The Fifth Estate certainly hasn't left a lasting impression, and isn't
essential viewing unless of course for Cumberbatch's performance, which really is the driving force of the film.
And the answer every time appears to be, if you do this, if you keep on doing what we're doing now, we will repeat, in all
essential details, the past warming event — at which stage geologists can take a really lofty
view — which
unless you've got grandchildren you tend to do — and you say, well, we don't care.