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In the film, "The Day After Tomorrow," the world gets gripped in ice within the span of just a few weeks. Now research now suggests an eerily similar event might indeed have occurred in the past. Looking ahead to the future, there is no reason why such a freeze shouldn't happen again - and in ironic fashion it could be precipitated if ongoing changes in climate force the Greenland ice sheet to suddenly melt, scientists say. Starting roughly 12,800 years ago, the Northern Hemisphere was gripped by a chill that lasted some 1,300 years. Known by scientists as the Younger...

This is a little outdated but still an excellent piece. A Hoax to Raise Our Consciousness By William Carden Posted on 6/15/2004 "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...

Early in the Second World War George Orwell famously wrote, "As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me." The irony of that scene, I assume, accounts for the line's enduring fame. Well, let me try some irony on you, "As I write, freezing rain and wind-whipped snow are pelting my roof, rendering me miserable, yet highly civilized human beings are trying to kill me." They actually oppose global warming. Despite the inclement weather, they remonstrate that global warming is an environmental evil, and from universities and media outlets they endeavor to silence anyone who...

"Scientists have an independent obligation to respect and present the truth as they see it," Al Gore sensibly asserts in his film "An Inconvenient Truth", showing at Cumberland 4 Cinemas in Toronto since Jun 2. With that outlook in mind, what do world climate experts actually think about the science of his movie?

"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...

Goofy Movie Is No Concern For Conservatives 2004-06-04 By Mark Green WASHINGTON -- Conservatives are a nervous bunch. When they get together to talk issues, often there's a sky-is-falling quality to the discussion. That's the way it was a couple of weeks ago at a gathering of red-meat, grass-roots types. Along with discussion of the goings-on in Congress and United States policy in Iraq, there was alarm over the summer blockbuster disaster film, "The Day After Tomorrow." The movie stars Dennis Quaid as an eccentric scientist whose global warming warnings get blown off by government officials -- most notably the...

OK everyone. Take a deep breath and remind yourself that this is only a movie...it's only a movie...it's only a movie. You don't have to be a climatologist to figure out the likelihood of a dramatic climate shift (as depicted in the movie) is really really really small...next to impossible actually. Nonetheless, this is a good movie because of the special effects. Seeing LA getting wiped out by multiple tornadoes is incredible. The acting is decent. The plot (involving the people stuck in the NY Library) is believable. The action scenes are well done. Maybe some of you did but...

All, It's here! See "The Day After Tomorrow" in an exclusive, private screening with Glenn Beck and crew. This Friday night at 9:00pm ET, we've rented out the entire theatre, and we're turning the movie into the classic that it deserves to be, complete with scripts of what to be said and when to say it, and running commentary by Glenn and Stu. Think modern-day "Rocky Horror Picture Show!" If you're anywhere near King of Prussia, PA, this is your chance to be part of the Evil Conservative revolution. Reserve now: There are just 300 seats! Tickets must be purchased...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Three moviegoers were caught recording the recently released disaster flick "The Day After Tomorrow" with handheld video cameras in U.S. and Canadian theaters, the Motion Picture Association of America said on Thursday. Two of the purported camcorder pirates were arrested in theaters in Los Angeles and Canada over the weekend trying to record the 20th Century Fox movie on digital video recorders for resale, and a third fled a Los Angeles theater when he was approached by theater personnel, the MPAA said. The practice known as "camcording" -- a misdemeanor crime in California -- allows video...

WASHINGTON, DC, June 2, 2004 -- The new disaster film "The Day After Tomorrow" premiered over Memorial Day weekend. Even before its release, prominent scientists had scoffed at its unsupported premise - that global warming will lead to extremely rapid and cataclysmic freezing of New York City. Because some people may be confused about climate science and global warming, Consumer Alert, sponsor of the website www.globalwarming.org, will feature a noted climatologist and oceanographic expert on its "Live Chat with the Experts" to take visitors' questions on the "science" portrayed in the movie and other questions about global warming. Noted expert...

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 Ice Age Cometh The Day After Tomorrow is full of hot gas. By David Edelstein Posted Thursday, May 27, 2004, at 3:35 PM PT Eco-soap opera gets a rinse The Day After Tomorrow (20th Century Fox) has one of the most absurd and implausible plot turns I've seen in a movie, ever. Global warming melts the polar ice caps, which makes the oceans rise and disrupts the Gulf Stream. There are lethal hailstones in Tokyo and ravaging tornadoes in L.A.; and after New York City is flooded by seawater, the temperature plunges at a rate of 10 degrees per...

