What is the heating capacity of CO2? This is what is making climate science evidence to Global Warming science fiction anyway. When they can actually prove that CO2 in the atmosphere causes "a runaway effect", then it would not be a science fiction movie. According to a nuclear physicist CO2 does have limits in its warming capabilities. Read here : http://tallbloke.files.wordpress.com/201...
What is the climax? Who are the heros? Where is the girl/boy story line plot? Otherwise interesting and I like the ending.
What I have been saying all along, man made climate change is science fiction.
Realistic?
To an alarmist I guess it would be. Most of them have lost their grip on reality so realistic would be a relative term to them anyway.
Interesting as a science fiction possibility, but not necessarily very original: http://en.was-this-atlantis.info/rechauf...
I had an idea for a movie (made for TV probably). Plot: Human beings had attained to a high level of civilization and technology between 20,000 BC and 10,000 BC in a land called Atlantis, and their technology like ours demanded a high level of energy consumption. And they too figured out that oil and coal and natural gas could provide easily accessible and abundant energy, and secured large sources of these fossil fuels.
But unfortunately, they never realized the connection between carbon dioxide and the greenhouse effect. In fact, they just burned the fossil fuels and didn't realize that this burning even released carbon dioxide - after all, it's an invisible, odorless, colorless gas that mixes with the atmosphere as soon as it is released.
And worse yet, the people of that time never knew that there existed massive ice sheets in the North American and Antarctic and European continent that could melt and raise the earth's global sea level. Through the years, as more fossil fuels were burned, villagers living on the coastline of Atlantis would, as one generation passed to another, would find their homes swamped and waterlogged. Of course, they didn't know that it was because the ice sheets were melting, (since they didn't know the ice sheets even existed, as they had not sailed to these parts). This is somewhat realistic given that not even we knew Antarctica, and hence its vast ice sheet existed until 1820, when a Russian explorer had discovered it.
The people notice that the Earth is getting warmer and that there are successive heat waves that devastate crops and lead to mass famine. The village elders cry out that ever since those cursed oils and rocks mined or drilled from the earth were burned, that all of these problems came but those who profited from supplying these fuels initiated a propaganda offensive against this observation and insisted on maintaining the status quo.
There came a critical breaking point where the North American ice sheet, though they couldn't know it, began to collapse and catastrophically lose its stability on a continental scale, and thus the meltwater that had up to then entered the oceans as a trickle suddenly was released in a vast scale as the ice sheet entered a positive melting feedback loop. The waters of the world suddenly, in one year, advanced a hundred miles inland due to the flat topography near the shoreline of their homeland, and the waters never receded.
As the N. American ice sheet melted, the Atlantean civilization was drowned beneath the sea and the survivors left to establish colonies in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, and Peru. They brought the seeds of agriculture with them and memories of the flood that had destroyed their homeland. We today look back and say that the ice age ended because of a natural cycle, but it was in reality ended by a lost civilization's emission of carbon dioxide.
They didn't know that CO2 existed, or that it would warm the earth, or even that an ice sheet would exist whose melting would raise the sea levels. We do. They made that mistake before. Will we make it again?
The ending: history repeats itself, the flood happens
