One more thing to blame for global warming

Rating: 4/10 (25 May 2006)

I actually enjoyed some of Roland Emmerich's past movies, Godzilla and ID4 for the spectacle and FX, but this one, based on bad science is the most un-SciFi of all his movies. Much of global warming is based on bad science, so here we have the ideas played out to the level of the ridiculous.
I particularly gagged on the plot point of Dennis Quade's character predicting the resulting devastation based on his computer models. The same ones environmentalist used to prove global warming only to have reality prove them wrong. And tweak their models, only to have them proved wrong, and - well, you get the idea.
I've been conditioned to expect a few you've-got-to-be-kidding moments in Roland's movies, just not this many. Most of these disconnects from logic have already been described, with all the climatic rescue scenes forming an unbelievable whole (or maybe that should be "hole").
Is any of this plausible? Apart from the human drama, which can almost be seen in isolation from the catastrophe, meteors striking the Earth pose much more of a threat, and we know how that played out in the movies. Those hoping for Armageddon, might want to go back to the bible.
For the rest of us, please give us a well-written SciFi movie that doesn't violate logic at every turn, or cover it up with CGI.