History Main / GlobalWarming

** ''South Park'' initially dismissed the idea of global warming because back then the creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone didn't believe it to be real. However, they did acknowledge that their cartoon can't be considered entirely accurate. Though, they do change their opinions with Recap/SouthParkS22E6TimeToGetCereal and Recap/SouthParkS22E7NobodyGotCereal dealing with the existence of Man Bear Pig (an allegory of Global Warming) and the latter episode dealing with people's unwillingness to gave up things (two of them being soy and cars) that contributed to its existence.
* In the finale episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'', Woody Johnson fired up a factory to burn up fossil fuels at a record breaking speed which created so much global warming that once he heated up the planet too much, alien cows arrived deciding now's the perfect time to take over the earth and so [[spoiler:they use laser guns to kill the main cast minus Steve, whom they enslave, and wipe out humanity taking their place as the dominant species of the planet]].

* The end of the ''Rite of Spring'' segment of ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'' had all of the dinosaurs going extinct because of a massive drought caused by a sudden warming of the Earth's climate. Shortly after the last dino goes extinct, the entire Earth is flooded, submerging whatever continent is still on that planet.

* The opening of ''Film/WorldWarZ'' includes a montage of television figures talking about mysterious diseases and the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere; this is never brought up again. There is reason to expect that changes in climate could cause new diseases (as, e.g., animals are forced out of their habitats and new strains of flu emerge). There is currently little reason to believe that it would unleash a zombie plague.

** Overall, ''South Park'' dismisses the idea of global warming because the creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone don't believe it to be real. However, they acknowledge that their cartoon can't be considered entirely accurate. Though, they do change their opinions with Recap/SouthParkS22E6TimeToGetCereal and Recap/SouthParkS22E7NobodyGotCereal dealing with the existence of Man Bear Pig (an allegory of Global Warming) and the latter episode dealing with people's unwillingness to gave up things (two of them being soy and cars) that contributed to its existence. This; however, did not mean that Al Gore--the show's major target--off the hook as he ran away instead of dealing with the issue.

Climatologists nowadays more often use the term "climate change" rather than "global warming" as a broader term applied to ''all'' complex changes in the globe's climate, past, present, and future rather than a simple increase in "average worldwide" temperature--when one area gets warmer and drier, other may get colder and wetter as the oceanic and atmospheric conveyor belts that move heat around the planet shift location. Another term has also started coming up, "global weirding" which covers more or less the same place as "climate change."

->'''Dale''': I say let the world warm up, let's see what Boutros Boutros Ghali Ghali has to say about that. We'll grow oranges in Alaska!\\
'''Hank''': Dale, you giblet-head, we live in Texas! It's already 110 in the summer, and if it gets one degree hotter, I'm going to kick your ass!

* In the original manga of ''Manga/{{X 1999}}'', [[spoiler: Kamui's mother burns to death because she was the 'shadow sacrifice' for the earth and took all of the earth's misfortune (aka, global warming) onto herself. Okay, maybe death by fire was a little more dramatic than the real thing, [[RuleOfCool but...]]]]
** [[spoiler: I dunno, all that heat increase for the volume of the biosphere, condensed into the 1.2 - 1.4 cubic feet average volume of an adult human female would be pretty durn extreme]]

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* In ''[[Literature/HisDarkMaterials The Amber Spyglass]]'', the portal between the worlds created an increase of temperatures that made things harder for the native sentient polar bears. [[spoiler: They are later driven to the Himalayas, and things aren't any better there]]

* This is a major background element and plot point of Paolo Bacigalupi's biopunk novel ''Literature/TheWindupGirl''. The novel takes place in 23rd century UsefulNotes/{{Bangkok}}, which is actually below sea-level after Global Warming has taken it's toll and only survives thanks to enormous sea-walls and powerful pumps that work throughout the monsoon season. This becomes a plot point when the foreign merchant Carlyle has the only replacement parts for about half the pumps available in his warehouse outside UsefulNotes/{{Thailand}}, which he uses as political leverage. [[spoiler: In the end, it doesn't last and Kanya lets the city drown to save the people of Thailand from foreign influences such as Carlyle.]]

* In the ''Literature/RedMarsTrilogy'' of Creator/KimStanleyRobinson, this is a background plot element (since most of the action takes place on Mars, naturally), although it becomes more prominent in the third volume when [[spoiler: the entire Antarctic ice cap melts, flooding large portions of the Earth]].

* Subverted in ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E75TheMidnightSun The Midnight Sun]]" where the Earth was heating up due to having shifted closer to the sun. (And apparently had stopped rotating, as there was no more night in the city where the characters lived.) A subversion, because the KarmicTwistEnding is [[spoiler: that it's AllJustADream by a young woman whose Earth is ''freezing'' rather than roasting]].

* In the [=PS1=] game ''Submarine Commander'', the Earth experienced global warming so fast that the crew of the titular submarine doesn't realize it, and when they surface, it's all sea. The ending is even more absurd: [[spoiler: the inverse, global ''cooling'', happens just as fast, via '''satellite'''. It's so fast that after the final battle, your submarine that took catastrophic damage and was sinking, is rescued by water levels receding so fast that the submarine is stranded on top of high-rise buildings.]]

** Curiously, if you reverse the process fast enough after they capitulate, you can preserve the T3 rating of the planet with all the plants and animal.

---> '''Swampy:''' ''(from under the snow)'' [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1170.html "Al Gore is full of @#$!"]]

