I just watched the Spielberg movie AI again, and with some of the recent talk here about global warming I remembered something which bothered me about the details the first time I saw that movie.
The film is evidently set somewhere near Haddonfield, where Spielberg lived for awhile when he was a kid; they mention Haddonfield and Trenton. When they go to "Rouge City" they cross the Delaware River.... I'm guessing that's what has become of Philadelphia. OTOH, maybe I'm wrong and they're actually somewhere in Upstate Jersey because you can see mountains outside the apartment windows (or maybe the designer just didn't know any better)?
At the beginning of the film the narrator says it's set in a time in the future when greenhouse gasses caused the polar ice caps to melt, destroying the great cities on the coasts, including New York. Later in the movie they go to New York where the sea has risen all the way to the bottom of the torch on the statue of liberty.
Now if New York was flooded that deep then surely Haddonfield, the Delaware and Philadelphia would also be submerged under hundreds of feet of water too. I think most of Haddonfield is only around 60' elevation.
OK, OK, it's only a movie and obviously a fantasy. But for a fun mental exercise... where would the new beachfront property be if the oceans really rose that high? The Poconos and Catskills? They certainly wouldn't have to rise very far to put the pine barrens back at the bottom of the sea, like they used to be
The film is evidently set somewhere near Haddonfield, where Spielberg lived for awhile when he was a kid; they mention Haddonfield and Trenton. When they go to "Rouge City" they cross the Delaware River.... I'm guessing that's what has become of Philadelphia. OTOH, maybe I'm wrong and they're actually somewhere in Upstate Jersey because you can see mountains outside the apartment windows (or maybe the designer just didn't know any better)?
At the beginning of the film the narrator says it's set in a time in the future when greenhouse gasses caused the polar ice caps to melt, destroying the great cities on the coasts, including New York. Later in the movie they go to New York where the sea has risen all the way to the bottom of the torch on the statue of liberty.
Now if New York was flooded that deep then surely Haddonfield, the Delaware and Philadelphia would also be submerged under hundreds of feet of water too. I think most of Haddonfield is only around 60' elevation.
OK, OK, it's only a movie and obviously a fantasy. But for a fun mental exercise... where would the new beachfront property be if the oceans really rose that high? The Poconos and Catskills? They certainly wouldn't have to rise very far to put the pine barrens back at the bottom of the sea, like they used to be