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...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Shrek 2" overpowered the new disaster picture "The Day After Tomorrow" to retain the crown at the North American box office during the first three days of the Memorial Day holiday weekend. According to studio estimates issued on Sunday, the cartoon sequel sold about $73.1 million worth of tickets, while "The Day After Tomorrow" opened with $70 million.

Prepare for more religious propaganda: The Day After Tomorrow is the New Left's doomsday evangelism with ecology as its religion. Junk science is sacred to director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, Godzilla) and most of his cast; the press notes read like Earth First! talking points. The Day After Tomorrow does not pretend to be anything else and, whatever one's view of how and whether global warming poses a danger to man, this disaster movie is undeniably bad. The plot presumes environmentalist premises, which leads to wildly irrational notions that the world will end in a week's worth of climate change....

MoveOn.Org has a short article and action item on their web page asking people to hand out flyers and allowing them to "sign up" to be at the theater after screenings of The Day After Tomorrow. I assume the flyers will tell people of the impending death and destruction brought about by my driving an SUV. There aren't many people signed up right now, but anyone inclined to Freep MoveOn?

When I was a Senior Special Agent for NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG) I investigated the Russian Mir Space Station fire and collision, corrupt NASA contractors, problems with the space shuttles, phony astronauts and even a moon rock or two. However, what made my day were the calls I received from people who believed that NASA and the CIA planted transistor radios in their brains, or that NASA was concealing a doomsday comet that was going to wipe out humankind. The movie "The Day After Tomorrow" promises to be great fiction, which will no doubt generate numerous calls to...

It is such a relief to hear the music swell up at the end of a Roland Emmerich movie, its restorative power giving us new hope. Billions of people may have died, but at least the major characters have survived. Los Angeles was wiped out by flying saucers in Emmerich's "Independence Day," New York was assaulted in his "Godzilla," and now, in "The Day After Tomorrow," Emmerich outdoes himself: Los Angeles is leveled by multiple tornados, New York is buried under ice and snow, the United Kingdom is flash-frozen, and lots of the Northern Hemisphere is wiped out for good...

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Roland Emmerich, the German director of "The Day after Tomorrow" made these illuminating remarks in interviews in the German press. It says a lot about him but also about the Hollywood mindset. Here is the German original, the translation of the excerpt is mine. Do you think he would say this to American audiences? Q: Will the anti-Bush mood outside of America be conducive to the success of the film? A: I had no idea that Bush would get up to all the things he did eventually. During the last election campaign I was already writing the script. I hope...

the bitpig rant / hollywood blowsModern movies, practically without exception, blow, and the hype hurricane for Hollywood’s latest disaster blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow is now blowing at full intensity. Washed ashore among its detritus are some of the worst and most unintentionally-funny trailers ever seen by the unaided human eye. Wow! Guys running frantically to escape DEADLY FROST as it covers the Empire State Building — that’s entertainment! Please. Maybe it's just me, but somehow the cinematic spectacle of horrible disasters befalling large office buildings in New York just doesn't entertain like it used to. Besides — who in...

The Day after Tomorrow. One word: Save your money. Go out for a cheese steak and beer instead. I saw the movie with my son at a sneak preview tonight. We were given a free ticket so, what the heck. The flick is a disaster movie with a global warming prelude and epilogue enough to leave a bad taste in your mouth if you know anything at all about the liberal agenda related to global warming.. One of the main characters is Dennis Quaid (sp?), a climatologist whose career got in the way of his family life straining his relationship...

THE NEW MOVIE “The Day After Tomorrow” is being heralded in left-wing circles as a dire warning of the consequences of not acting now to stop global warming. The trouble is, the movie depicts impossible changes in the Earth’s climate, and even though the film’s political supporters acknowledge this, they still promote it as a useful parable. In the movie, global warming shuts down the Gulf Stream, resulting in the rapid onset of an ice age. In response to the film, M.I.T. oceanographer Carl Wunsch wrote last month: “The only way to produce an ocean circulation without a Gulf Stream...

The Day After Tomorrow, a disaster movie coming soon to a theater near you. MoveOn.org has touted the film as, "The Movie the White House Doesn't Want You to See." For once, Moveon.org aka: the Socialist Elite are RIGHT ! Don't watch this movie ! and check out this site: http://www.naurepublicans.com

<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>

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...

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."

Stardom is a gas for Brad and Leo Hollywood stars are easing their consciences by planting forests to make up for the pollution they cause. Robin McKie reports Sunday May 23, 2004 The Observer Brad Pitt and Jake Gyllenhaal are set to begin a major cinematic battle. Pitt is the principal attraction of the newly-released Troy, Hollywood's version of the Iliad, while Gyllenhaal stars in The Day After Tomorrow, the climate-change disaster movie that opens in Britain on Friday. Each film's success will depend heavily on the two actors. But behind their box-office rivalry, the pair share an unexpected environmental...

