The plot:
The climatologist Prof. Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) has predicted a new ice age. However, he would never even have dreamt that he would ever experience it for himself. Huge and sudden changes of the Earth's climate makes the climate system divert from it's natural balance, causing destruction and chaos: Floods, tornadoes, hail and temperatures, which have never previously been experienced to such an extent, menace the planet. Jack has to convince the president of the United States immediately that the whole country has to be evacuated, in order to save the lives of millions of people in danger, amongst them also the life of his son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal). As Sam is trapped in the deeply frozen New York, Jack begins a dangerous travel against the time ...
Jack Hall is paleoclimatologist. This field of climate science investigates the climate of the past. Working in areas of permanent ice cover is not unusual in this sort of research ...
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Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) is paleoclimatologist © 20th Century Fox
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