Suchen looked at the slice of lemon floating among the ice cubes in her glass and blushed, as though the man were her companion.

NEWYORKER: Alone

Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) is a climatologist who realizes, as a slice of the polar ice cap slides into the sea, that the end of the world (or, at any rate, of that half of the world that drives S.U.V.s) is nigh.

NEWYORKER: The Day After Tomorrow