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One might say "Global Warming is the New Nuke", since it has largely supplanted the role the A-bomb once had in fiction as a catalyst for The End of the World as We Know It. In fiction, the effects of global warming are often drastically exaggerated for the purposes of creating immediate drama. Everything within a thousand miles of the tropics becomes an inhospitable desert, with places like Canada, Siberia and Scandinavia becoming the last refuges of humanity. Massive tornadoes, hurricanes and wildfires start striking all over the planet. Absurdly swift rises in the sea level are also fairly common, with fictional works frequently portraying walls of water flooding all the coastal cities on the planet all at once rather than extremely gradually. A sea level rise of that magnitude necessitates the melting of most of the world's major ice sheets, something that would take decades in even the most radical scenarios. Here is a good app for demonstrating this point. Even the worst-case predictions for global warming don't involve any kind of sudden globally catastrophic event of the sort so popular in disaster movies, but rather a planet that gradually becomes less hospitable to human life. While global warming is often referred to as being rapid, that's "rapid" in geological terms. Compared to past cooling and warming trends (the ones that have brought Earth into and out of its past ice ages), a century-long gradual rise in temperature that substantially affects human life would be very rapid indeed. In reality, while there are some possible (but less likely) scenarios where there could be movie-style doomsdays (and even in these unlikely scenarios, "doomsday" wouldn't happen everywhere at once), in general global warming is a far more subtle phenomenon, with its potential effects being long-term phenomena such as more frequent and more severe droughts, famines, floods, and possibly magnification of certain common weather patterns, generally more heavily affecting the less developed parts of the world where farming is more difficult and food somewhat scarcer than in the developed world. Because the environment in the real world is complicated, no single drought or melted glacier can ever be shown to have resulted only from global warming; the effect only appears in statistical data gathered over many years, and can only be tentatively identified as a contributory factor in some of these effects. For the developed world, the most relevant consequences of global warming may not be its direct effect on the local weather, but rather the effects that changing weather patterns elsewhere might have on the geopolitical climate. The increasing frequency and intensity of famine and other various ecological problems that might result could conceivably cause political unrest and upheaval in the populations of developing countries. The tension in particularly sensitive regions of the world could start wars, even nuclear ones. In short, the (very) long-term situation might ultimately resemble Mad Max more than Waterworld. A debate among the media and the general public rages on over the veracity of climate change, especially anthropogenic global warming. There is no such debate in the accredited peer-reviewed scientific community, where it is firmly accepted that the world is warming and 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 the facts are here. We're about media rather than science, and it could be Flame Bait. The debate, in any event, rages on in full view of the media; very few doubt that this intense Flame War 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. 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 — as the oceanic and atmospheric conveyor belts that move heat around the planet shift location, one area becomes warmer and drier, another may get colder and wetter, and a third experiences more extreme and sudden shifts between the two. Other terms have also started coming up, like "global weirding" which covers more or less the same place as "climate change", and the more pointed and accurate "climate disruption" or "climate distortion" now being promoted in the interest of Brutal Honesty about the situation. If a work includes a phenomenon meant to allegorically invoke global warming, that's a Climate Change Allegory. Works that prominently feature global warming often include a Green Aesop. It's a probable cause for a Natural Disaster Cascade in fiction. Particularly dramatic cases may lead to a Flooded Future World. For what happens when climate changes too far in the other direction, see Glacial Apocalypse. Note: This page is only for examples concerning the portrayal of global warming in fiction. With all due respect and sensitivity, Real Life examples need to be avoided. Global warming as a rather controversial and politicized issue has become pure Flame Bait (especially in the United States). Global warming does exist, and that's all that needs to be said here. noreallife |
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His Dark Materials: In The Amber Spyglass, the portal between the worlds created an increase of temperatures that made things harder for the native sentient polar bears. They are later driven to the Himalayas, and things aren't any better there. | |
