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In the film, "The Day After Tomorrow," the world gets gripped in ice within the span of just a few weeks. Now research now suggests an eerily similar event might indeed have occurred in the past. Looking ahead to the future, there is no reason why such a freeze shouldn't happen again - and in ironic fashion it could be precipitated if ongoing changes in climate force the Greenland ice sheet to suddenly melt, scientists say. Starting roughly 12,800 years ago, the Northern Hemisphere was gripped by a chill that lasted some 1,300 years. Known by scientists as the Younger...

This is a little outdated but still an excellent piece. A Hoax to Raise Our Consciousness By William Carden Posted on 6/15/2004 "The science and evidence in Roland Emmerich's anticipated blockbuster Independence Day may be flawed and the posited scenario may be impossible as far as we know, but the movie has the potential to do a lot of good. It will raise awareness of the possibility that a race of hostile aliens may someday attempt to exterminate humanity. What's more, it may convince the White House to address this pressing issue." Is there any chance that a paragraph like...

Early in the Second World War George Orwell famously wrote, "As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me." The irony of that scene, I assume, accounts for the line's enduring fame. Well, let me try some irony on you, "As I write, freezing rain and wind-whipped snow are pelting my roof, rendering me miserable, yet highly civilized human beings are trying to kill me." They actually oppose global warming. Despite the inclement weather, they remonstrate that global warming is an environmental evil, and from universities and media outlets they endeavor to silence anyone who...

"Scientists have an independent obligation to respect and present the truth as they see it," Al Gore sensibly asserts in his film "An Inconvenient Truth", showing at Cumberland 4 Cinemas in Toronto since Jun 2. With that outlook in mind, what do world climate experts actually think about the science of his movie?

"The science and evidence in Roland Emmerich's anticipated blockbuster Independence Day may be flawed and the posited scenario may be impossible as far as we know, but the movie has the potential to do a lot of good. It will raise awareness of the possibility that a race of hostile aliens may someday attempt to exterminate humanity. What's more, it may convince the White House to address this pressing issue." Is there any chance that a paragraph like that would have made it onto the editorial page of a major newspaper in anticipation of Roland Emmerich's mid-nineties blockbuster? Doubtful. And...

Goofy Movie Is No Concern For Conservatives 2004-06-04 By Mark Green WASHINGTON -- Conservatives are a nervous bunch. When they get together to talk issues, often there's a sky-is-falling quality to the discussion. That's the way it was a couple of weeks ago at a gathering of red-meat, grass-roots types. Along with discussion of the goings-on in Congress and United States policy in Iraq, there was alarm over the summer blockbuster disaster film, "The Day After Tomorrow." The movie stars Dennis Quaid as an eccentric scientist whose global warming warnings get blown off by government officials -- most notably the...

OK everyone. Take a deep breath and remind yourself that this is only a movie...it's only a movie...it's only a movie. You don't have to be a climatologist to figure out the likelihood of a dramatic climate shift (as depicted in the movie) is really really really small...next to impossible actually. Nonetheless, this is a good movie because of the special effects. Seeing LA getting wiped out by multiple tornadoes is incredible. The acting is decent. The plot (involving the people stuck in the NY Library) is believable. The action scenes are well done. Maybe some of you did but...

All, It's here! See "The Day After Tomorrow" in an exclusive, private screening with Glenn Beck and crew. This Friday night at 9:00pm ET, we've rented out the entire theatre, and we're turning the movie into the classic that it deserves to be, complete with scripts of what to be said and when to say it, and running commentary by Glenn and Stu. Think modern-day "Rocky Horror Picture Show!" If you're anywhere near King of Prussia, PA, this is your chance to be part of the Evil Conservative revolution. Reserve now: There are just 300 seats! Tickets must be purchased...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Three moviegoers were caught recording the recently released disaster flick "The Day After Tomorrow" with handheld video cameras in U.S. and Canadian theaters, the Motion Picture Association of America said on Thursday. Two of the purported camcorder pirates were arrested in theaters in Los Angeles and Canada over the weekend trying to record the 20th Century Fox movie on digital video recorders for resale, and a third fled a Los Angeles theater when he was approached by theater personnel, the MPAA said. The practice known as "camcording" -- a misdemeanor crime in California -- allows video...

