A Climatologist Reviews The Day After Tomorrow

[nancylebov]

In rec.arts.sf.written, William Hyde, a climatologist, said he'd only see the movie for $100, and Dreamer, a Happy Nonsense Discordian, arranged for an auction to make it happen.

Here's the run-up to the event:

Here's the review.

"In short, This movie is to climate science as Frankenstein is to heart transplant surgery."



On the off-chance that anyone reading this doesn't know about rec.arts.sf.written, it's a newsgroup for the discussion of written sf--it includes both science fiction and fantasy since no one has ever been able to adequately define the difference. The discussion tends to drift but is dragged back to sf often enough.

Newsgroups are open public discussion areas--you can get to them at Groups at Google. They've been around much longer than lj, and there are sophisticated tools for killfiling people or subjects you don't want to read and/or having what you do want to read brought to your attention. There's a German site that's supposed to be better than google for reading newsgroups, but I can't remember the name at the moment. If anyone's interested, I'll try to dredge it out of memory.

I use trn in pine (a primitive telnet sort of approach).

Comments

[esmereldachubb.livejournal.com]

That's brilliant! I laughed out loud.

ROFL!

[sgsguru.livejournal.com]

One of the best things about really bad movies is it lets the reviewers let their hair down and stop trying to find nice things to say. The New Yorker had a non- climatological carve- up of TDAT that is, if anything, even nastier than this one.

BTW, the German news server is here. It is a "real" news server, so you can read news without having to squeeze it through a Web browser like Google Groups.

[nellorat.livejournal.com]

This is great! Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I especially liked the explanation of how air is actually warmed and why the explanation of the supercold air in the film is such nonsense. Most of all, great style.