The Day After Tomorrow, the Movie That Galvanized the Climate Conversation

Dennis Quaid is the only scientist on Earth, and he melts Antarctica by taking some ice core samples. Jake Gyllenhaal gets trapped in the library in New York City; they have to burn books to stay warm. There's a little grain of truth in that movie, which is that as the Earth was getting warmer coming out of the last ice age, there was a blip in the temperature.