Climate change gets weighed from two angles in this film: a panel of scientists laying out the research on rising temperatures, melting ice, and shifting weather patterns, and a set of local activists and skeptics arguing over what that research means for their own communities. The two groups do not simply take turns; the film cuts between them so their disagreements about causes, consequences, and what to do next play out directly against each other rather than in separate segments. Between the debates, the camera moves out to natural landscapes and wildlife, using that footage less as scenery than as a reminder of what is at stake in the argument. The film does not resolve the dispute so much as document it, leaving the scientific consensus and the skeptical pushback both on record. It plays as a snapshot of how the climate debate sounded at the local level around 2011.