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| PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY FINALLY GETS A GOOD FIGHT SONG: |
Only three actors flung into the film's dystopic future come back alive, and one, "Charlie", played by Sam Richardson, has fictional credentials perfectly matching those of outspoken climate skeptic Judith Curry, former chair of the atmospheric science department at Georgia Tech.
The NYTimes thinks The Tomorrow War offered Richardson a considerable challenge: his role in " Veep had demanded plenty of verbal dexterity, but facing off against an armada of space beasts would require an entirely different skill set."
Asked at film's end how he survived the Climate Wars of the future, the artful Climateball dodger replies: "I hid.", one of many evasive skills Curry has on occasion demonstrated on Capitol Hill:
Charlie is kept too busy dispatching bug-eyed aliens to complain about Uncertainty Monsters plaguing climate models as Curry does, but she should not fear this back handed homage. It's a bad film, that owes more of its DNA to Waterworld, Them and Starship Troopers than Jurassic Park. Richardson brings the ponderous plot to closure by dating a maguffin, a claw taken from a dead alien that contains particles of earthly volcanic ash. The future is in peril because monsters that crashed into a glacier a milennium ago have been thawed by postmodern global warming.
The moral ? Captain Planet fans at Climate Desk have every right to give marching orders to the screenwriters of the present, for only the past can save the future from itself,