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Since Civilization: Call to Power and its sequel continue much further into the future than a normal game in the main series, this concept is taken to its logical conclusion. The problem gets much, much worse before ultimately getting better through the use of advanced technology (and, possibly, ecoterrorism). Of course, by that point, the majority of your population will have likely already relocated to undersea cities and/or space — both of which don't suffer from pollution whatsoever — rendering the point somewhat moot. | |
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In Terraforming Mars, global warming is for once seen as a good thing and an objective — but that's global warming on Mars, which needs to be made warmer to make it habitable. It can be done by way of asteroid impacts, releasing volcanic energy, or just with good old-fashioned greenhouse gases. | |
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In Children of Mother Earth, this trope turned most of the world into desert-like countries, in which life is only possible with massive use of technology, and famines are common. On the other hand, there is Greenland, which became green again due to the global warming, and which the inhabitants, by wisely using the knowledge of former mistakes, made a good place to live in. | |
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea features a non-human-caused version of global warming, predating the contemporary issue. The ice caps melt, leaving chunks of ice to rain down on the Seaview, which ignores the fact that ice, you know, floats. It's shown how hot it's getting around the world by taking Stock Footage and tinting it fire engine red. Oh, and we haven't even gotten into the absurdities of how this was caused in the first place. It's resolved through Deus ex Nukina, of course. (Don't ask why this is the plot of a movie titled Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.) | |
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In both Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam and Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash, the devastation of the climate by the incompetent Federation serves as the partial motivation for the protagonist's faction (AEUG and Maufty, respectively). | |
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The Cyanide & Happiness Show: News To Me With Chip Chapley mocks Climate Change Deniers with one guest being a Climate Denier. The Climate Denier believes weather to be a conspiracy and stuff like wind and rain to be types of holograms. | |
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The Whiteboard: One Filler strip has Doc start to launch into a rant about global warming, only to be interrupted by a mallet to the head. Several weeks later, Alaskan weather inspired a snow-cleaning arc: |
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The Expanse: While never discussed explicitly, it is shown in the series' opening montage that shows the development of the solar system. There are also clearly seawalls around New York City to keep the rising sea at bay. Which is also a source of irony. While those in space are killing each other over water, Earth is practically drowning in it. | |
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The Simpsons: Parodied; Lisa examines a museum diorama of Manhattan which promises to show what the effects of global warming will be "over the next three years"; the city is entirely submerged, with tiny plastic bodies floating around. In an attempt to reassure her, Marge says "Three years is a long time." In another episode, the kids go on a field trip to Springfield Glacier, which is reduced to a pathetic hunk of ice floating in a lake. Lisa spends the whole trip ranting about global warming, with the park ranger flatly denying it because "the government's stance on global warming is that it does not exist". Apparently in the 2005 20 Minutes into the Future episode taking place eight years in the future. Maggie sends a video postcard enjoying the Alaskan beach and shows a polar bear barely surviving. |
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In Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, runaway pollution can make terrain change, earth sink, and if you don't have a Pressure Dome, the rising water can destroy cities (and units who apparently couldn't escape from the slowly raising water). But fear not, because with a Pressure Dome the city becomes a floating city, plus your formers can raise the land, and if you get the Planetary Council to agree, you can launch a solar shade to cool the planet. The Planetary Council can also decide to melt the polar ice caps, causing global warming on purpose (which isn't as nonsensical as you might think; they are terraforming Planet, after all). You can arrange this in order to flood your rival's coastal cities. | |
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Sidewinder F is set in an Ocean Punk-type setting after melting glaciers have flooded most of the planet. | |
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In Cracked's list of possible ways the world could end fairly shortly, two are global warming-related. Truth in Television, Rule of Funny, or nonprofessional research tactics? Only the writers know. | |
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Freefall: A 2001 strip mentions this in relation to Helix's Vampire Florence theory. | |
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Waterworld has the entire planet, save a few high mountaintops, covered by water. This would require more water than is currently on the planet: were all the ice caps to melt (a process which would take centuries at the present rate), the sea level would rise over 220 feet — catastrophic, sure, but there would still be plenty of solid land left. | |
