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(Message started by: HypnoticFreddy on May 14^th, 2004, 12:01pm)

Title: The Day After Tomorrow
Post by HypnoticFreddy on May 14^th, 2004, 12:01pm

Taken and edited from www.Moveon.org

On Memorial Day weekend, Hollywood is releasing a summer blockbuster movie that's making the Bush administration very nervous. In fact, they'd rather you didn't see it at all.

Why? Because it's a disaster movie about global warming.

While "The Day After Tomorrow" is more science fiction than science fact, everyone will be talking about it -- and asking "Could it really happen?"

Maybe you've already seen the trailer for "The Day After Tomorrow": tornadoes whip through Los Angeles and Manhattan is frozen over as global warming triggers an Ice Age across North America.

Nearly 20 million Americans are expected to see this movie, with as many as 7 or 8 million over Memorial Day weekend alone. Because the movie capitalizes on our real-life concerns over climate change, audiences are likely to walk out of the theater asking themselves: "Could it really happen?"

The right wing (oh no....there is that term again) has already cranked up its PR machine to discredit the movie as "fright flick" propaganda cooked up by climate change conspiracy theorists. Never mind that they're relying on stone-age science, or that they're light-years behind the curve on the public's acceptance of global warming as a real environmental threat.

It might be nice to take our minds off of war, terrorism, and torture and look at a domestic issue like global warming, which amongts many should be a priority for the White House. It looks like a cool flick!

-Scott

Title: Re: The Day After Tomorrow
Post by thomas on May 14^th, 2004, 12:15pm

I plan on watching it. I heard the FX are awesome. I read about it in Outside Magazine (tree-huggers version of sports illustrated). ;;D

Title: Re: The Day After Tomorrow
Post by stuey on May 14^th, 2004, 12:46pm

Guess I better learn how to swim once those glaciers and stuff start to melt. Greenhouse gasses? is what's causing it and emissions from cars isn't it? Scary this stuff.

Title: Re: The Day After Tomorrow
Post by Luke63 on May 14^th, 2004, 1:06pm

thomas.....Wow...you are the only other person besides my friend who owns a roll=off service.....use the term tree-hugger.....thought it was just him and I...what a rush!!!

Title: Re: The Day After Tomorrow
Post by miCHel on May 14^th, 2004, 1:56pm

Down here in the Great White North, we often pray for global warming ;)

Just kidding, this is serious and scary stuff...

miCHel

Title: Re: The Day After Tomorrow
Post by Luke63 on May 14^th, 2004, 2:12pm

Wow...I just found the trailer.....definitely want to see it now!