--> But...
--> '''ONCE AND FOR ALL!'''

* In the finale episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'', Woody Johnson fired up a factory to burn up fossil fuels at a record breaking speed which created so much global warming that once he heated up the planet too much, alien cows arrived deciding now's the perfect time to take over the earth and so [[spoiler: they use laser guns to kill the main cast minus Steve, whom they enslave, and wipe out humanity taking their place as the dominant species of the planet]].

** Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of the series, was inspired by global warming to produce the short "The Endless Summer" to educate children about the dangers and causes of global warming. Mr. Krabs tried heating up Bikini Bottom using just one car to cause carbon emissions so that summer never ends and he can make money off hot customers coming to his pool for a swim. [=SpongeBob=], being so excited about an endless summer, throws in a lot more cars and inadvertently sets his town on fire. Everyone in Bikini Bottom run towards the Krusty Pool, and [[spoiler: they ran past it, with Patrick claiming he and everyone else are leaving cause it's too hot here. At the end, [=SpongeBob=] tries to take a dive into the boiling hot pool, but it evaporates before he lands.]]

* Subverted on ''Series/TheTwilightZone'', in an episode where the Earth was heating up due to having shifted closer to the sun. (And apparently had stopped rotating, as there was no more night in the city where the characters lived.) A subversion, because the KarmicTwistEnding is [[spoiler: that it's AllJustADream by a young woman whose Earth is ''freezing'' rather than roasting]].

** Overall, ''South Park'' dismisses the idea of global warming because the creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone don't believe it to be real. However, they acknowledge that their cartoon can't be considered entirely accurate.

* A WonderfulLife episode of ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanet'' in which Wheeler didn't join the Planeteers (and some of the villains went into the past to increase pollution levels) showed Manhattan half-submerged by the Atlantic Ocean in the the alternate future.

'''Note:''' This page is only for examples concerning the portrayal of global warming in fiction. With all due respect and sensitivity, RealLife examples [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease ''need to be avoided'']]. Global warming as a rather controversial and politicized issue [[AcceptablePoliticalTargets has become]] pure FlameBait (especially in UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates). [[noreallife]]

'''Note:''' This page is only for examples concerning the portrayal of global warming in fiction. With all due respect and sensitivity, RealLife examples ''need to be avoided''. Global warming as a rather controversial and politicized issue [[AcceptablePoliticalTargets has become]] pure FlameBait (especially in UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates). [[noreallife]]

* Bill Williamson in ''Film/{{Rampage|2009}}'' is a believer of global warming, since he is an atheist and very pro-science. He has blamed global warming and pollution for the poor economy since global warming leads to ruination or depletion of natural resources and he believes skeptics and deniers of this phenomenon should be executed by gunfire. Bill believes that in the next century, the earth is doomed to become uninhabitable.

* Bill Williamson in ''Film/{{Rampage|2009}}'' is a believer of global warming, since he is an atheist and very pro-science. He has blamed global warming and pollution for the poor economy since global warming leads to ruination or depletion of natural resources and he believes skeptics and deniers of this phenomenon should be executed by gunfire.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': It's a snow job/by Obama/and his crew

A debate among the media and the general public rages on over the veracity of climate change, especially anthropogenic global warming. This is no longer the case in the accredited peer-reviewed scientific community, where the debate has moved on to what are the specifics of warming, and possible solutions. We won't get into the more specific scientific nitty-gritty of what those cited facts and arguments ''are'' here. We're about media rather than fact, and mostly it's fantastic FlameBait.

The debate, in any event, rages on in full view of the media; whether Earth is currently growing hotter or colder, very few doubt that this intense FlameWar between various factions of the political community continues to produce massive amounts of heat and very little illumination, save the possibility of the future invention of an argument-powered lightbulb.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' advocates the consensus that global warming is real and caused by humans.

* [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy It's a snow job/by Obama/and his crew]]

* ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'' revolves around a sudden catastrophic global Ice Age precipitated by global warming. This concept is [[TheThemeParkVersion very loosely based]] on a theory that global warming will disrupt certain mid-Atlantic ocean currents, resulting in a 20-30 degree Fahrenheit temperature drop across much of Europe and North America.
** Note that the theory doesn't predict that it'll happen in only 2 days, nor that it will form super-cooled columns capable of freezing the fuel(!) in a running(!!) helicopter engine.
*** From my textbook on this subject: "The concern...is that we will add enough greenhouse gas that the climate system would undergo a large and rapid shift to an entirely new climate state - equivalent to [a] canoe rapidly transitioning from right side up to upside down." However, it also says that this is very unlikely.

'''Note:''' This page is only for examples concerning the portrayal of global warming in fiction. With all due respect and sensitivity, RealLife examples ''need to be avoided''. Global warming as a rather controversial and politicized issue [[AcceptablePoliticalTargets has become]] pure FlameBait (especially in TheUnitedStates). [[noreallife]]

* Bill Williamson in ''Film/{{Rampage}}'' is a believer of global warming, since he is an atheist and very pro-science. He has blamed global warming and pollution for the poor economy since global warming leads to ruination or depletion of natural resources and he believes skeptics and deniers of this phenomenon should be executed by gunfire.

* Bill Williamson in ''Film/Rampage'' is a believer of global warming, since he is an atheist and very pro-science. He has blamed global warming and pollution for the poor economy since global warming leads to ruination or depletion of natural resources and he believes skeptics and deniers of this phenomenon should be executed by gunfire.