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In an early chapter of Yotsuba&!, Asagi introduces Yotsuba to the concept of air conditioners, but Ena tells her about global warming, leading to a brief stint as an environmental crusader to her father (Koiwai: "You know about that?!") until Asagi calms her down by saying that if the Earth gets too hot, people can use the air conditioners to cool it down again. This might be a metaphor for the need for technical solutions to climate change... or a cute story about a kid. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion manages to both play with and avert the problem. Second Impact (also a man-driven catastrophe) causes the destruction of Antarctica first, resulting in a lot of underwater real estate. It's somewhat important to note that Second Impact's name comes from it being an asteroid impact (or at least that's the cover story), which is a much better reason for rapid sea level rise than an intensification of the greenhouse effect. What actually happened, the activation of an alien terraforming device, is an even better reason, particularly since there's not enough water on Earth to raise sea levels as high as they are shown. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, it's offhandedly mentioned noted that North Africa is no longer habitable due to global warming. At the end of the same show, Operation British completely wrecks the planet's environment. | |
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Earth's scenario in TerraGenesis has Earth suffering rapid and more dangerous global warming, in which you are given terraforming technologies to tame the Earth's climate and return it back to its normal state. If you let Earth succumb to global warming, it will eventually dry up into a red barren planet like Mars. | |
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Battle Engine Aquila is based during a war over the 13 remaining islands after the sea level rises. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): Subverted in "The Midnight Sun", in which 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). It's a subversion because the Cruel Twist Ending is that it's All Just a Dream by a young woman whose Earth is freezing rather than roasting. | |
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Global warming is 'solved' by the villain Killface in Frisky Dingo. While he attempts to destroy the Earth with a rocket that will drive it into the sun, the rocket instead moves the Earth one foot away from the sun, effectively undoing global warming permanently. He parlays this into a failed Presidential run, his slogan being 'I solved global warming! Now you can have your factories, and your SUVs and your tanks.' | |
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Civilization: In Civilization IV, Global Warming is one of the disasters that can strike your larger cities in the late game. The effects of "global warming" in game are bizarre, strike locally and aren't restricted to coastal towns or other locales most likely to be affected by actual global temperature increase. Just imagine a news story about buildings being destroyed in downtown Denver by global warming and you'll see how strange this gets. The older games treated it more severely, however, with a global meter that tracked pollution output and would do nasty things like raise sea levels, destroying any cities or units on coastal plots, although some of the weird effects might be explained by exceptionally strong storms and such. The Global Warming mechanic returns in the second expansion of Civilization VI, keeping track of how much carbon dioxide each civilization emits, causing melting of the polar ice caps, flooding of coastal tiles and worsening of natural disasters like droughts, floods and tropical storms. Late game technologies introduce various power sources that provide less or no emissions and a very late game option unlocks the Carbon Sequestration project which can, if done often enough actually reduce the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Since Civilization: Call to Power and its sequel continue much further into the future than a normal game in the main series, this concept is taken to its logical conclusion. The problem gets much, much worse before ultimately getting better through the use of advanced technology (and, possibly, ecoterrorism). Of course, by that point, the majority of your population will have likely already relocated to undersea cities and/or space — both of which don't suffer from pollution whatsoever — rendering the point somewhat moot. |
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Clade follows a family over the course of about six decades as they deal with the increasingly devastating effects of global warming — power outages, the extinction of things like birds, bees, and bananas, massive hurricanes and fires, the flooding of coastal regions including the entire country of Bangladesh, and the collapse of the economy. | |
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In an episode of My Name Is Earl, Earl visits a former stoner he robbed (who now lives in a hippie commune) and learns about global warming. He becomes scared, and spends the episode obsessively trying to go green. After Earl has a breakdown, the ex-stoner helps him see that he doesn't have to do everything and that he can only do his best. | |
