The Day After Tommorow

[The Captain]

I've heard many things about this film, mostly bad to be honest. Chief among them is the fact that it seems you can walk from Maryland to New York in a matter of a few days in weather that kills people who step outside, yet if you're a "hero", you can endure it just fine. Pure Hollywood popcorn fun.

As for the actual topic. I'm getting very concerned with the environmental issues our world faces and am increasingly more peeved that so many world leaders seem to disregard these troubles. It seems that old saying, "It's not OUR generations problem.." still is a paramount ideal. I believe we can do many things to improve the problems, but it will take a lot of work and actual time and resources, i.e. money, from people in power to really accomplish anything. Hopefully, with the development of the hybrid car and soon electric car, the toxins caused by the current cars will finally be controlled. Here's hoping.

We all have to live here on this planet for the near future, so I do honestly believe it's our responsibility to make this place a cleaner, safer place to live.

Take care all.

[Mei]

As a matter of fact, global sea levels rising a mere 5- 10 meters would drown New york city, parts of London, Lisbon and other major cities. Them rising 50 metres (which COULD happen) wouls result in half the world's land surface being drowned.
Of course, the Gulf Stream could also shut off any time now- in fact, as I was reading in Focus, May issuse (I think), Britain and in fact the rest of Northern Europe by 2030. Or, it could take milleniums.
The fact is, we ARE still officially in an ice age, because of the glaciers in antartica and Greenland. Common practice on Earth is for there to not be ice at both or even one ice cap.
Although it would not take as early as it does in the film, which I actually really liked, it could happen. Also, if global warming were to happen, it wouldn't just make everywhere hotter. Some places would freeze, others would drown, yet others would experience monsoon seasons above the equatorial region and the tropics.

[DMKA]

I saw the movie the day after it came out (no pun intended), and I have to say it had some eye candy, and gave you the "woah damn what it that were to really happen!?" effect, at parts like the giant tornadoes tearing my beloved city of Los Angeles apart, and the ocean flooding New York City. Besides that though, yeah, the movie sucked, even though Bilbo Baggings was in it.

Anyway, enough about the movie itself. Personally, I don't believe in the global warming theories. I don't believe in that "hole in the ozone" thing, and I don't believe that the icecaps are gonna melt and drown everyone. I mean, if they icecaps even were to melt, I think it'd take a good hundreds of years before we noticed any significant change. And besides, its not going to be like that movie (water rising in a matter of seconds). As the water rises, people will move inland. As the world changes, humanity will adapt to it. Its not a huge deal, really. I mean, we survived a fricken iceage, so I'm sure we can survive a little bit of moving our asses inland a few miles.

And, lets just assume that some big disaster would happen that kills off a good percentage of humanity. Is that a bad thing? Humans are the ones doing it after all (if you believe in the whole global warm, ozone hole load of info). And even if yopu don't theres no arguing that humans tearup and rape the planet based on greed (FF7 anyone?).

[Big D]

[q=dmka]I don't believe in that "hole in the ozone" thing[/q]The ozone hole isn't related to global warming, but it's a very real threat. It's observable, with the right equipment, and has serious effects. My country has a far higher rate of skin cancer than it should have, because of excess UV radiation levels. In summer, spending 10 minutes outdoors without sunscreen can be enough to get burned.
Ozone depletion is a genuine threat, believe me.[q]As the water rises, people will move inland.[/q]Yep, but lots of places won't have an 'inland'. We're talking entire island nations that'll simply cease to be. It's already begun, and it'll keep on going, too...

[Kegsay]

Oh yeah and about the Ice Caps melting, as far as I can remember, a few years back, the "rossa ice shelf" or some kind of ice shelf broke off and plunged into the ocean. It was a pretty big chunk aswell.

[DMKA]

Yep, but lots of places won't have an 'inland'. We're talking entire island nations that'll simply cease to be. It's already begun, and it'll keep on going, too...

True, true, but then they'll just have to move to a different piece of land...if they'd rather die though, thats their business.

And geez you people are making it sound like it will happen in a matter of hours...people will have time to move...sheesh.

[Erased]

What if? What if? What if? What if? What if? What if?
1. what if i say... go kill everyone before the had the chance to kill me on "final fantasy: not in development" at level 1 with a plastic short sword?
2. what if say... the second/first(depending on religion) coming actually happened?
3. what if... i think that[the day after tommorow] movie's stupid?
what about the part where 1(I could never do that! I would never do that! The programmers would never do that!) won't happen, 2 wont happen(see my religion reply if your interested), and i actually believe statement #3?
what if the day after tomorrow sucks?
"Ya know, I don't believe in the future. I wake up every day and its the same boring present." Kale, Titan A.E.

[chu52]

Oh yeah and about the Ice Caps melting, as far as I can remember, a few years back, the "rossa ice shelf" or some kind of ice shelf broke off and plunged into the ocean. It was a pretty big chunk aswell.

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