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"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...

Brokers gather to trade emissions credits As carbon dioxide emissions continue to be a problem, Europe takes the lead in the fight against global warming. Buyers, sellers, brokers and lawyers, even ''specialists in carbon asset creation management,'' convene Wednesday on the banks of the Rhine to launch a new business for a worried world. CarbonExpo, in the cavernous congress halls of Cologne, Germany, is a three-day trade fair for those who would deal in carbon dioxide -- buying and selling permits to discharge the waste gas chiefly blamed for global warming. This carbon trading is a Europe-wide effort to use...

SANTA CRUZ — Miss Santa during the summer months? Well, he will be in town June 12, but this time he is a man with a mission. As part of a global warming demonstration, Santa will hold a press conference on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk at 11 a.m. Santa’s unusual visit to Santa Cruz is because global warming causes the North Pole to melt during the summer months, environmentalists say. Organized by the environmental groups Duyure Adelante, Green House Network and Campaign Earth, "Save Santa’s Home" demonstrations will take place June 12 in cities across the country. Duyure Adelante...

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 consequences of global warming portrayed in The Day After Tomorrow are so absurd that even the hysterics in the US green movement reportedly feared audiences would laugh it out of the cinema. However, the scientific proponents (and massive financial beneficiaries) of the greenhouse effect are more hopeful. The general line from climate scientists in the US, the UK and Australia has been that while the science is bad, the film could be helpful in raising awareness of the consequences of climate change. It is revealing that they apparently don't see anything wrong with using bad science to push their...

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...

So what will life be like this Saturday -- the day after "The Day After Tomorrow" opens? Will Bush's reelection campaign be finished and John Kerry guaranteed the presidency, as the Guardian newspaper has predicted? Will environmentalists seize their "teachable moment", harness a fearful and outraged public, and strongarm Congress into "seeing the light" and resuscitating the Kyoto Protocol? In other words, will liberals get their fairy tale ending? In a word: Nope. For the most part, "The Day After Tomorrow" is your typical disaster movie, albeit one that combines virtually every weather disaster you can imagine. It's a chance...

The press was banned from the after-party for Roland Emmerich's "The Day After Tomorrow" last night — a bad sign, and a sure sign that the movie was no good. Even this reporter, who gets his paycheck from the same company which made the film, 20th Century Fox, was unceremoniously booted from the Museum of Natural History as everyone else who'd endured the two-hour-plus ordeal filed by for the free food and cocktails. A publicist for Fox — who bragged about my expulsion later to paparazzi — actually said to me, "It sounds like you're going to blackmail us. If...

As a scientist, I bristle when lies dressed up as "science" are used to influence political discourse. The latest example is the global-warming disaster flick, The Day After Tomorrow. This film is propaganda designed to shift the policy of this nation on climate change. At least that's what I take from producer Mark Gordon's comment that "part of the reason we made this movie" was to "raise consciousness about the environment."

Those of us old enough to remember the 1970s sometimes think of it as the era of the bad disaster movie. Well, get ready for some cinematic déjà vu. Sure, the upcoming film “The Day After Tomorrow” has a bigger budget and better special effects. But it flaunts the same lack of scientific credibility as, say, “Jaws” once did. This time the culprit is carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas we exhale every time we breathe. CO2 is also produced when we burn fossil fuels. In the film, CO2 causes global warming. An Antarctic ice sheet melts. The oceans cool...

The Day After "The Day After Tomorrow" By Robert Balling Everyone loves to talk about the weather, and leave it to Hollywood to capitalize on our fascination with the atmosphere. Some of the greatest movie scenes of all times have featured incredible lightning, hurricanes, droughts, tornadoes, blizzards, floods, dust storms, heat waves, and every conceivable (and inconceivable) perfect and imperfect storm. Kevin Costner's 1995 Waterworld warned of a sweltering world of rising seas and reduced land areas thanks to elevated levels of greenhouse gases. But now, Hollywood has decided to entertain (or scare) us with a fascinating twist to the...