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This is part of the future backstory in SOON. The climate change played havoc with the world before Dr Fang's research helped to stop the damage. If Atlas messes with the past to prevent this from happening, traveling to 2023 grants the player with a bad ending where Australia is now underwater. | |
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In Schlock Mercenary, Earth built a ring of orbital mirrors in the late 21st century to mitigate global warming. In the late 31st century, they're still around as a cultural monument until the New Year's Eve of 3100, when the mirrors are hijacked and used to incinerate the UNS capital. | |
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The Barrier: The effects of climate change take a backseat to the fact that New Spain is a Police State dictatorship and has to deal with its version of The Plague, but are still present. Droughts are implied to be present via the running water in the enclave for the elites explicitly being desalted sea water, people outside said enclave getting their water out of plastic jugs and one of the pieces of Graffiti of the Resistance from the opening credits being "remember the rain". There is also a Flashback to the time of the Distant Prologue where a couple of characters visit a lake one last time before it dries up that cuts to the lake's dried-up present counterpart. | |
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The Vorkosigan Saga is set far enough into the future that sea levels have already risen; London is protected by a system of barrier walls. | |
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In Transformers: Super-God Masterforce, the main effect of the Decepticons' Kill Sat is to erode the ozone layer. A single shot quickly results in the polar ice caps melting and flooding at the base of the Himalayas. This is a research flub, because ozone is a greenhouse gas, and destroying it would cool the Earth — although it would greatly increase the rate of sunburn and melanoma, as ozone blocks high energy ultra-violet light coming in from the sun. | |
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Wonder Woman: Black and Gold: After Diana gets Apollo to stop messing with the Earth's orbit, he points out that several of the things she was blaming on him are actually due to climate change caused by humans, and that if nothing changes the livability of Earth will soon be permanently decreased. | |
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Make Room! Make Room! features global warming as a side effect of overpopulation. | |
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The end of the "Rite of Spring" segment of Fantasia has 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. | |
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The Day After Tomorrow revolves around a sudden catastrophic global Ice Age precipitated by global warming. This concept is very loosely based on a theory that global warming will disrupt certain mid-Atlantic Ocean currents, resulting in a 20-to-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 two days, nor that it will form super-cooled columns capable of freezing the fuel(!) in a running(!!) helicopter engine. | |
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Life-Force: Alongside genetic modification and oppressive governments, global warming is one of the main themes and plot points of the series. In 2025, most land is depicted to be vastly drowned and flooded as a result of runaway rising sea levels from the polar ice caps melting. The fact that scientists knew of the danger but ultimately failed to stop it is then used by the antagonistic federal task force The Commission as an onus to scapegoat them and outlaw their practice, arresting ecological activists and hunting down recent genetically engineered people as a result. | |
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Though axed from the theatrical version, in Avatar, the Earth has been doomed to die from the destruction of its ecosystems in part to humans' role of contributing to global warming and deforestation. With the Earth no longer a suitable home world, this is what influenced the RDA to evacuate humans into space colonization and eventually settling on Pandora. | |
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Zeus Is Dead: Artemis, goddess of nature (among other things) claims to have come up with global warming in an effort to get mortals to respect the environment more. | |
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In the finale episode of 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 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. | |
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In Help! I'm a Fish, a scientist creates a potion that allows people to turn into fish fearing that global warming is melting down the polar ice caps. | |
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In Beecarbonize, your long-term goal is to mitigate the effects of global warming by reducing the amount of greenhouse emissions produced by the four sectors: Industry, Ecosystems, People, and Science. Failing to do so will make the Emissions meter pass Tipping Points, which are natural disasters you have to spend resources on in order to mitigate them. Failing to resolve them in time will penalize you by depleting your resources, removing your cards, or adding more emissions or event cards after their timers run out. If you reach the final Tipping Point, the game ends due to the catastrophic environmental destruction the Earth has suffered due to global warming. | |
