just look for the Tiger Shark. I Could use all the help possible to educate and inform the public. Great Job

simple proof that the planet is in trouble. a must see for everyone.

Another effect of the war in Iraq is that the health of the oceans is put on the back burner, and this is insane. Do you think coral reef death and other global warming-related problems would be addressed if the 2000 selection had worked out differently?

Wow. Interesting footage, tight editing, and to-the-point narration. Thanks for this effective piece.

Wonderfully presented. Terribly sad.

great footage...this should b on t v..

This was listed as the third most emailed article today.

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CONGRATULATIONS!

This has been a great experience and wish to thank everybody who watched our pod and gave us feedback. It is good to know that Canary is Dead will now be on air as it is so important for people to know what happened at the Phoenix Islands with global warming and reefs. Our work out at sea will continue with Studio of the Sea and we will be producing more pods in the future - check us out at: www.pcrf.org!

Congrats on your being picked for TV. NIce job!

Awesome piece, stunning visuals, perfect voice over, briliant music, especially at the end.
Congrats on making it

This is the best piece I've seen on Current TV. Excellent and important work.

P Hubb

Thanks for a great piece on some important info that we may not hear about on the main networks. GL

Beautiful, you touched my heart. Very informative and well written. I think the music associated well with the footage and narrative.

Wondeful underwater footage, heart sinking story. It must be told and you did it. Thanks! Let's get it on the air.

too bad people don't give a sh*t

I agree! Why isn't this on the tube yet?? Could be a little more informative but deserves to be seen as is!

Very well done - congratulations. Excellent scary entertainment, but for
any sociological impact needs more science explanation of the identified cause to boost believability factor. How hot, how long, temperature tolerance range of corals, meterologic explanations, current changes, even 60 seconds of hard data could dramatically boost impact. A great adjunct to "inconvenient truth". Narration exceptionally good, my compliments!

Why the hell isn't this on TV yet? I swear if Current doesn't post this to it's TV station, I'm dumping my membership and writing this channel/site off as a fraud.

A beautiful documentary. Professional in every way!

The narator's voice is so soothing...relaxing... almost like being there.

A definite Greenlight!

Beautiful and professionally made. Greenlight this must get on air.

And if you'd like a crit- it is long in a few areas I feel.
When listing the possible causes for the reef's condition, that section gets on a bit, you could trim some of it.

Also there is no score/music at this point, which makes it seem abit longer.

and my lst two cents is on the information expressed, i wouldnt take anything away but have you considered incorporating some on screen *simple* graphics to illustrate the stats and figures being discussed? maybe just text?

The infor is a bit heady and by that point in the piece I think the viewer may be more focused on the beautiful imagery than what is being said.

That was the incredibly well done, Nice Job.
GL!

wow, nice. beautiful shots+great story, this has to make it on air! GL!

check mine out.

This in itself is as shocking as "An Inconvenient Truth" itself. A must-see for everyone on the planet.

Great pod!

You people are just plain wrong. George Bush is our president and he says we should all drive the biggest SUVs we can afford. Beside the 400 billion, most of it which goes to CEOs of weapons manufactures, the US tax payers(suckers) must pay to help Isreal kill as many Palastiniansas possible. Why are you scaring people with this global warming crap when we can be helping the most greedy, noe-con, Nazi like money God, mizers get richer. You, You, are almost as pathetic as Humas, the democratically elected leaders of the Palistinians. Why are you so worried about the Planet? The second in command, Vice President, DICK, wadd, Cheney has a plan to rule the world! GOD is money, any consern about the planet comes in a distant thrid behind worship the GOD MONEY and of the most holy presidential administration in history of man(kind?).

To hell with this second rate planet! Worship only the U.S. Fehrer!
Sieg Heil, Seig Heil, SEIG HEIL!

Sarcazm of course.

I'm with you all the way. The sooner we get the Neo-con Nazi, lying, fasle profit anti Christs out of the White House, the more chance we have for mankind to live up tp our true potential. Through sustainibility and responsibility we (our species) can live on this planet for more than a million years. In that amount of time we can grow spiritually and intelligently to the point of becoming eternal.

I love you, peace, gooday and a green light,

Ken

Wiscokidd@hotmail.com

Awesome underwater footage....

I would give a a couple of greenlights if I could.

Amazing photography! Well Done.

Nice shots. Cut it shorter though. Good job.
I hope we wont lose the planet...

Like the dying of the trees, our video, yours captures the various canaries in the mineshaft that a looming. Nature is trying to tell us something. Are we listening? Good job.

Wow....absolutely beautiful. The globe could use resizing however. Its very moving to see the way the world changes under the reign of man as well. GL

Gripping is the urgent message as well as the beautiful filmmaking.

Love the underwater photography. Overall, the production value is strong in this piece. The message is clear.

All the way to the Phoenix Island for this pod - that in itself deserves a greenlight. Let me know when you guys are in Coney Island.

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I'm so distraught to see the devastating effects that global warming has had on our environment...

Just a figure that I heard from a park ranger while I was in St. John snorkelling: At the current rate of devastation, in 10 years 40% of all the reefs worldwide will be gone. In 40 years, it will be gone COMPLETELY.

I find some relief to see that this issue has garnered more attention and support, "An Inconvenient Truth" being a great example.

I hope that we will learn as global citizens to reduce and minimize our impact on Earth.

Inspiring pod. I'll stay tuned.

