The Oscar winning Titanic was boring compared to this remarkable motion picture by Roland Emmerich. America as we know it coming to an end is simply a bigger issue than two lovers going bathing because their vessel hit an iceberg. The notion that New York City could turn tomorrow into Iceland is scientifically wrong; but evidence that global warming is taking place with possible huge consequences for the world’s climate is piling up fast. The film does a great job to raise public awareness that by end of this century large areas of the world may become uninhabitable. Poor countries, which lack skills and resources, will suffer the most. Emmerich sends New York into an Ice Age. He is such a master of special effects that my eyes were glued to the screen, marveling about the realistic pictures that he was able get out of his computer.

There is a love story to appeal to peoples’ romantic side, but Emmerich, unlike the director of the Titanic, is resourceful enough not to let a private love story get into the way of telling a much bigger public story: will many of our children and grandchildren become emigrants against their will because the changing climate is forcing them away?