Press Release

May 27, 2004

MEDIA ADVISORY

Contact:
Vivian Stockman, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, 304-927-3265
Tonya Adkins, WV Interfaith Global Climate Change Campaign, 304-529-2675

WHAT/WHO: Joining groups nationwide, local activists will engage Charleston and Huntington theatergoers as they exit "The Day After Tomorrow." They'll hand out fliers developed by the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, the West Virginia Interfaith Global Climate Change Campaign and MoveOn.org in hopes of encouraging people to take action both personally and politically to help stop global warming.

WHEN /WHERE:

--Outside the Park Place Stadium Cinemas, 600 Washington St. East, Charleston, beginning at 6:15 p.m. on Friday May 28

--Outside the Camelot Theatre, 30 4th Ave, Huntington, beginning at 6:15 p.m. on Friday May 28

WHY: While the accelerated climate change scenario depicted in the Hollywood movie is unrealistic, global warming is real. The World Health Organization estimates that at least 160,000 people were killed last year because of global warming!

GLOBAL WARMING IN THE NEWS:

'Global warming is as big a threat to the world as terrorism'

A modest proposal to save the planet
Excerpt: Climate change is the most serious environmental threat the human race has ever faced; perhaps the most serious threat of any kind. The dangers can hardly be exaggerated. Within 100 years, temperatures could rise by 6C worldwide. Much of the earth's surface could become uninhabitable, and most species could be wiped out. In the UK, over the next 50 years, we will experience hotter, drier summers, warmer, wetter winters and rising sea-levels. In most of our lifetimes, millions of British people will be at high risk from flooding; there will be thousands of deaths from excessive summer temperatures; diseases from warmer regions will become established; and patterns of agriculture and business will have to change for ever.

This is not the view of alarmists, but the considered opinion of the overwhelming majority of international climate scientists. It is acknowledged by most governments and their advisers. Last month, government-funded scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle made the key admission that the troposphere is indeed warming at 0.2C per decade - precisely as predicted by the main global-warming models. The UK Government's chief scientist warned the same month that if global warming continues unchecked, by the end of this century Antarctica is likely to be the only habitable continent.

Newsweek: One expert says that some of the scary climate changes envisioned in 'The Day After Tomorrow' aren't as far-fetched as they may seem

Climate change impact on human health acknowledged by the Australian Medical Association 

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