TheGreenFront presents: This Day in Climate History (hat tip to Michael E. Mann) May 28, 2003: The New York Times reports on ExxonMobils crucial role in the climate-denial industry. nytimes/2003/05/28/business/exxon-backs-groups-that-question-global-warming.html May 28, 2004: • The Day After Tomorrow is released in the United States, ultimately grossing $85.8 million over Memorial Day weekend, finishing second to Shrek 2 at the US box office. BoxOfficeGurus Gitesh Pandya notes: Storming into the runnerup spot with the largest gross in history for a number-two picture was Foxs disaster film The Day After Tomorrow with a monumental $68.7M over three days and $85.8M over the four-day span. Directed by Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, Godzilla), the PG-13 entry averaged a mighty $20,071 from 3,425 theaters over three days and a stunning $25,053 over four days to beat out Shrek 2s sophomore averages. The debut was well above industry expectations going into the weekend. The studio unleashed Tomorrow all over the steadily-warming planet attacking 110 countries and generated the largest global opening for a non-sequel ever, according to Fox. International waters brought in a hefty $85M over the Friday-to-Sunday period from over 9,600 screens giving the Dennid Quaid-Jake Gyllenhaal pic a towering $155M gross in its first weekend. Most of that, $53.9M, came from Europe while Asia added $19.2M and Latin America kicked in $11.9M. Carrying a reported production budget of $125M, Tomorrow finds humanity dealing with the rapid onslaught of extreme freezing, tornadoes, hail storms and other natural disasters caused by climate changes due to mankinds neglect of the environment. The Day After Tomorrows four-day tally ranks as the second-best Memorial Day weekend opening ever after The Lost World and slightly edges out last years Bruce Almighty which premiered to $85.7M over the long weekend on its way to $242.8M. The three-day sum is the third-best in studio history for Fox trailing the sequels X2: X-Men United ($85.6M) and Star Wars Episode II ($80M) which were also May bows. Critics were not too kind, but audiences rushed to theaters for two hours of Mother Nature-induced thrills. youtu.be/K_xwj9bHZm4 boxofficeguru/053104.htm web.archive.org/web/20040317221157/movies.yahoo/shop?d=hp&id=1808417409&cf=prev massclimateaction.podbean/e/climate-notes-denial-goes-to-the-movies-podcast/ • The Boston Herald reports on the debate The Day After Tomorrow has triggered over the George W. Bush administrations (lack of a) climate policy. web.archive.org/web/20040619010129/theedge.bostonherald/movieNews/view.bg?articleid=29656 web.archive.org/web/20040609192723/cdn.moveon.org/climatecrisis/flyer.pdf web.archive.org/web/20040611140231/climatecrisis.org/ May 28, 2006: The Washington Post profiles the handful of fossil-fuel-industry-backed crackpots denouncing An Inconvenient Truth. washingtonpost/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/23/AR2006052301305_pf.html May 28, 2013: MSNBCs Chris Hayes rips New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for abandoning concerns about climate change, even after the devastation of Superstorm Sandy. youtu.be/QSMKauenfCQ
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