Editing The Freeze

[[File:CattleCarEVA.png|thumb|289x289px|The Freeze killed the last of the cows.]]
'''The Freeze''' is a human-engineered catastrophic event that started seven years ago before, during and after the boarding of ''[[Snowpiercer]]''.
==History==

* The Earth's temperature was rapidly rising due to climate change. Wars made the earth even hotter. Ice melted and all species crashed. The Freeze is the consequence of using [[CW-7]] to lower the Earth's temperature, as using the chemical had a much harsher result than expected. CW-7 caused a massive drop in temperature, peaking at about -120°C.<ref name=":0" />
* The resulting climate change killed off almost all life on Earth, leaving ''Big Alice'' and ''Snowpiercer'' carrying the only known survivors.<ref name=":0">''[[First, the Weather Changed]]''</ref>
* Before [[Snowpiercer's Departure]] it was -40 degrees in June, according to [[Zarah Ferami|Zarah]], and dropping. At departure it was -45 degrees and getting colder by the minute.<ref>[[Many Miles From Snowpiercer|''Many Miles From Snowpiercer'']]</ref>
* It is revealed that the rich who didn't get to board the trains tried to hole up in bunkers or upload their consciousness.<ref name=":1">[[Without Their Maker|''Without Their Maker'']]</ref>
* According to newspapers in the [[Library Car]], medics and scientists predicted that the population would survive unless the weather changed, which it did. It also stated that millions of people are migrating to warmer countries in the equatorial, making the countries closes their borders perhaps denoting a explanation for the war spoken of by [[Ruth Wardell]] that occurred in the Horn of Africa. Other newspaper stated that first class vegetable are gone and how Nuclear Plants attracted a lot of survivors due to the possibility of survival with the residual heat of reactor cores, which could be a good explanation of how [[Asha]] survived.<ref>https://sabrina8aw.myportfolio.com/props</ref>

== Pre Series ==

* In the first year [[Joseph Wilford]] separated 3 cars from ''Big Alice'' to save weight and resources, leaving 100 people to [[The First Year Cull of Big Alice|die]] in their sleep, on a secondary track.<ref>[[The Show Must Go On|''The Show Must Go On'']]</ref><ref>[[Bound by One Track|''Bound by One Track'']]</ref>
* After the failure of the [[Year Three Rebellion]], 14 people including [[Old Ivan]] had an arm frozen off.<ref name=":0" />

== Throughout the Series ==

===[[Season 1]]===

* It is revealed that the temperature outside of ''Snowpiercer'' during its passing of Yukon, Canada is around -120°C.<ref name=":0" />
* After the failed revolution [[Ruth Wardell]] freezes an arm off of [[Suzanne]], who volunteered to save her daughter [[Winnie]].<ref name=":2">[[Prepare to Brace|''Prepare to Brace'']]</ref>
* While traveling through Yukon, a Class 3 avalanche breaks a window to the [[Cattle Car]], killing all of the cows and workers, leaving bovines extinct.<ref name=":2" />
* After realizing [[Andre Layton]] escaped from [[The Drawers]], [[Melanie Cavill]] tortured [[Josie Wellstead]] in [[The Hospitality Car]] by using a hose connected to the outside and shattered one of her fingers. Later, with help from [[Bess Till]], Josie freezes the rest of her hand to escape and attempts to kill Melanie by flooding the room with the Freeze. Instead, Melanie escapes, leaving Josie to die in the room filled with outside air.<ref>[[The Universe Is Indifferent|''The Universe Is Indifferent'']]</ref>
* During the Revolution, the [[Jackboots]] executed prisoners, such as [[Walter Flemming]], by Lung of Ice.<ref name=":3">[[The Train Demanded Blood|''The Train Demanded Blood'']]</ref>
* At the end of the Revolution, 7 cars were separated from the train and sent onto a siding.<ref name=":3" /> The occupants froze to death in 13 minutes.

