DEMS TO RALLY BEHIND 'DAY AFTER'; GORE PLANS SPEECH AT 'GLOBAL WARMING' PREMIERE

Drudge Report ^ | 04/27/2004 | Matt Drudge

[Little Pig]

FOX’s global warming thriller THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW is turning into a political lightening rod.

A rally featuring former VP and environmental advocate Al Gore will be held a couple of blocks away from the pic’s May 24 preem in Gotham and hosted by MoveOn.org, DAILY VARIETY is reporting on Wednesday.

Helmed by director Roland Emmerich, DAY follows the onset of a new Ice Age just three days after the polar ice caps melt. With Emmerich’s penchant for onscreen destruction, the pic includes catastrophic tornadoes touching down in Los Angeles, giant hail in Tokyo and the flooding and freezing of New York.

VARIETY reporter Gabriel Snyder is planning to quote Gore: “THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW presents us with a great opportunity to talk about the scientific realities of climate change. Millions of people will be coming out of theaters on Memorial Day weekend asking the question, ‘Could this really happen?’ I think we need to answer that question.”

FOX spokeswoman Florence Grace said the pic “is meant to entertain audiences with a mix of spectacle and emotion. If it also increases awareness and inspires audiences to take an interest in some of the issues raised in the film, then all the better.”

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[techcor]

Someone should point out that if the predictions are true then relying on solar and windpower would be a disaster.

[Petronski]

The giant earthquake thriller "10.5" is going to be vastly more entertaining, and free on tv.

PREPARE FOR THE NEW WEST COAST

[Little Pig]

Actually, the whole polar cap doesn't have to melt. Just enough to change the salinity in the region. I'm not sure what your reference to Antarctica means, since Antarctica still has an ice cap (nearly a mile thick in some places), as well as some major ice shelfs. I doubt you will find many scientists who will deny that climate change happens, nor all that many who will deny that we may be seeing such a change beginning. The gulfstream shutdown process has been validated by respectable scientists, as has fairly rapid climate change (indeed, the culf current shutdown has been identified specifically as the most likely way to have rapid climate change). Where you get into the Barbara Streisand is when you start claiming that any climate change MUST be the result of HUMAN action (which I studiously did not).

[Patrick1]

Going out on a limb here but I will predict this movie makes less than "The Passion Of The Christ".

How come Algore didn't do something about this coming disaster while he worked for that reprobate?

[wingster]

At least they're intelligent enough to do it when there's a good chance of having it be warm outside as opposed to on one of the coldest days in decades. LOL

[CaptRon]

Wow!

A twofer.

Hollywood revisionism about pseudo-science.

[Centurion2000]

bump

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

Where you get into the Barbara Streisand is when you start claiming that any climate change MUST be the result of HUMAN action (which I studiously did not).

I agree, as I said to do that in three days would take a solar storm or some other extreame nautural phenonomen. Ice ages do happen and have yet to be caused by man. Therories as how they happen are therories, I do not prescribe to the polar change in salinity as a cause of the ice age, though it could cause a temporary shift in weather. Once melted the fresh water mixes with salt water. Not right away but quickly enough that a decades or century long ice age would not happnen.

[Junior]

Go see it anyway, and liberals be damned! I love disaster movies, and this one seems to have better production values than most, so I plan to see it.

[JimRed]

Oh. it's "Day After Tomorrow", Not "The Day After". Wasn't "The Day After" another lefty propaganda piece about the aftermath of a nuclear war?

[SF Republican]

Onset of the ice age AFTER the polar cap melts?

[Psalm 73]

Is he any relation to the segregationist/Socialist Senator Gore from Tennesee back, I think, in the early 60's?

[SF Republican]

Who is this "Al Gore" fellow they're talking about? he invented the ice age

[Psalm 73]

"...segregationist/Socialist Senator Gore from Tennesee..."

And didn't he have a son named Albert who was a little, uh, slow?

[hattend]

There are two good reasons to see SM2...Kirsten Dunst. ;)

Kirsten lost me as an admirer by being a "honored guest" at the Washington Death March last weekend.

[mewzilla]

So how are the VIPs getting there? Fuel-guzzling private jets? What are they going to be chauffered around in? Gas-guzzling limos? Give me a freaking break.

[CharlieOK1]

Hilarious!

[Crusher138]

So the polar ice cap melts, dumping fresh water into the north Atlantic and shutting down the Gulf Stream current. This shut down causes a new ice age, and, obviously, a reformation of the polar ice caps.

Wouldn't the current restart when the temperature disparity between the now refrozen north pole and still warm equator causes the original conditions to reappear? It may take a few years, but if the original event happened quickly, couldn't the "natural balance" also happen quickly?

[TheBigB]

True...Thora Birch, too. :(

[Labyrinthos]

The basic premise of this idea is...

You explained the theory much simplier than I could have. There are some -- including myself -- that believe we are still in the last ice age and that global warming is the process of returning to the norm, and then at some point temperatures will exceed the norm and the next cyclical ice age will egin and last another 10,000 to 20,000 years.