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In the beginning, there is an attempt to document global warming by removing an ice core from the Antarctic. This is made considerably more difficult when the ice shelf collapses under the scientists involved.
A climate summit is held in India. The vice-president (who may not be named "Dick Cheney", but have no doubt of his identity) announces nothing needs to be done. When the conference ends, ''it is snowing''. (Normally, that region of India has a temperature of about 100 °
The lead scientist involved in the Antarctic expedition, Jack Hall, is considered kooky because he is a paleoclimatologist. He doesn't get along with authorities, and his relationship with his equally genius son could be better.
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The genius son Sam Hall is going to NYC for a knowledge decathlon and to try to bond with the girl he joined the knowledge decathlon team for. He's afraid of flying, and this flight doesn't go smoothly. It is one of the last flights at NYC's latitude that goes at all.
In Scotland, another group of scientists is measuring ocean temperatures in the North Atlantic. They aren't paying incredibly close attention when things first go
After tornadoes hit LA, America takes this weather thing seriously. Only one weather model seems to have any real predictive power. Unfortunately, it was made by the paleoclimatologist to deal with weather patterns at the start of the last [[Ice Age]], and it wasn't supposed to run anywhere near as fast as the current weather system is running.
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* [[Divorce Is Temporary]]: Jack and Lucy are broken up at the beginning due to Jack's work taking him away from the family. But he realizes how much he's missed and after risking his life to save his son from frozen New York, he and Lucy move toward reconciling.
* [[Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud|Do Not Follow The Funnel Cloud In A Helicopter From One Block Away]]
* [[Downer Ending]]: A substantial portion of the world's population has been wiped out, most of the planet's fertile farmland is coated in ice, ''Europe, Russia, Canada, and the United States are uninhabitable wastelands'', and [[Humans Are
* [[Dramatic Landfall Shot]]
* [[Exact Time to Failure]]
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* [[Ignored Expert]]: Jack Hall. After a freak disaster has just removed Los Angeles from the face of the Earth, the one scientist in the government who's even willing to venture a ''guess'' as to what's going on still has to beg for computer time in order to confirm his theory. You would ''think'' that after the vaporization of LA, the government would also be interested in confirming the only available theory as to how and why ... [[Strawman Political|but they're just so unreasonable, somehow]], and [[Conflict Ball|refuse out of nowhere]].
* [[Inferred Holocaust]]
* [[It Got Worse]]: It's not enough that the ''world is plummeting into an ice age'' and they're trapped in a library of death as the entire city perishes in the
* [[The Jimmy Hart Version]]: The theme when Jake Gyllenhall and his buddies go inside the Russian ship to look for medicines sounds exactly like the main theme from "Panic Room"
* [[Karma Houdini]]: The Dick Cheney [[Expy]] Vice President tries to shut down any attempt to handle the crisis intelligently long past the point where he should have learned to shut up. See a [[Karmic Death]] coming? Nope. Instead, he gets a [[Field Promotion]] when the more reasonable president [[Too Dumb to Live|eschews his fleet of helicopters, drives south in a motorcade onto already packed roads instead]], and dies in the storm.
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''But it's a swell day,
''More fun than the [[Academy Award]]s...''}}
* [[Running Gag
** Various comments on how STUPID the characters are.
** Mocking how pandering this is to the liberal mindset.
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