My views Plot Jack Hall is an American paleoclimatologist , and as he and his colleagues Frank and Jason drill for ice-core samples in the Larsen Ice Shelf for the NOAA , the ice shelf splits away. At a UN conference in New Delhi , Jack discusses his research showing that climate change could cause an ice age , but US Vice President Raymond Becker dismisses his concerns. Professor Terry Rapson, an oceanographer of the Hedland Centre in Scotland , befriends Jack over his views of an inevitable climate shift. Tokyo is struck by a giant hail storm, and astronauts from the International Space Station spot three gigantic superstorms above Canada , Europe , and Siberia . Rapson's team in Scotland begin noticing severe temperature drops from multiple buoys from the North Atlantic realizing Jack's theories were correct, but the climate shift is happeni...