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The disaster film epic, The Day After Tomorrow™, depicts a world where global warming triggers an abrupt climate change, creating a global superstorm that unleashes unimaginable worldwide weather disasters. In the span of just a few days, tornados devastate Los Angeles, huge hail pounds Tokyo, and colossal tsunamis and blizzards whip New York.

Tornado- A mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system. Hail- Pellets of frozen rain that fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds. Tsunami- A long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance. Blizzards- A severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility.

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In the film The Day After Tomorrow, the movie dealt with global warming and how it might affect our climate. In the start of the movie some of the actors are found drilling for ice core samples in Antarctica. The core samples are used for research in the distant pass's climate. Well they are drilling a piece of the ice shelf breaks off. It was the size of Texas. The movie then shifts to a Global Warming conference in India. The scientist explains that Global Warming can move the climate in to a cooling trend. Our readings for last week were about melting ice caps everywhere in the world that could be from global warming. The papers also talked about the effects that this could have on our planet. This is in the movie and also in our readings so it may be the only science in the whole movie. All of these events could not take place in a week like the movie would like you to believe. The papers talk about research that is starting to show just how bad global warming COULD be for earth. In the movie they also have what they call supper cells. These supper cells are very big and can cover a whole country at once. These cell form like

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