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The Onion has an article on the melting ice exposing secret arctic Supervillain Lairs. | |
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State of Fear is all about the controversy over global warming. It is worth noting that it resembles the accusations of Climategate and Glaciergate, but differs substantially in the details in that in the book, climate change as a whole is a hoax, whereas in the two 'gates, the greens insist that all it proves is that two scientists need better proofreading. | |
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Global warming is just one of the many things dooming humanity in Earth 2100. | |
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In Freeciv, each time pollution worsens and global warming advances, the entire world loses coastal land for jungles and swamps, and inland squares are lost to desert. This tends to devastate cities and leads to global impoverishment. Forcing global warming can be used offensively against other players. | |
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Birdemic has a blatant Green Aesop, with the main character involved in solar panel technology, a scene dedicated to the main characters watching and discussing An Inconvenient Truth, and the eponymous "birdemic" being caused by Gaia's Revenge for global warming, pollution and other crimes against the environment. | |
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Climate Town is mostly satire on the human factors causing dramatic climate change and changes in human behavior, mostly the behavior of politicians and greedy corporations, that needs to change to keep the world a decent place to live. | |
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Futurama: In "Xmas Story", Fry comments that mountain snow is beautiful and that he's glad global warming never happened. Leela responds that it did, but nuclear winter canceled it out. "Crimes of the Hot" revolves around global warming. An educational film shown at the beginningnote actually used in An Inconvenient Truth; it helps that Gore's daughter is one of Futurama's writers shows that the solution was to put ice cubes from Halley's Comet (the only source of ice that doesn't have bugs in them) into the ocean, but when Halley's runs out of ice, a conference is called. There, Prof. Farnsworth reveals that the cause of global warming is pollution from robots, so all the robots are lured to the Galapagos islands, where they are to be destroyed. Farnsworth saves the robots and prevents global warming at the same time by having all the robots vent upward at once, thus moving the Earth further away from the sun and solving the problem once and for all. |
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The opening of World War Z 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. | |
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In Hadestown, due to Hades and Persephone's deteriorating marriage and the heavy industrialization of the Underworld, the world above only has summer and winter, and either one can come at a moment's notice. Orpheus's quest is to write a song to fix things and bring back spring and fall, putting the weather back in order. | |
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Global warming is a part of the dystopic backstory of Frontlines: Fuel of War, with a "super-hurricane" hitting Alaska in 2021. | |
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Submarine Titans: The background material indicates that the Earth is going through some heavy global warming following the fifteen-year winter in the aftermath of Clarke Comet's impact. Since the game takes place at the bottom of the ocean, it doesn't really affect the societies living down there. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball sometimes delves into the topic of global warming: In "The Loophole", Gumball and Darwin tell the dangerously Literal-Minded robot Bobert to protect all life on Earth. He concludes that humanity is the greatest threat to life on Earth for contributing to global warming, leading him to try to Kill All Humans. "The Faith" has Gumball and Darwin try to cheer up Alan by singing a song about how life isn't bad despite all of the bad stuff that happen. One of the things they sing about how "the environment is suffering and might not be reversed". Later on in the song, a character is seen reading a newspaper with the headline "GLOBAL WARNING — NO HOPE". "The Candidate" has the students of Elmore Junior High stuck in a damp room, as they decide to elect a leader to sort their limited food supply. Darwin keeps bringing up the rising temperature of the room, but everybody else ignores him or shrugs it off. The school's boiler eventually blows up, leaving the school in ruins. |
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In Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, sea levels have risen dramatically, submerging entire cities, although global warming is never explicitly mentioned as the cause. The extreme version of this trope is averted however, since the rise is shown to be happening gradually, over generations. This greatly adds to the atmosphere of the work: Humanity is slowly fading away, and the fact that this is a slow and gradual Cozy Catastrophe, rather than an explosive overnight change, just makes it more poignant. | |
