Will The Day After Tomorrow ever happen?

Question

Will the world ever heal itself like that? Or will the effects of humankind's disregard just tear it to pieces..?

Answer 1

somewhere in the middle of the two.

Answer 2

The world will be fine no matter what. It will continue like it always has since the beginning of time. It may not stay the way we are used to it, and it may even get to where it doesn't support the life that now lives on it, but it will adapt and survive. It's humans that need to worry.

They can't adapt like that.

Answer 3

I don't think it would happen as dramatically as that is, nor as quickly. After all, its like fitting the effects of global warming in a 2 hour or so film! But there is going to be some problem in the future if we dont sort it out now!

Answer 4

This is what happens when Hollywood is given credibility.  They make this c**p and people actually believe it.  I'm sure all the environmental wack-jobs would love for everyone to believe this will happen if we don't stop driving are cars, or using incandescent light bulbs, but I'm afraid they are wrong.  Ice ages have occured and will occur again during the span of the earths history.  But to say it happens like that is preposterous.

Answer 5

The last Ice Age ended around 10,000 years ago due to an increase in "greenhouse gasses" - not just CO2, but also water vapour which is actually a stronger greenhouse gas than CO2 - so the earth will warm further before it once again cools due to atmospheric conditions.

Ice Ages have been found to cycle in 40,000 and 100,000 years so we probably wouldn't be due a natural one for another 20,000 or so years. That said, it's now unclear just what kind of effect - if any - we have had on that cycle. We may have accelerated that process so that it may happen within the next 1,000 years or so, or it's possible that it will be delayed for longer.

Other causes are changes in the Earth's orbit around the sun, and possibly even our orbit within the galaxy. Also the motion of the tectonic plates, variations in solar output, the orbital dynamics of the Earth-Moon system and the impact of meteors can affect when the next age will occur.

It is possible that an increase in greenhouse gasses can affect the environment enough to cause an Ice Age, but it will more than likely need another of the above catalysts to produce something to a level which has occured naturally before.

As for happening in just a few days, thats almost an impossibility. The following is from Wikipedia;

There is little meteorological or climatological science in the actual events of the movie. Critics of the science shown in the film have asserted that global warming is unlikely to bring about a sudden onslaught of natural disasters, but is rather an observed trend in which the average climatic temperatures are shifting. In the film, the disasters are entertainingly sudden and cataclysmic. Criticisms of the science portrayed in the movie include:

* The initial idea that an increase in freshwater could cause a shutdown of thermoelastic circulation slowdown or stop of the thermohaline circulation has some probability.

* The plot-feasibility condition that descending stratospheric air would be cold, because it was apparently descending too fast to warm up, is incorrect. The potential temperature of stratospheric air is higher, not lower than the temperature of the surface air. Rapidly descending, rarefied air would also have relatively little thermal mass, and would be compressed to sea level pressure as it descended, heating it greatly and having little effect on sea level temperature.

* The freezing temperature for the kerosene fuel used in most commercial and military jet engines, such as the RAF helicopters, is between -40 to -52.6 °F ( -40 to -47 °C) and not at the -151°F Prof. Rapson informs Jack is the freezing temperature ("We had to look it up!" Rapson tells Jack). Yet jet engines are routinely flown at 30,000 ft (9144m), the upper part of the troposphere whence the supercold air is supposed to be descending across the northern hemisphere.

* In the scene where helicopters froze solid in mid air, the temperature required for this to happen would be far too low for snow to occur. Below about −40°C the moisture capacity of air is so low that snow is very unlikely. The temperature in this scene would need to be much colder than −40°C.

In order for the sea ice to reach the level it does on the Statue of Liberty (approximately 215 ft or 65.6m), 75% of Antarctica's ice would have to melt, which would take more than 2.5 years - only if all the solar radiation received by the Earth were concentrated on the southern-most continent.

So not too likely then.

Answer 6

You mean Saturday? Sure, comes round once a week

Answer 7

Global warming causes global cooling.   If you believe in it all...