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EES 0836 The Day After Tomorrow (2004) Video Response Questions Disasters: Geology vs. Hollywood Introduction As Paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is in Antarctica, he discovers that a huge ice sheet has sheared off. But what he does not know is that this event will trigger a massive climate shift that will affect the world population. Meanwhile, his son Sam is with friends in New York City to attend an event. There, they discover that it has been raining non-stop for the past three days, and after a series of weather-related disasters begin to occur all over the world, everybody realizes the world is about to enter a new Ice Age and the world population begins trying to evacuate to the warmer climates of the south. Jack makes a daring attempt to rescue his son and his friends who are stuck in New York City and who have managed to survive not only a massive wave but also freezing cold temperatures that could possibly kill them. -imdb.com Learning Objective ● Critically assess the portrayal of science and climate change in the movie The Day After Tomorrow (2004). (4, 5, b) Questions During and after watching the video clips, answer the following questions. Add your answers below and submit on Canvas. 1. In the opening sequence of the film (Clip 1), Jack, the climatologist, risks his life to retrieve the ice cores his research team is collecting in Antarctica. What’s so important about ice cores to climate studies that he would take such a chance? The ice cores that they are retrieving have data such as temperatures and the make up of the ice that can help measure climate change. The older ice shows us how the landscape is changing compared to today. 2. What causes the disaster at the Antarctic research outpost? The fault opened in the middle of their site. 3. Have similar events in Antarctica happened in real life? (You’ll have to do a little additional internet research on this one.) The only thing that is like the film is that there is a fault line going through Antarctica. They mostly experience earthquakes. 4. Jack tells the delegates at the conference that global warming can affect ocean circulation such that it paradoxically causes global cooling. Is there any real scientific basis for this statement, and if so, what? Yes, global warming has directly changed water density and the way that ice melts, this is a positive feedback loop. 5. The weather station in the UK (shown in Clip 3) records sudden drops in ocean surface temperatures in multiple places in the North Atlantic. Based on what you have seen thus far (in
EES 0836 class and in the previous clips), what do you think you are supposed to conclude is causing that temperature drop? The melting ice would cause the waters in the north to drop as well. 6. What disaster did it actually resemble? Tsunami 7. What else was completely unrealistic about the water crashing through the Manhattan streets? (Hint: Watch the motor vehicles.) When the wave comes around the corner, none of the cars are moved. The wave would displace everything. 8. Temperatures plummet, snow begins to fall, the floodwaters freeze, and Jack’s son Sam warns that anyone who goes outside will freeze to death in the approaching storms that bring on the new Ice Age (spoiler alert: they do). This all happens in the course of a few days. Do you think this climate change shift is realistic on this timeline? Why or why not? In this movie, everything happens instantly; they experience the devastating effects of global warming overnight. Realistically, the effects of global warming would happen over a long period of time. 9. Duke University paleoclimatologist Dr. William Hyde described the film as follows: “this movie is to climate science as Frankenstein is to heart transplant surgery.” What do you think? I think Dr. Hyde is correct because all of the events happened back to back. The effects of global warming is over dramatized.
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