In the debate about global warming, both members of the opposing sides on whether or not global warming is man made tend to exagerate their points and in the man made case the consequences. One such example is the movie, The Day After Tomorrow. The events of this movie were pure fiction. Now while it is true that the makers of the movies admitted that what happened in the movie is unrealistic, I would still like to explain why it was an unrealistic.
The main plot of the film is a disaster occurs that affects the whole bothern hemisphere, covering it all in ice essentially causing an ice age. The whole event happens very quickly and is caused by global warming. The first sign that the main character sees of this is a tsunami covering all of New York City in freezing cold water which later turns to snow and ice. This is the first unrealistic part of the movie. A tsunami could not be caused by global warming. The events that could cause a tsunami are an earthquake, landslide and possibly meteor crash in the ocean if it were to hit right and was a big enough meteor.
The next unrealistic event is the three part giant storm that begins to cover the northern hemisphere. For starters, the instant freezing that happened to anything contained within defies the laws of thermodynamics. Also the causing of such a gigantic three part storm in itself is just total nonsense. This confuses climate change with weather that goes far beyond the extremes. So in other words, a ginormous ice storm could not be caused by global warming.
So if anyone has watched or will watch this movie, keep in mind that it is unrealistic, along with many of the similar extremist ideas about the consequences of global warming.
p.s. I actually did enjoy watching the movie. It was well made as long as you keep in mind that it is fiction.
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I have also seen the movie Day After Tomorrow. I actually saw it in my Environmental Science class. Even though everything is completely unreal, the message still held some truth. We should not wait to do something about global warming, until the last minute. We need to start doing something now. What do you think of some of the other main points of this movie regarding global warming?
ReplyDeleteWell the main point of the blog was that global warming will cause the world to end in some way from how it will affect the earth. However, as I have written throughout my blog, global warming is mostly a natural process. I doubt that it is even possible to stop a natural process on such a huge scale like global warming and even if we did it would have catastrophic effects, since our world needs global warming and greenhouse gases so much.
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