The Day After Tomorrow

I just got back from seeing the movie "Day After Tomorrow". it was
pretty good. great special effects scenes in the LA tornados and the New
York floods. In the movie, it was emphasized that our burning of fossil
fuels was contributing to global warming and therefore hastening the
arrival of the next ice age which is what this movie was basically
portraying.

As far as scientifically accurate, I am curious as to how much was
"hollywood" and what is based in fact keeping in mind that the director's
task was to accelerate several decades of warming into a 2 hour movie. I
couldnt help but notice that this movie was not dissed by the scientific
community like the TV movie "10.5" but rarely has the stupidity of
hollywood reared its ugly head quite that high. In the movie there was a
scene where a group of students were touring the Natural History
Museam in New York. They came upon the Wholly Mammouth display that
mentioned that the beast was found in Siberia perfectly perserved in the
middle of a meal, apparently quick frozen in place.

As for entertainment, it is worth watching. as for accuracy, well who
knows? I guess if the movie becomes popular enough there will be plenty
of comments on both sides of the issue from people supposedly in the
know.

 

hmmm i consider the average film critics knowledge of science laughably lacking.

 

so the movie isnt as far fetched as we all would like
to hope. actually the the lead character in the movie
said that the climate change when it started, would
take 150 years to come to fruitation.

but i think scarier stats are the fact that globally, we
will double the number of autos on the road in the
next 5 years. Scientists now think that due to
acceleration of industry in India and China, that the
world will run out of oil in 40 years. Which means
that we are no longer talking about our
grandchildrens lives or even our childrens lives. now
its our life. a very sobering thing to ponder.

 

yes its true that the generation running the country
seems to not care about the world. but i dont think it
is intentional on their part. I truly believe that most
people dont think air polution and global warming is a
serious threat. They dont connect the health
problems that are springing up all over the place
because it isnt a health issue to them. realize that
many of these people grew up in an era where
premature death happened in virtually every family.

A huge drawback to the advancements in medical
sciences is the blindness to new dieases and trends.
the improvement in health care has far outpaced the
additional health risks we are creating.

Also large improvements in one area polution lulls
people into thinking that all areas are improving
equally. Well that is the case, BUT population growth
and an exponentially growing sources of polution has
completely wiped out most of the improvements.

Some experts believe that we will double the number
of automobiles in the world in only 5 years. Granted
most of the increase will be in emerging industrial
nations like China and India. Granted they are a long
way away from us, but the world, as big as it is, is still
a finite interconnected area. Up until now,
undeveloped areas of the world helped to reduce
polution world wide simply by not adding any.

But that is changing. Here in the US, there is positive
proof of polution traveling several hundred miles to
polute areas that have no polution sources of their
own. I fear that it several years of abuse to get to a
bad place, it will take several years clean living to fix
the mess. (the US dumps over 10 BILLION TONS of
polution into the air every year.) Like a runaway
freight train or even an oil tanker from another thread
here. we may not have the technology to turn things
around if we dont start doing something right away.