WASHINGTON, DC, June 2, 2004 -- The new disaster film "The Day After Tomorrow" premiered over Memorial Day weekend. Even before its release, prominent scientists had scoffed at its unsupported premise - that global warming will lead to extremely rapid and cataclysmic freezing of New York City. Because some people may be confused about climate science and global warming, Consumer Alert, sponsor of the website www.globalwarming.org, will feature a noted climatologist and oceanographic expert on its "Live Chat with the Experts" to take visitors' questions on the "science" portrayed in the movie and other questions about global warming. Noted expert...

The roots of enviro-hysteria Peter Foster Financial Post June 2, 2004 Some of the environmentally concerned are not happy with The Day After Tomorrow. They worry that the Mother of all Disaster Movies, in which the Earth's climate shifts into a new Ice Age over a long weekend, will feed skepticism about global warming. As an antidote, the mediasphere is about to be hit with a shower of new and recycled disaster books. I learned all this in last Sunday's New York Times. Recently, we have been treated to yet another of the Times's bouts of editorial soul-searching, this time...

The Ice Age Cometh The Day After Tomorrow is full of hot gas. By David Edelstein Posted Thursday, May 27, 2004, at 3:35 PM PT Eco-soap opera gets a rinse The Day After Tomorrow (20th Century Fox) has one of the most absurd and implausible plot turns I've seen in a movie, ever. Global warming melts the polar ice caps, which makes the oceans rise and disrupts the Gulf Stream. There are lethal hailstones in Tokyo and ravaging tornadoes in L.A.; and after New York City is flooded by seawater, the temperature plunges at a rate of 10 degrees per...

Promoters of the global warming disaster movie "The Day After Tomorrow" must believe most of us were born yesterday. As most movie fans know, the much-hyped film focuses on a global apocalypse of cataclysmic floods, tornadoes, storms and blizzards that threaten to destroy civilization. Two hundred and ninety-foot tidal waves surge across New York Harbor and dash against Manhattan's skyscrapers, followed by a quick freeze that leaves Manhattan enshrouded in ice. Dozens of other cities get hammered. A tornado levels Los Angeles, five-pound hailstones bombard Tokyo and San Francisco Bay freezes. It's a New Ice Age. It's the latest brainstorm...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Shrek 2" overpowered the new disaster picture "The Day After Tomorrow" to retain the crown at the North American box office during the first three days of the Memorial Day holiday weekend. According to studio estimates issued on Sunday, the cartoon sequel sold about $73.1 million worth of tickets, while "The Day After Tomorrow" opened with $70 million.

Prepare for more religious propaganda: The Day After Tomorrow is the New Left's doomsday evangelism with ecology as its religion. Junk science is sacred to director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, Godzilla) and most of his cast; the press notes read like Earth First! talking points. The Day After Tomorrow does not pretend to be anything else and, whatever one's view of how and whether global warming poses a danger to man, this disaster movie is undeniably bad. The plot presumes environmentalist premises, which leads to wildly irrational notions that the world will end in a week's worth of climate change....

MoveOn.Org has a short article and action item on their web page asking people to hand out flyers and allowing them to "sign up" to be at the theater after screenings of The Day After Tomorrow. I assume the flyers will tell people of the impending death and destruction brought about by my driving an SUV. There aren't many people signed up right now, but anyone inclined to Freep MoveOn?

When I was a Senior Special Agent for NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG) I investigated the Russian Mir Space Station fire and collision, corrupt NASA contractors, problems with the space shuttles, phony astronauts and even a moon rock or two. However, what made my day were the calls I received from people who believed that NASA and the CIA planted transistor radios in their brains, or that NASA was concealing a doomsday comet that was going to wipe out humankind. The movie "The Day After Tomorrow" promises to be great fiction, which will no doubt generate numerous calls to...

It is such a relief to hear the music swell up at the end of a Roland Emmerich movie, its restorative power giving us new hope. Billions of people may have died, but at least the major characters have survived. Los Angeles was wiped out by flying saucers in Emmerich's "Independence Day," New York was assaulted in his "Godzilla," and now, in "The Day After Tomorrow," Emmerich outdoes himself: Los Angeles is leveled by multiple tornados, New York is buried under ice and snow, the United Kingdom is flash-frozen, and lots of the Northern Hemisphere is wiped out for good...

The Day After Tomorrow Part 2.........

Roland Emmerich, the German director of "The Day after Tomorrow" made these illuminating remarks in interviews in the German press. It says a lot about him but also about the Hollywood mindset. Here is the German original, the translation of the excerpt is mine. Do you think he would say this to American audiences? Q: Will the anti-Bush mood outside of America be conducive to the success of the film? A: I had no idea that Bush would get up to all the things he did eventually. During the last election campaign I was already writing the script. I hope...