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...

Dateline New York, October 31, 1938, the New York Times. "A wave of mass hysteria seized thousands of radio listeners between 8:15 and 9:30 o'clock last night when a broadcast of a dramatization of H. G. Wells's fantasy, "The War of the Worlds,'' led thousands to believe that an interplanetary conflict had started with invading Martians spreading wide death and destruction in New Jersey and New York." Citizens filled the streets, police stations and churches. "In Caldwell, N. J., an excited parishioner ran into the First Baptist Church during evening services and shouted that a meteor had fallen, showering death...

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...

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,...

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.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...

<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>

In 1993, CBS aired a miniseries of preposterous exaggeration about global warming, The Fire Next Time. A smart writer--okay, me--wrote of the show: The CBS miniseries depicted a man and boy attempting to travel the Mississippi River in an ecologically ruined United States of the year 2007, a world of searing warmth, sustained droughts, hyper-storms and dangerous exposure to bad dialogue. Conservative critics were aghast, saying the film indoctrinated audiences with greenhouse scenarios far worse than any projected by the most pessimistic computer model. My reaction was the opposite. By trivializing the greenhouse effect into a subject as ludicrous as...

In the final minutes of the Hollywood doomsday spectacular The Day After Tomorrow, which opens in Britain at the end of the month, the US president makes a ludicrously over-the-top State of the Nation speech. It is a great deal less realistic than the performance by the undoubted star of this $125 million blockbuster of a film: a 100 ft high tidal wave that engulfs New York. Indeed, the film loses any credibility long before that. This is not because of any one of the far-fetched incidents that occur in the course of its 125 minutes. It isn't the flash...

Envornmentalists Help Market 'Tomorrow' 20th Century Fox is getting some help in pushing its upcoming big budget disaster picture 'The Day After Tomorrow' as several enviornmentally inclined groups are using the film's Memorial Day weekend release to push their own causes.Advocacy group Moveon.Org said Thursday that it will hold a news conference next week with Al Gore and Harvard University scientist Dan Schrag to outline an upcoming campaign to creat awareness about global warming.Slated to launch the same weekend as the Roland Emmerich helmed 'Tomorrow' MoveOn brass said its campaign will be aimed at 'encouraging a national dialogue on what...

By Roland Emmerich is known for his big-budget special effects movies, including his 1996 blockbuster "Independence Day," and his 1998 clunker, "Godzilla." Now the German producer-director has helmed a new disaster flick, "The Day After Tomorrow," which opens at the end of the month. It is little more than election-year political propaganda. "Ten-thousand years ago, one storm changed the face of our planet," proclaims the film's slickly produced trailer. "On May 28 it will happen again." Indeed, the picture opens with the collapse of an Antarctic ice sheet, which causes a massive change in ocean currents, which shuts down the...

FOX’s global warming thriller THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW is turning into a political lightening rod. A rally featuring former VP and environmental advocate Al Gore will be held a couple of blocks away from the pic’s May 24 preem in Gotham and hosted by MoveOn.org, DAILY VARIETY is reporting on Wednesday. Helmed by director Roland Emmerich, DAY follows the onset of a new Ice Age just three days after the polar ice caps melt. With Emmerich’s penchant for onscreen destruction, the pic includes catastrophic tornadoes touching down in Los Angeles, giant hail in Tokyo and the flooding and freezing of...

Employees at NASA have been told not to comment publicly on FOX's new summer fuss-film THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, a $125 million disaster movie on "global warming." The flick, which depicts how accumulating smokestack and tailpipe gases set off an instant ice age, is set to open on May 28. Few climate experts think such a prospect is likely, the NEW YORK TIMES is planning to report on Sunday, newsroom sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT, but the prospect that moviegoers will be alarmed enough to blame the Bush administration for inattention to climate change has stirred alarm at the space...

<p>Coming to a multiplex near you on May 28 is the global warming disaster movie, “The Day After Tomorrow.” (search) I’ve only seen the trailer, but my money is on the movie, not global warming, being the disaster.</p> <p>Featuring sensational but implausible weather phenomena ¯ such as tornadoes ripping through Los Angeles, a blizzard in New Delhi, grapefruit-sized hail pounding Tokyo and a single day sweltering-to-freezing temperature change in New York City ¯ the movie’s unmistakable purpose is to scare us into submitting to the Greens’ agenda: domination of society through control of energy resources.</p>