[cake_crumb]

"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

[Wolfstar]

ART BELL?!?! You're kidding!

Art Bell and Whitley Streiber wrote "The Coming Global Superstorm," on which the movie was based. On Streiber's website, the description of "Superstorm" is "The book that inspired the Day After Tomorrow! Now with a new afterword by Whitley and Art." Bell and Streiber had been hawking "Superstorm" for at least a couple of years before the movie was made.

Then Streiber wrote a book titled "The Day After Tomorrow," which is based on the movie -- to take advantage, in book sales, of the movie sales. The description on his website for this tome is "First, Whitley and Art wrote the book that inspired the movie. Now Whitley's written the book inspired BY the movie!"

The only thing scientific about any of this is the following formula:

Gullible people + smooth-talking con artists with new age radio show + Hollywood Leftists who saw an opportunity to not-so-subtly bash GWB and Dick Cheney before the 2004 election = pathetic, but money-making movie .