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Pleasant Goat Fun Class: A more realistic global warming scenario is demonstrated in The Earth Carnival episode 7, which has a segment where Weslie calls out Wolffy for using an air conditioner on the highest possible setting, telling him he'll make the Earth hotter. Miss Earth reinforces the lesson when Wolffy accuses Weslie of lying, telling Wolffy that he'll send enough carbon dioxide into the air to heat up the Earth if he uses too much electricity. It's suggested that he opens the window for air instead. | |
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Bill Williamson from 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 as he adamantly warns that in the next century, the Earth will be irreversibly decimated and uninhabitable. | |
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Dyztopia: Post-Human RPG: At some point in the past, the Earth's temperature increased to the point where it melted humans in cryosleep. Even if Asterisk didn't invade Earth, the extreme temperatures would have wiped out humanity anyways. | |
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In Jubei-chan, this is the reason why Freesia was freed from being a Human Popsicle. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants advocates the consensus that global warming is real and caused by humans. In Season 1's "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy", the Shady Shoals clerk is reading a newspaper that says "Global ocean warming". 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 tries 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 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. |
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In the Left Behind book The Remnant, one of God's Bowl Judgments is this on a scale that is very lethal to both the undecided and those who have taken the Mark of the Beast and worshiped Carpathia's image. It causes the polar ice caps to melt, raising the sea level and causing the dead carcasses of sea animals from a previous Bowl Judgment to wash further inward. It lasts until God causes a supernatural Big Blackout in New Babylon with His next Bowl Judgment. | |
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Gifts of Wandering Ice is set in a world affected by global warming after a short ice age. | |
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Splatoon's backstory indicates that mankind and almost all land-dwelling animals were killed off in large part due to global warming. However, there are still ruins of human civilization even after twelve millennia, from the underground domes that most of the Octarian species live in, to some of the stages in the Salmon Run mode (which includes a failed attempt at a space ark), to the various ruins littering both the surface and underground of Splatoon 3's Splatlands. | |
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Anno 2070, the futuristic spin-off of the Anno Domini series, takes place in time where global warming has gotten so bad that people were forced to settle on what were formerly mountains, and the game revolves around colonizing these small pieces of land. This carries over into Anno 2205, 2070's more or less direct sequel. Things are looking up here and there, with the polar ice caps partially restored and kept frozen by advanced technology, coupled with a worldwide reliance on sustainable resources and energy, but even these measures couldn't keep the overall situation from deteriorating to the point that settling the Moon has become a viable endeavor. | |
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In the Doctor Who episode "Robot of Sherwood", the Doctor finds the weather unseasonably warm and mild for autumn. Clara suggests global warming, but the Doctor points out that's not likely in 1190. | |
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This is a mechanic in Terra Invicta, and one of the threats every faction must manage alongside dealing with the Alien Invasion. Every faction needs to be wary of letting global warming run amok. Even the most corrupt and villainous factions need to keep Earth hospitable to keep their economies running. | |
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The Greg Mandel Trilogy is set in a sweltering tropical Britain. However, the worst of the crisis — including flooding, refugees, a Credit Crash and an extreme left-wing dictatorship — has passed, and people are now used to the conditions, expressing bemusement at the idea of snow. | |
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This trope is one of the prime features of Fate of the World. | |
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The plot of Ketsui is that by 2054, nations have gone into World War III due to global warming causing the melting of the polar ice caps, triggering rising sea levels, people fleeing to higher ground en masse, and resources being drained due to the loss of dry land. The MegaCorp EVAC Industry capitalizes on this to sell weapons and make huge fortunes for the company's top brass. | |
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In Brink!, global warming has caused the seas to rise, covering most of the Earth. | |
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This is one of the possible consequences of letting your ecosystem become unbalanced in Spore. You can cause it yourself by running around enemy planets with a heat ray, causing settlements there to undergo Critical Existence Failure. 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 animals. | |
