The movie itself gave a hint about the global warming and drew the peoples’ attention towards the atmosphere for some days.
Now in Antarctica, the same situation arises as like that in the movie. But not able to say what are the adverse affects that are going to happen in future.
Wilkins Sound is a seaway in Antarctica that is largely occupied by the Wilkins Ice Shelf. It is located between the concave western coastline of Alexander Island and the shores of Charcot Island and Latady Island farther to the west.
The Wilkins Ice Shelf is a rectangular ice shelf about 80 miles long and 60 miles wide (130 by 110 km). This feature occupies the central part of Wilkins Sound, from which it takes its name. The name was proposed by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1971.
In 1993 Professor David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) predicted that the northern part of the Wilkins ice shelf was likely to be lost within 30 years if climate warming on the Peninsula were to continue at the same rate.
On March 25, 2008 a 405-square-kilometer (156 sq mts.) chunk of the Wilkins ice shelf disintegrated, putting an even larger portion of the glacial ice shelf at risk. Scientists were surprised when they discovered the rest of the 14,000-square-kilometer (5,400 sq mts.) ice shelf is beginning to break away from the continent. What is left of the Wilkins ice shelf is now connected by only a narrow beam of ice.
No need to introduce one more time about the American Block Buster movie The Day After Tomorrow to the movie lovers.
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