2007-02-14 21:40:08 · 12 answers · asked by mat s 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
ice ages are due to changes in the earths orbit around the sun, which periodicly consipire to create a minimum of summer sunlight in the arctic regions. the 3 most important factors are the tilt of earths rotational axis(varies every 41,000 years), changes in the orbit around the sun (every 23,000 years) and changes in the shape of the elliptical orbit (every 100,000 years) ice ages occur every 100,000 years but mini ice ages can occur every 1,500 years or so, these are more difficult to predict and depent on changes in the ocean currents. the next ice ace is several millenia away however a mini one could be just around the corner due to the impact our activities are having on the environment
2007-02-18 02:36:29 · answer #1 · answered by malibuisace 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That movie was quite dumb--I was really disappointed, because the issue in the movie (a global-warming-induced ice age) was the topic of a research paper that I did for my climatology class in school (years before the movie came out, mind you).
Don't get me wrong, the problem of global warming is very real, and the possibility of hastening the next ice age via global warming is certainly real (by means of shutting down ocean currents etc.), but the movie exaggerated, warped, distorted and downright falsified the details of the scenario so badly that no one in their right mind would take it seriously, based on the movie.
How is anyone ever going to take a problem seriously when the only way in which they're exposed to it is through the special-effects-bonanza lens of Hollywood? I was seriously disappointed.
2007-02-17 18:51:14 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The movie already DID occur in my lifetime.
The best part of that movie was the media guy getting smacked by the sign. "Day After Tomorrow" will not happen any time... ok, well, Saturday is the day after tomorrow and it will happen soon...
but anyway, the movie could only be 2 hours or so in length, so they had to to the Hollywood spin thing and throw a lot of bad weather together in the span of a movie. And also some wolves and a medical emergency to keep you from falling asleep...
2007-02-14 21:43:35 · answer #3 · answered by scruffycat 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The likelihood of super-mega storms that can freeze a man solid in 3 seconds is ZERO.
It is thermodynamically impossible.
Even a person exposed to the vacuum of space wouldn't freeze like that.
30 years ago everyone was worried about "Global Cooling"
now it's "Global Warming"
Any honest scientist will tell you that trying to predict the climate is mostly guesswork, using unsolvable equations (Navier-Stokes equations) and lots of fudge factors.
If the global warming computer model doesn't predict warming, it is "wrong" and changed.
Even if the Earth does heat up a couple degrees in 100 years, our technology will be so advanced by then that we'll be able to control the climate anyway.
2007-02-14 23:56:16 · answer #4 · answered by Ken O 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They say it wont happen for hundreds of years, but to be honest i dont really think they can tell, nearly every other day there are new developments saying that global warming is actually worse than they thought, and that the ice is melting a lot quicker... I dont think that what happended in the day after tommorro will happen in our life time. But i do think that we will have some crazy sh!t weather, I think the summers will get hotter and the winters will get wetter every year... as they have been i think we will be getting tropical storms in the next couple of years too....
But hey, what do i know!
Peace
2007-02-14 21:46:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unlikely! The doom mongers will all say that it is down to global warming by man - which to a degree is true - but at least the scientists have been honest and said that this is also part of earth's natural cycle - it has happend before and will happen again and again and again! For as long as the earth spins the cycle will remain!
We will just have to live with it - Mother Earth will deal out what she wants to and Scientists, Governents, You nor I will be able to stop her! Circle of Life and all that!
2007-02-14 21:45:55 · answer #6 · answered by jamand 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scientists generally believe that super-storms like the one in the movie are impossible. The sun doesn't put enough energy into the atmosphere to allow a hurricane more intense than category 5.
2007-02-14 21:56:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was strictly science fiction,but a pretty good one.
The front that moved in and froze those guys in their tracks,could not be.
A hurricane is a heat transfer machine,not a refrigeration system.
2007-02-15 01:21:46 · answer #8 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if your going to be born in about 250 years time
2007-02-14 21:48:57 · answer #9 · answered by havanadig 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I bloody hope not.. Everytime we get a bad weather warning i think of that film and cack myself!!
Bloody good film but wish i never watched it
2007-02-14 21:48:28 · answer #10 · answered by tweetypie771 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