Certainly this is ready to go as-is, but for what it's worth I think you could do us all a service by tightening up your argument and elaborating some of the more important (and actionable) points. Right now a big chunk of the timeline is devoted to all the factors that _haven't_ killed the reef, with less than a minute spent linking it to global warming. How did that "hot spot" appear? Why is it over Canary instead of, say, the Great Barrier reef or the lake in Florida where my grand-dad docks his motorboat? Streamlined and made a bit more deliberate, this could be an amazingly powerful call to action. At the moment, it's a very compelling list of statistics.

EVERYONE should see this, hear this, understand this. Please pay it forward- share this with everyone you know, ask them to help greenlight this so that we may help the chance to save what is vital for us all- the coral reefs, the oceans, the earth, us.

A very important wake up call for the world for sometime now, the destruction of coral reefs needs to be on the forefront of people's global agendas like oil dependency or rainforest destruction. Green light this film - these are the REAL people doing the REAL work for coral reef preservation.

Ellen Starr
E*Events

The video, as well as the narrator's voice, are very soothing. I definitely thought it was a well done piece.

I thought it was perfect. Wouldn't change a thing!

Good job, should air!

Outstanding, distressing, and true. This short piece needs to been seen by every carbon-producing citizen--which means the entire 'first world'... Laser is a talented filmmaker and PCRF is doing the kind of work that ALL enviro's should be engaged in.

wonderfull. But quiete too long.
Good iob!!!

We stand at the brink of a time with amazing potential for a global environmental movement. But how can we act? When will we realize the stakes? How can we get past the beautiful images and wake up? Pieces like this and An Inconvenient Truth bring people together in spirit but how can we come together in action? Asking for donations isn't enough but certainly a start. GREENLIGHT

check out our piece on community action:
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Its a bit long, but besides that, the piece is really strong. I'd cut it down, which is hard to do when the content is really good, maybe condense the part about what destroys reefs, if possible. But very important to address the decimation of such a beautiful landscape.
Very sad and more people should know about what is happening to the precious reefs.

Greenlight all the way. This is the content we should see in the main stream all the time. Well done good writing, video, location, information. Keep it up

Wonderful piece.

tears come to my eyes every time i watch this, just remembering diving on those reefs for the first time and trying to figure out what could have possibly happened....canary is a model for global warming around the world...congrats on getting it "out there" guys....much love.

an incredible film. congrats my friends! keep going going going.

Great video. I like that the focus is on the reefs specifically since most environmental videos are rather broad. Bringing attention to unknown places like the Phoenix Islands is awesome too.

Nice shots, well cut, A wake up call presented in a well put, to the point piece.

Thanks

I'm greenlighting this, because I can't deny the power of the imagery and the impact of the writing and editing. But there a few things I'd personally like to see changed:

The reference to "The PCRF" that occurs about midpoint through should be changed to the full organization name -- enough time has passed in the piece that another citation would help.

I'm not sure how Current handles these things, but the way I see it, the point here is to inform, not to fundraise. The "Support the PCRF" statement at the end pushes the piece into the latter category, and robs if of some of its potency. That doesn't mean you can't put contact info immediately after the fadeout as your first closing credit, but find some other, compelling final statement for your V.O. that would inspire me to reach out to the organization on my own.

But strong piece otherwise, exposing yet another reason why worldwide attention must be paid to the environment.

Nice voice-over and very informative.

Coral for life!

Fantastic! What shots. What more can be said?

I am very close to tears. Wow. After diving in the caribbean I feel so connected to the coral reefs. This is absolutely devistating and yet inspires me to want to DO something. I have seen the death of reefs in Thailand and Honduras and it makes me so sick to my stomach. Thank you thank you thank you for putting this out there! It is a well thought out piece with a good balance of graphics, underwater footage and voiceover.

:::greenlight:::

I very clearly remembered reading the National Geographic article about the Phoenix Islands and how I felt so awe struck that such a unique and unparralled coral paradise existed . The imagery was stunning and these islands were heralded as one of the last remaining coral reef wilderness on the planet. David Obura, vice president for global marine programs at the New England Aquarium, had excitedly cited it as one of "Earth's last pockets of primal ocean, those underwater havens that have remained unspoiled as long as the ocean can remember."

The dramatic story of the demise of the worlds oceans is very well summed up by this excellent documentary piece. Its beautifully shot , edited and narrated. A wonderful film and a very noble cause.

Extremely well produced short documentary on a very sad topic. The work was stellar.

I'm ready to slit my wrists. Gorgeous photography, well done. Green one here.

oh lord. we've got to face this poblem, among others...

this video presentation of the global warming problem is wonderfully produced and easy to follow. The narrator's voice is one of those I could listen to for hours. The filming is captivating. I found that "Canary" made it's point in a fashion which causes one to listen and remember the information. Informative, provocative, beautiful and shocking. The perfect documentary.

Real ocean research, with results even I could understand... Beautiful underwater cinematography. It's clear that, whether caused by man or nature, global warming cannot be ignored.

This is definitely something people need to be aware of. Beautiful cinematography and great story telling. Excellent work!

fantastic filming above and below the water line...grateful to people who are daring enough to find out how humans are destroying the ocean floor...us normal folk can't go out to the middle of the ocean but thanks to laser, we can at least see what's there and shouldn't be and what's not there and should be...thank you laser...

Great work. It's important to keep people aware of this issue.