Actually, the movie was based on a book by Whitley Streiber and Art Bell, which, in turn, was based on Bell's notion that events in the world are "quickening." Bell even wrote a book (less successful than Day After Tomorrow) and titled it "The Quickening." It's all the new age crackpot nonsense rolled into one goofy mess of a story.
ART BELL?!?! You're kidding! I was told several times by different people that everything in the movie was based on "scientific fact", which led me to assume the nutball theories outlined must derive from Algore's report. And yet that movie, combined with the convenient (for the left) tsunamis are helping to generate paranoid global warmingcooling theories behind all of these "environmental catastrophe" stories in the news