10 Science Facts That Will Ruin Your Favourite Sci-Fi Movies

10. That's Not How Climate Change Works - The Day After Tomorrow

Okay, get ready to see more from repeat offender Roland Emmerich.

Bear in mind this is the man who made an Apple laptop connect to the operating system of an alien space fleet in Independence Day, when half the time iPhones won't even connect to each other.

2004's corny catastrophe epic The Day After Tomorrow does deserve kudos for being one of the first major blockbusters to take climate change seriously (sorry, Waterworld, but no one could take you seriously), as well depicting a post 9/11 New York destroyed human hubris rather than dicey metaphors for terrorists.

However, as the world is currently discovering since this film’s 2004 release, global climate change doesn’t happen over night (or even over the course of three whole days). According to climate scientists the film's apocalyptic vision of sudden global disaster would in reality occur over many years.

Say, at a pace that most of the Western world could comfortably ignore or outright deny until it's too late to fix...