DAY AFTER TOMORROW
A review on the movie Day after tomorrow is provided which shows the viewers the effects of global warming. The movie gives us a preview of what can actually happen if there is a change in our climate system. The world as we know it is a very busy place in terms of the economy and production activities.
In this movie a change in the weather pattern are noticed by the break off of the Larsen B shelf. The Larsen B shelf is 200 metres thick and has a surface area of 3,250 square kilometres and form part of the Antarctic ice shelf [1]. Furthermore, is the conveyor belt that is generated at the Antarctic’s by the sinking of deep water. Since the conveyor belt are responsible for temperatures for certain northern hemisphere countries. The increasing of excess precipitation river runoff or ice melt into the conveyor belt could weaken or it shut down, which can lead to freezing of these countries [2].
Thereafter scientist shows in the movie how the circulation of conveyor belt regulates the climate systems around continents. The movie mainly focused on the city of New York and Manhattan, the northern regions of the United States of America. As the conveyor belt stops then raindrops as big as soccer balls fall from the sky on regions in the northern hemisphere. The reason why these continents and cities are affected by these climatic changes are illustrated in the movie and a model that predicts what can happen shows how severe places will be affected by a slight change in temperature. But in this movie the model didn’t predict how quick a change in climate could result and the vice president actually ignore the climatologist prediction. This should not surprise the viewer because in reality governments are aware of such unstable climate events; to me this is total ignorance.
Since most northern hemisphere regions are affected by these climatic events. Cities become flooded which are followed with a drop temperature as the eye of the hurricanes moves over cities. Several people get trapped and drowned by floods and some even gets frozen. Thousands of people and objects get immediately frozen within a day if they were not kept warm. These sudden changes in temperature I think are exaggerated by the producers of the movie because I don’t think things can freeze that quickly or can they?
As a result many people died of these cold temperatures this is actually a devastated event that can happen. Since something like this was illustrated by the movie, can you imagine how such an ice age event can influence northern hemisphere countries or southern hemisphere countries? This is definitely a wake up call for us as human beings to act more responsible, if we want to continue our existence on planet earth, as Mother Nature doesn’t like to be mess around with.
I think that a change in climate is a gradual process and not as sudden like depicted by the movie. The movie is scientific enough but because it focused mostly on America and the “un educated person” takes it as another Hollywood production (fiction). It is for this reason that people don’t take climate change as a serious man extinction event.
[1] BBC News. Sci/Tech [Internet]. Antarctic ice shelf breaks apart [cited 2006 August 3]. Available from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1880566.stm
[2] UNEP. Great Ocean Conveyor Belt [Internet]. Potential Impact of Climate change. [cited 2006 August 3]. Available from: http://www.grida.no/climate/vital/32.htm
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1.I know that plagiarism is wrong. Plagiarism is to use another’s work and to pretend that it is one’s own.
2. I have used the CSE/CBE convention for citation and referencing. Each significant contribution to, and quotation in this project from the work, or works, of other people has been attributed, and has been cited and referenced.
3. This assignment is my own work.
4. I have not allowed, and will not allow anyone to copy my work with the intention of passing it off as his or her own work.
In this movie a change in the weather pattern are noticed by the break off of the Larsen B shelf. The Larsen B shelf is 200 metres thick and has a surface area of 3,250 square kilometres and form part of the Antarctic ice shelf [1]. Furthermore, is the conveyor belt that is generated at the Antarctic’s by the sinking of deep water. Since the conveyor belt are responsible for temperatures for certain northern hemisphere countries. The increasing of excess precipitation river runoff or ice melt into the conveyor belt could weaken or it shut down, which can lead to freezing of these countries [2].
Thereafter scientist shows in the movie how the circulation of conveyor belt regulates the climate systems around continents. The movie mainly focused on the city of New York and Manhattan, the northern regions of the United States of America. As the conveyor belt stops then raindrops as big as soccer balls fall from the sky on regions in the northern hemisphere. The reason why these continents and cities are affected by these climatic changes are illustrated in the movie and a model that predicts what can happen shows how severe places will be affected by a slight change in temperature. But in this movie the model didn’t predict how quick a change in climate could result and the vice president actually ignore the climatologist prediction. This should not surprise the viewer because in reality governments are aware of such unstable climate events; to me this is total ignorance.
Since most northern hemisphere regions are affected by these climatic events. Cities become flooded which are followed with a drop temperature as the eye of the hurricanes moves over cities. Several people get trapped and drowned by floods and some even gets frozen. Thousands of people and objects get immediately frozen within a day if they were not kept warm. These sudden changes in temperature I think are exaggerated by the producers of the movie because I don’t think things can freeze that quickly or can they?
As a result many people died of these cold temperatures this is actually a devastated event that can happen. Since something like this was illustrated by the movie, can you imagine how such an ice age event can influence northern hemisphere countries or southern hemisphere countries? This is definitely a wake up call for us as human beings to act more responsible, if we want to continue our existence on planet earth, as Mother Nature doesn’t like to be mess around with.
I think that a change in climate is a gradual process and not as sudden like depicted by the movie. The movie is scientific enough but because it focused mostly on America and the “un educated person” takes it as another Hollywood production (fiction). It is for this reason that people don’t take climate change as a serious man extinction event.
[1] BBC News. Sci/Tech [Internet]. Antarctic ice shelf breaks apart [cited 2006 August 3]. Available from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1880566.stm
[2] UNEP. Great Ocean Conveyor Belt [Internet]. Potential Impact of Climate change. [cited 2006 August 3]. Available from: http://www.grida.no/climate/vital/32.htm
PLAGIARISM DECLARATION
1.I know that plagiarism is wrong. Plagiarism is to use another’s work and to pretend that it is one’s own.
2. I have used the CSE/CBE convention for citation and referencing. Each significant contribution to, and quotation in this project from the work, or works, of other people has been attributed, and has been cited and referenced.
3. This assignment is my own work.
4. I have not allowed, and will not allow anyone to copy my work with the intention of passing it off as his or her own work.
posted by Riaan at
8/04/2006 09:21:00 AM
2 Comments:
Hi Riaan
I guess it is difficult to get the attention of the ordinary man on the street... If this was the intention of this movie I do not know. To me it was a typical Hollywood production full of cliches with the standard happy ending. Will it be a wake up call to the majority of people who watch it? I somehow doubt it. Unfortunately the storyline and cliches have made it into just another fiction movie.
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Karen Marais, at August 04, 2006 6:16 PM
I totally agree with you Karen becuase when it was released on the circiut I actually thought it was another fiction movie. Untill i was ask to watch it as part of the course and then only realise its importance.
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Riaan, at August 10, 2006 11:07 AM
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