(CNSNews.com) - When a Hollywood disaster movie opens on Memorial Day weekend, there may be some drama outside the movie theater as well as inside: Liberal and conservative groups are both recruiting volunteers to hand out flyers explaining the "facts" on global warming. "The Day After Tomorrow" is a climate disaster movie about the apocalyptic effects of global warming. It is, by all accounts, more fiction than fact -- but even so, liberal activists at MoveOn.org believe "everyone will be talking about it -- and asking 'Could it really happen?'" MoveOn.org says the movie premiere offers "an unprecedented opportunity...

Fresh off the contrived controversy of Michael Moore accusing Disney of censorship for refusing to distribute his anti-Bush celluloid screed comes another politically charged film. The Day After Tomorrow, a flick that purports to warn about destruction wrought by global warming, crashes into multiplexes across the land on May 28. Already, Al Gore and the lefty Internet clearing house MoveOn.org are planning to exploit the movie's New York premiere with a rally the same day. MoveOn.org is calling it "the movie the White House doesn't want you to see." The Day After Tomorrow is being released by Twentieth Century Fox,...

The fatuous new special-effects extravaganza The Day After Tomorrow (which, judging from the plot summaries so far released might just as well have been called Love in a Cold Climate) seems to have spurred Al Gore to think he's Roger Ebert. Ignoring both the movie's offenses against the laws of physics and the fact that it will simply make Rupert Murdoch (owner of the distributor Twentieth Century Fox) richer, the former vice president has called on Americans to see the film. Al's reasoning is not that he's been bought by Murdoch (he's actually working with MoveOn.org, financed by another billionaire,...

MoveOn, Gore Push Movie to Promote Global Warming AgendaBy Jimmy Moore Talon News May 13, 2004 Liberal online political action group MoveOn.org, along with help from former Vice President Al Gore, is actively promoting an upcoming Hollywood film to promote their agenda about global warming."The Day After Tomorrow," a $125 million movie starring Dennis Quaid, depicts the alleged negative effects of global warming. It is scheduled to be released to theaters on May 28, 2004 by 20th Century Fox.MoveOn.org states in an e-mail to supporters that this "fun" movie is "making the Bush administration very nervous.""In fact, they'd rather...

MoveOn.org is encouraging supporters to use the movie as a political tool to promote the liberal environmental position on global warming.

(CNSNews.com) - Former Vice President Al Gore warned of a "climate emergency" on Tuesday as he joined forces with political activists from MoveOn.org to promote a Hollywood disaster film that shows global warming creating an ice age and causing massive destruction. The Day After Tomorrow , a 20th Century Fox production set for release on Memorial Day, stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Dennis Quaid. The $125-million movie will offer "a rare opportunity to have a national conversation about what truly should be seen as a global climate emergency," Gore told reporters. "I hope this movie will provide many opportunities for in-depth...

Never mind the weather overkill: scientists praise Hollywood's global warning Paul Brown, Tim Radford and John Vidal Thursday May 13, 2004 The Guardian Hail stones the size of tennis balls are knocking people out in Japan. Shortly afterwards it is snowing in India. But that is only the beginning. The fuel in the helicopters sent to rescue the royal family in Balmoral freezes in flight and within days all those living north of Washington have been abandoned by the US military as beyond help of evacuation. Meanwhile, those from the southern states plead for refugee status in Mexico as they...

(CNSNews.com) - Former Vice President Al Gore warned of a "climate emergency" on Tuesday as he joined forces with political activists from MoveOn.org to promote a Hollywood disaster film that shows global warming creating an ice age and causing massive destruction. The Day After Tomorrow , a 20th Century Fox production set for release on Memorial Day, stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Dennis Quaid. The $125-million movie will offer "a rare opportunity to have a national conversation about what truly should be seen as a global climate emergency," Gore told reporters. "I hope this movie will provide many opportunities for in-depth...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Al Gore says people should see the upcoming movie "The Day After Tomorrow," in which global warming suddenly creates a new ice age that freezes entire cities.</p> <p>Scientists and Gore agree that the movie is loose with the scientific facts, but the Democratic presidential nominee in 2000 said he hopes the film will get people to start talking about climate change.</p>