The Day After Tomorrow: Could it Really Happen?
The June 2004 film "The Day After Tomorrow" presents
a fictional story about what could happen to the global climate
system as a result of greenhouse gas buildup in our atmosphere.
How many of the events portrayed in the movie are wildly implausible?
How much is based on sound scientific studies? See the following
scientific organizations' takes on the climate change scenarios
in the film:
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In the
movie, human activity
triggers a sudden ice age.
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CLIMATE FILM
PUT TO COMPUTER TEST
A worldwide experiment to test the plausibility of the disaster
movie The Day After Tomorrow starts on 22 June. Computer users across
the world are being invited to download and run a climate model
of what may happen this century. The test will see how predictions
may change if the behaviour of the Gulf Stream is affected, as the
film shows. The project is the work of climateprediction.net,
a consortium of UK universities and the Met Office.
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