The Day After Tomorrow

The Day After Tomorrow might not be the best movie physics wise, or just the best movie in general, but it does bring up a very important topic that has become more significant in recent years, which is global warming. Some people believe global warming to be a hoax, but with the insurmountable amount of evidence that viewpoint just seems ignorant to the facts.



A greenhouse gas is a gas that traps in solar energy and carbon dioxide is one of the most abundant types of greenhouse gasses. Scientists have tested samples of the atmosphere over the course of hundreds of thousands of years using samples of ice that trapped bubbles of air over all those years (the things that the guys at the start of the movie were drilling for), and that data was recorded, which is displayed on the chart above. There is a reoccurring pattern of a rise and fall of carbon dioxide levels over the years, but they never exceeded 300 parts per million, but because of events like the industrial revolution and the increase of carbon emissions the level has reached over 400. This data matches up with this time series of global temperature difference in how the carbon dioxide levels correlate to temperature difference. All of this data was shown on NASA's website. NASA is an incredibly credible source that is funded by the government and uses unbiased scientific evidence through the scientific method.

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