I have started a topic for those environmentalists and other peope who have seen the popular, controversial movie The Day After Tomorrow.
I saw The Day After Tomorrow last night, and i have developed a theory about the motive behind the movie. But before I launch into my lecture, I want to give a short summary of the story...
The major plot behind the story is a major climate shift that threatens the entire earth. Due to an overuse of fossil fuels, the polar ice caps begin to melt at an alarming rate. the sudden increase in freswater being spilled into the ocean from the melting the ice caps disrupts the North Atlantic Current, which carries warm water from the Equator into the northern areas, thus warming the north. The result is a major climate imbalance that results in the formation of three huge "polarcanes". The "polarcanes"are gargantuan hurricane-like storms that feed not on heat, but a lack of it. The storms cover almost the entire landmass on Earth, and draw supercooled air from the mesosphere, thus causing massive temperature drops that can reach -150 degrees Farenheit, and instantly freezing anything - including humans - that are in the eye. Acoording to the on in charge of predicting the storms - a Paleoclimatolgist, or one who studies prehistoric weather and climate patterns - the phenomonon has only occured once, and it resulted in the start of the Ice Age. Meanwhile, the paleoclimatologist in question embarks on a journey through the icy storm to rescue his son - who has been stranded in the Manhattan Library after his field trip - in NYC, where the eye of the North American "polarcane" currently engulfs.
Now back to my theory. everyone that has a good news channel and half an eye knows that all that President Bush cares about is oil. He was even attempting to cancel protection on certain national parks - Yellowstone, for example - just so he could drill them for oil. now, everyone knows that the main uses for oil - power plants and Internal Combustion Engines (ICE's) - produce the main causes for the increase in greenhouse gases. so if Bush continues his quest for oil, the greenhouse gases will eventually rise in concentration. My theory is that the person who wrote the script for The Day After Tomorrow was rubbed the wrong way by Bush's oil campaign, and decided to write the movie to open our eyes to the fragile state of our environment and "scare" us into getting rid of Bush to save it. The scary thing about it is that while the chances of a sudden global climate shift like the one described in the movie is next to impossible, the scientific facts in the movie make it seem very plausible. In short, my theory is that the movie was meant to scare people away from enviromnment-harming decisons and people who make them (like Bush) by showing them what could happen. any comments on the subject would be appreciated.
Archmage
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