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The Age of Stupid depicts a future where global warming has ravaged the planet — London is flooded, Sydney is burning, the Amazon rainforest has burnt up, and humanity is facing extinction, with the film itself focusing on an unnamed archivist who's trying to learn why this has occurred. | |
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In X/1999, 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. | |
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South Park has quite a few anvilicious episodes attacking global warming in general, and The Day After Tomorrow in particular. In the episode "Goobacks", the unemployed rednecks were talking about how to make sure the future never happens so that the people from the future won't take their jobs. One guy suggested using global warming to cause an Ice Age, which is shot down for being idiotic. In the episode "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow", Stan and Cartman destroy a beaver dam, and the resulting flood is blamed on global warming. Then there's the episode "ManBearPig", in which they mock Al Gore as an alarmist who believes in crackpot things, with the eponymous creature (who is part man, part bear, and part pig) being a figment of his imagination. 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 later changed their positions after increasingly severe disasters and further studies made it clear climate change really was a problem. They went on to express their regrets through the Season 22 two-parter "Time to Get Cereal" and "Nobody Got Cereal", in which the boys find out that ManBearPig is very real and is looking to slaughter everyone in its path and have to apologize to Al Gore, who's a little too glad to tell them "I told you so", in order to get his help so that they can stop the creature's rampage. | |
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Chainsawsuit: The 13 Feb 2009 strip tries to outdo this. | |
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In the tokusatsu Black Comedy The World Sinks Except Japan, global warming has made the sea levels rise so much that every land mass in the world has sunk... except for Japan. That doesn't make Japan much of a safe refuge, not with giant monsters trashing the place. | |
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In Frank and Percy, Percy's latest book, What If We Stopped Pretending, is about the climate crisis. Although Percy believes climate change is real, he also thinks it's far too late for humanity to stop it, so there's no point in trying. The backlash to the book ruins Percy's career, and its viewpoint leads to arguments with Frank. | |
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Arctic Rising and its sequel Hurricane Fever take place in a warming future where the Arctic Circle is melting, there are farms on Baffin Island and Caribbean islands like Anegada sink beneath the waves forever. The 'Arctic Tiger' nations' economies are booming from newly accessible oil in the North and trade through the Northwest Passage, now a major shipping corridor. | |
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Happens in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, when the villains' attempt to control weather-based legendaries lead to massive climate changes threatening to wipe out humanity. Since this set of games (and the Pokémon franchise as a whole) does appear to have subtle environmental messages in place, it may well have been intentional. | |
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Daphne in the Brilliant Blue has this to the point that the world is completely flooded, and most people lived in underwater cities until a few decades ago. Most of the land is artificial aside from a few mountains that just peak above the sea. | |
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This is a major background element and plot point of The Windup Girl. The novel takes place in 23rd-century Bangkok, which is actually below sea-level after global warming has taken its 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 Thailand, which he uses as political leverage. 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. | |
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The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster asserts that global warming is caused by the absence of pirates (modern pirates like the Somali pirates are not really pirates). It's a parody of the False Cause fallacy. | |
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In the Red Mars Trilogy, 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 the entire Antarctic ice cap melts, flooding large portions of the Earth. | |
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The Future Is Wild has a waterworld stage as one of Earth's natural climatological shifts of the millions of years that the book covers. The Global Ocean, like all the other periods, had its own set of weird critters living in it. | |
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Ice Age: The Meltdown takes place at the end of the last ice age, when the Earth's climate was starting to warm. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Abridged Series: A throwaway joke in one episode of Majora's Mask Abridged blames flooded Hyrule on global warming. | |
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In Soylent Green, the greenhouse effect has led to year-round temperatures in the 90s and 100s, so crops cannot grow and people can only be fed by the Soylent Corporation's processed products, including their latest innovative product. | |
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