“the science”
Like Howard Hughes watching the movie ‘Ice Station Zebra’ over-and-over, Barry sits in front of a big screen TV, feet in empty Kleenex boxes, saving his urine in jars, chomping Nicorette gum and watching ‘ The Day After Tomorrow’ over-and-over.
See, in that movie the guy who played the VP and stubbornly resisted the opinions of gay scientists that ‘climate change’ (then ‘global warming’) was real was also a dead ringer for Dick Cheney.
Anyway, one of the scientists, one of the Quaid boys—not ‘Cousin Eddie’!—was, passionately convinced that the science was there, and his son, the guy with the last name no one can spell ... he was really smart too and convinced when it actually happened, and they were both really cute, so there it is.