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Day After Tomorrow: How Climate Change Could Trigger a New Ice Age



Upon Jack's suggestion, President Blake orders the southern states to be evacuated into Mexico, while the northern ones are doomed to be hit by the superstorm, but are warned by the government to seek shelter and stay warm. The Mexicans close the border until Blake agrees to cancel all Central and Latin American debt to the USA. Jack, Jason, and Frank make their way to New York against all odds. In Pennsylvania, Frank falls through the skylight of a mall that had become covered in snow and sacrifices himself by cutting his rope to prevent his friends from falling in after him.




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Emmerich did not deny that his casting of a weak president and the resemblance of vice-president Kenneth Welsh to Dick Cheney were intended to criticize the climate change policy of the George W. Bush administration.[21] Responding to claims of insensitivity in his inclusion of scenes of a devastated New York City less than three years after the September 11 attacks, Emmerich said that it was necessary to showcase the increased unity of people in the face of disaster because of the attacks.[22][23][24]


Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, an expert on thermohaline circulation and its effect on climate, said after a talk with scriptwriter Jeffrey Nachmanoff at the film's Berlin preview:


The film shows a disastrous and abrupt climate change. Due to man-made global warming, first the Larsen B ice shelf breaks up (this did happen in the real world, see animation of satellite images - allegedly only after the authors had written it into the film). This event is used to introduce the main paleo-climatologist character, Jack Hall, who is drilling out there and narrowly escapes.


Later, in the north, meltwater inflow brings the North Atlantic Current to a halt, causing severe cooling. This happens in a matter of days. A super-storm is triggered by the oceanic shutdown. This covers much of the northern hemisphere in a few giant cyclones. It causes the flooding of Manhattan, huge hailstones in Tokyo, tornados in LA, and several days of severe snow storm covering the entire northern continents. In the eye of these super-cyclones extremely cold air is sucked down from the upper troposphere to the surface and shock-freezes the Manhattan sky-scrapers. When the super-storm clears after some days, most of the northern hemisphere is snow-covered and doomed to a new ice age due to the well-known snow-albedo feedback (i.e., the snow reflects so much sunlight that the climate stays cold).


Using the German climate model ECHAM at the Max-Planck Institute in Hamburg, Professor Sybren Drijfhout from Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton found that, for a period of 20 years, the earth will cool instead of warm if global warming and a collapse of the AMOC occur simultaneously. Thereafter, global warming continues as if the AMOC never collapsed, but with a globally averaged temperature offset of about 0.8C.


Quaid and Gyllenhaal and the small band of New York survivors do what can be done with impossible dialogue in an unlikely situation. And Dr. Lucy Hall (Sela Ward), Jack's wife and Sam's mother, struggles nobly in her subplot, which involves the little cancer patient named Peter. She stays by his side after the hospital is evacuated, calling for an ambulance, which we think is a tad optimistic, since Manhattan has been flooded up to about the eighth floor, the water has frozen, and it's snowing. But does the ambulance arrive? Here's another one for you: Remember those wolves that escaped from the zoo? Think we'll see them again?


After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also shepherding to safety his son, trapped in New York after the city is overwhelmed by the start of the new big freeze.


Researchers analyzing the responses of British filmgoers reported different results. One group found that after watching Day After people were willing to allocate significantly more of a hypothetical charity budget to mitigating climate change. But the film also led viewers to believe climate science predicted a colder future for the U.K. A second group of researchers found that Day After viewers expressed increased concern about climate change, but they could not connect that concern with actions in their everyday lives.


This movie gives us too much destruction to take in, but also too little -- we see only a small group of dead bodies, and the survivors have to deal with problems that are almost quaint and antiseptic compared to the real-life aftermath of lesser disasters. The drama seems curiously muted as well; with the exception of the Vice President's arrogance, just about everyone else is uniformly calm, dedicated, resigned, and heroic. Wouldn't we see some panic? Some selfishness? Some desperation? Some consequences? Combined with preposterous plot turns, this further diminishes the emotional impact of the movie's themes.


In 2004, soon after completing one of the first studies of American views on climate change, I started to see trailers for The Day After Tomorrow (TDAT). Immediately, I could see that it was going to be a Hollywood blockbuster that millions of Americans would watch, and it was going to describe climate change in a completely new way for the public.


Even after controlling for demographic and political factors, people who saw the film became more convinced that climate change was real, became more worried about it, changed their conceptual model of how climate change actually works, became more supportive of climate policy, and became more willing to say that they at least intended to change their behaviors.


Naturally, TDAT spurred a lot of viewers to seek out further information. Many organizations tried to leverage the film to advance the cause of tackling climate change, setting up websites to assist moviegoers who might have questions after seeing the film. Audiences did have questions, but most websites only launched on the day the film came out.


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While visiting Jefferson's Lake, near the town of Beaverton, Cartman manages to persuade Stan to play in his uncle Roy's speed boat. In a throwaway comment, Stan mentions how cool it would be to drive the boat for real, so Cartman pulls the keys from the glove compartment and suggests that they do just that. Stan is hesitant to drive the boat for fear of getting in trouble. Cartman, however, calms his nerves by promising that he would take responsibility if they were to get in trouble. Stan relents and turns on the boat. Immediately losing control of it, the pair accidentally crashing the boat into the world's largest Beaver dam and break it, causing Beaverton to flood soon after. Going back on his promise, Cartman declares that Stan is in big trouble, that the boat was just some guy's boat that he decided to play in and that he has no uncle Roy.


Butters then arrives, informing the hallway of students that they found the cause of the flood, and everyone rushes off, with Stan and Cartman expecting to have been caught. The television reporter informs everyone that the cause is of the flood was Global Warming and that all the rumors were true. The Governor of Colorado assembles all the geologists of Colorado (meaning only Randy Marsh), who he claims the Beaverton flood is only the beginning. He explains that this will only lead to more disasters worse than the flood, and analyzes that it will occur, the day after tomorrow. However, other scientists debate the analysis saying that the end of the world will take place two days before the day after tomorrow. A horrified Randy realizes that means today.


Panic explodes, with everyone running around screaming "We didn't listen!", while running back and forth around town, claiming that Global Warming was chasing after them, when in realiry, there is such phenomenon. Much of the town evacuates to the Park County Community Center, and proceed to barricade themselves inside. Watching the news, the entire country is sharing South Park's panic, with the reporters again sensationalizing the news, claiming massive death tolls that are not true. The townsfolk begin to place blame on one another for the Global warming. Meanwhile, Stan admits to Kyle that he and Cartman were responsible. Cartman upon realizing this, snaps at Stan for his stupidity in trusting Kyle, while Kyle pleads Stan to tell the truth. Cartman tries to turn it around, by suggesting Kyle use his Jew Gold to help the people in Beaverton. Stan, still not wanting to get in trouble, suggests they help the people of Beaverton themselves. 2ff7e9595c


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