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The movie The Day After Tomorrow, is about Global Warming and Climate Change. It is an awesome movie, a thriller full of action packed scenes. I have seen it a few times and love it every time, it still makes me sit on the edge of my seat. I had seen this movie when it first came out in 2004, and what attracted me to it was the question "Could this really happen?" There are many science phenomenons in this movie that it had intrigued me even more, not to mention the big line up of cast in the movie. The movie stars Dennis Quade, who plays Jack Hill, a climatologist.
The movie starts out in Antarctica with Jack and his other two fellow scientists Jason Evans (Dash Mihok who plays Bunchy Donovan in the Ray Donovan TV series on Showtime) and Frank Harris (Jay O Sanders from Law and Order: Criminal Intent and the unfortunate Green Lantern movie). They are there taking core samples of the ice. Jay is outside taking the samples, when the ground begins to shake. Jack and Frank run out to see what is happening. There is a huge crack that is splitting the ice and opening a huge ice canyon, and Jay is holding on to the machine that pulls the ice samples out of the ice. As the ground under him begins to give away, they grab him to safety, but Jack notices that important core samples are still on the other side, Jack runs and jumps and grabs them, he has just minutes, as the crack is getting bigger and bigger, he runs and jumps back to the other side, he gets the samples in Franks hands when the ground under Jack gives way, it looks as though he went down, but when Frank and Jay look over the side he is hanging by his climbing hammer.
Always Listen To The Scientist in a Disaster Movie After his near death experience Jack tires to brief the UN on climate changes and how we are headed for another Ice Age based on the findings of him and his team. Jack talks about how the Northern Hemisphere owes it tempered climate to the North Atlantic current. Heat comes from the sun and carried north from the equator. But Global Warming is melting the Ice caps and disrupting the flow. It will then shut down and there will be no warmer climate. The climate change is fractured and the rate that we are burning fossil fuel and polluting the environment, the Ice Caps will soon disappear. He shows the graph of the ice age inducing super-cells on the right while the graph on the left shows what an actual super-cell image would look like: |
The Vice President Becker (Kenneth Welsh the narrator of the TV mini-series Perfect Storms: Disasters that Changed The World, not shying far from the Earth doom and gloom genera) starts asking when all this will happen, Jack says it could be years away, but we need to start changing now, Vice President Becker says it will cost too much money to do this. And as we all know that when someone starts throwing money in the mix it’s all downhill from there.
Some of the things that was said in the movie is a lot of what has been said in articles and other reports similar to the one found here.
Where Will You Spend Your Money When The Mall is Under Water
But here is a little something from the article “If global warming were to boost the hydrological cycle, enhanced freshwater discharge into the North Atlantic would shut down the AMO (Atlantic Meridional Overturning), the North Atlantic component of global ocean overturning circulation. This would result in downstream cooling over Europe, leading to the slow growth of glaciers and the onset of the next ice age (1). Now remember I told you that once money is thrown into the mix, its downhill from there.
Tornados, Kitten Hail and Tsunamis, OH MY!
There are science phenomenons starting up all over the place including many large tornados ripping through LA (Dorothy isn't in Kansas anymore), hail falling from the sky the size of kittens in Asia raining down and killing people, a tsunami that hits NY (goodbye subway smell),and Europe is hit with freezing. The action in this movie takes your breath away, you feel as though you are right there. I have to say that there are a few senses that you have to say “really”, but not enough to take away from the movie.
All Movies Need a Love Story and Death
Jack's son was trapped in NYC with his high school crush who was dying. In true Hollywood form he saves the girl and gets the kiss in the end, despite the world almost ending. While trying to save his son, Jack treks North from DC to NYC with Frank and Jason. Frank falls to his death inside a shopping mall as they are snowshoeing across the Northeast. That was a brave move knowing the Cina-bon wasn't open. In the end the super-cells past, many across the northern hemisphere have frozen to death, but humanity has learned its lesson... or has it.
References:
Actors and Images credited to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt03
Ice shelf breaking off credited to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjw8KdCBHsc:
Frank sacrifice himself at the mall, credited tohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzQuHf2mlf0 https://www.google.com/search?q=images+of+radar+supercells&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiK3Zyqhb7VAhUY
- Cited: GRIP Project Members, Nature 364, 203 (1993).
Actors and Images credited to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt03
Ice shelf breaking off credited to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjw8KdCBHsc:
Frank sacrifice himself at the mall, credited tohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzQuHf2mlf0 https://www.google.com/search?q=images+of+radar+supercells&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiK3Zyqhb7VAhUY