As i recall, the single largest by great far producer of greenhouse gasses and other pollution, is in fact.. trees. That's right boys and girls. Save the environment, kill all the polluting trees!

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Eh? That doesn't make any sense. Trees photosynthesize CO2 into O2. Respiration produces CO2, which plants need to grow (this is why talking to your plants may actually help them grow better).

But the presence of 'greenhouse gasses' are not a problem in itself, but it's the excess amount of them over the last 200 years that is causing instabilities. Yes, stopping the natural emissions of said gasses is a possible solution, so that humans can keep burning fossil fuels, but humans are doing so at an accelerated rate so you'd have to keep stopping more and more natural emissions. Eventually, there'd be no natural emissions and humans would have to keep emitting the same amount all the time to keep the equilibrium.
(But of course, stopping the emissions from volcanoes and thatwhat would have huge environmental effects otherwise, probably)

an idea, where the is too much ozone, use CFCs. where there is too little ozone, pollute the atmosphere with ozone.

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Where IS there too much ozone?

The transition from "normal" climate to ice age only lasted a few weeks. As I understood it, after the storms subsided, the global temperature stabilized again, but at a much lower level, resulting in another ice age that would indeed last several hundred years.



Apparently the current that was affected by the changing water composition only has a significant effect on the northern hemisphere's weather. One way or another, it allowed for a number of scenes that were at the same time absurd and insightful.

In the end, a highly entertaining movie. The visual effects and cinematography were perhaps the best I've ever seen, and rarely overdone. The science in The Day After Tomorrow isn't "bad science," it's just "movie science." It's enough to make the premise seem plausible, but the makers of the movie certainly aren't suggesting that any of this could actually happen.

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I'm assuming you're referring to the politics in the film.
Well, I was thinking about this. Considering this actually DID happen, and America had to evacuate the southern states (unless there's some alternative to that, like everything hiding in a hole or something), I think hundreds of thousands of Americans would have to flee into Mexico, as in the film. And I can't imagine that Mexico would be too pleased about that, also in the film.

I think the fact that only the northern hemisphere was affected had to do with only one of the coveyor belts in the atlantic had been disrupted.

There's a constant stream of warm water coming down from the south and hitting the shores of england and france. The the water moves north where higher concentrations of minerals cause the warm stream to sink to the bottom of the ocean and change course, creating a constant cycle that regulates a great deal of the weather in the northern hemisphere. When the polar caps melt and their waters mix with the surrounding oceans, the concentration of minerals drops significantly, which in turn also disrupts the trajectory of the stream.

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The two things they should have left out of the fildm were the wolves and the stupid "eye of the storm" where everything freezes instantly. The movie would have been 200% more believable without those two things.

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