Has anybody noticed the parallels between the movie "Day After Tommorow" and the current weather patterns?

Question

Please, I know this movie was was a work of fiction.

However, you have to be stunned at some of the foresight of the current events and global warming effects.

Please share your thoughts on this.

-Shuxs

Answer 1

The movie is based on what is really happening, but speeded way way up. What are you gonna do??

Answer 2

It is not a new theory that arctic melting could result in an undersea current that would result in a steep decline in world temperature.

But know that it isn't just that the movie is a work of fiction - its science is completely fictional as well. The world isn't going to freeze in weeks. The "global chill" models generally refer to timeframes that are years if not decades in the making. I really wouldn't be reading an awful lot into a few Eastern seaboard storms. Whether is very complex, and global warming is a general median trend, not a daily noticeable thing.

Answer 3

There is no similarity at all.

Twenty to thirty years ago, everyone was worried about global cooling. No its global warming. Fear sells and the popular press likes to keep everyone in suspense to generate more income. It is complete nonsense.

Weather patterns are constantly changing and there is very little we can do about it because most of the changes come from activity on the sun, gravitational pull of the planets and the moon, shifting tectonic plates, and other things that we have net even thought off yet.

FACT: For example, long ago the moon was much closer to earth - the tide and waves were much bigger and the earths "wobble" was much smaller. As the moon continues to move away from earth (and it will), the time and waves will get smaller and the wobble will increase. As the wobble increases, weather patterns will become more volatile and less predictable. There is nothing we can do about it. Luckily for us, we will be long gone before any of this has any serious effect.

We (and our effect on the planet) are insignificant in the big scheme of things. Anyone one who says differently is just playing an angle for personal gain.

Just my opinion.

Answer 4

The movie has some scientific basis.

But storms form due to the elevated temperature of the atmosphere, and have more energy for the same reason.

But the world will not be destroyed in three days. These storms would be ongoing for years, if not centuries.

Answer 5

the whole point of the movie was to get us to think about what we're doing to collaborate with global warming. The movie bends science to accomodate to what is going on today. The actual science is not that violent.

It was predicted that social panic and paranoia would arise from this movie, and you're living proof of it.

Answer 6

I agree! We had rain that would drizzle under dark cliuds than pour rain for about an hour...then when the sun came out it would drizzle it went on for two days!!! Maybe these things are happening for a reason...to scare the crap outta us...LoL

Answer 7

They seem to be based on a similar model - either of which may or may not bear out the end result accurately.

Answer 8

We live in the end times. The events of TDAT were exagerated for dramatic purposes, however, it is happening as we speak nontheless.

Answer 9

No relation what so ever. Go back to school and study climatology to get the real question so you can find the answer.

Answer 10

Yes. Even though it did come out two years ago, I still look at it, and it is very simaliar to a startling point