Does The Day After Tomorrow, depict real events? 🌊🗽

In the 2004 Hollywood blockbuster, The Day After Tomorrow, Dennis Quaid plays a paleoclimatologist who predicts the collapse of an ocean circulation system with devastating consequences. Was the movie a classic case of bad science in Hollywood or strangely prescient?

Turns out the world’s oceans are warming at an alarming rate, with disastrous consequences for marine life and humanity. The ocean system depicted in The Day After Tomorrow, known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation or AMOC, could be one culprit.

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[BryanCleaver]

An "Absolutely Fabulous" presentation, Bryan

[annborges]

Yesterday, for the first time I heard about AMOC and looked it up. My husband suggested we watch " The day after tomorrow ". I'm still.confused about what if anything human pollution has to do with AMOC.

[syntom]

We don’t comprehend how fragile we are…

[revinevan]

You need to speak louder. I can hear your mouth movements and sharp consonants way louder than your voice.