===[[Season 2]]===

* After suffering a suit breach, causing frostbite to her shoulder and lungs, Melanie discovers snow falling despite the fact that it is supposedly too cold for snow, suggesting that the planet is beginning to recover from the Freeze and coming alive again.<ref name=":4">[[The Time of Two Engines|''The Time of Two Engines'']]</ref> After further study, with a [[Weather balloon]], Melanie determines that CW-7 is actually breaking up in the upper atmosphere and falling to the Earth, meaning that the planet will potentially be suitable for colonization again in the survivors' lifetime rather than in a thousand years.<ref name=":5">[[Smolder to Life|''Smolder to Life'']]</ref>
* Wilford brought Snowpiercer to a stop twice, in a attempt to freeze everyone to death, but is foiled both times by Melanie.<ref name=":4" />
* During the failed invasion of ''Big Alice'', [[Icy Bob]] activated a Freeze deployment system in the [[Docking Car (Big Alice)|Docking Car]], that released Freeze air, that injured and killed the invaders and forced them to retreat.<ref name=":4" /> Icy Bob also exposes himself to the Freeze, in a sub-zero chamber, in the [[Headwoods' Lab (Big Alice)|lab]] on ''Big Alice''.<ref>[[A Great Odyssey|''A Great Odyssey'']]</ref>
* After blowing up the Connecting Mechanism, Wilford told Melanie: "My crew know life below zero. We've run a lot of rough miles together."<ref name=":5" />
* After being discovered as Wilford's informant, [[Pastor Logan]] commits suicide by breathing in the Freeze, with a hose and bag on his head.<ref>[[Our Answer for Everything|''Our Answer for Everything'']]</ref>
* Boki lays the Breachmen to rest by dumping the bodies out of a car while passing over a bridge. The bodies then shatter upon impacting the frozen surface.<ref name=":6">[[The Eternal Engineer|''The Eternal Engineer'']]</ref>
* After the Breachmen murders, rioters (including [[Jakes Carter]], [[Annie]] and [[Thirdie Yeller]]) attempted to Freeze off an arm of [[Pike]] and then Layton, before being stopped by Ruth.<ref>[[Our Answer for Everything|''Our Answer for Everything'']]</ref>
* Icy Bob later walks along the top of the trains to sabotage [[The Engine]] and afterwards dies aboard Big Alice.<ref name=":6" />
* Josie exposed her hand to the Freeze in a chamber designed to open to the outside and discovered she has resistance to the cold.<ref name=":7">[[The Show Must Go On|''The Show Must Go On'']]</ref>
* After taking control of the train, Wilford executed the 8 [[Breachmen]] murderers (including [[Eugenia]]) in a car by the Lung of Ice.<ref name=":7" />
* After Wilford sabotaged her rescue, Melanie returned to the [[Breslauer Weather Station]]. Realizing she would not survive, she used the last of her power to save the data, wrote a note to [[Alexandra Cavill|Alex]], put on her [[EVA Suit]] and walked outside to die.<ref name=":8">[[Into the White|''Into the White'']]</ref>
* Wilford attempted to have Josie kill [[Bennett Knox]] (and [[Sykes]]) by breaching The Engine.<ref name=":8" />
* When Josie breached [[The Aquarium]] to create the [[Pirate Train]], the cold caused the water to freeze, killed all aquatic life and expanded, destroying the Car and injuring Boki and killing some Jackboots.<ref name=":8" />
* After being recovered by Layton and Alex, Melanie's data shows several areas that are warming, in most of Central America and South Mexico, parts of the top and bottom of South America, Spain and southwest Europe, much of the upper parts of Africa as well as the Middle East and Greece, parts of Asia, South Africa and Madagascar, about two-thirds of South Australia and two small spots in the Dominican Republic and South India. However, North America still appears to be completely frozen over with no warm areas.<ref name=":8" />

===[[Season 3]]===

* Without ''Snowpiercer''’s engine, temperature inside [[Wilford's Rolling Gulag]] is in the negatives. First Class is decommissioned, with temperatures in the [[1st Class Dining]] car reaching -25°C. Deaths also occurred from influenza.<ref name=":9">[[The Tortoise and the Hare|''The Tortoise and the Hare'']]</ref>
* Research reveals that the Philippines and the Horn of Africa are warming, while the upper parts of Africa and parts of the Arabian Peninsula are no longer warm.<ref name=":9" />
* While returning to the Pirate Train, after collecting the ice cores, Bennett falls through the roof of a bunker and almost freezes to death, when his suit nearly runs out of power. Layton and Josie rescue him, though Layton himself almost freezes to death after giving Ben enough battery to last until getting on the train. While investigating sounds, Layton finds a [[Asha|survivor]].<ref name=":9" />
* Later [[Bennett Knox|Bennett]] determines that the locations checked out won't be habitable for about a century, as even though it's warming, the trends aren't steep enough to be habitable yet. However the Gulf of Aden has yet to be investigated.<ref>[[The Last to Go|''The Last to Go'']]</ref>
* [[Kevin McMahon]] used a hose filled with the Freeze in the [[Night Car]] to torture [[Strong Boy]] to death.<ref name=":10">[[The First Blow|''The First Blow'']]</ref>
* After failing to escape the rail yard and the Pirate Train, Wilford threatened to kill everyone on the train (including himself), unless the Pirate Train reconnected.<ref name=":10" />
* After taking the train, Layton tells Snowpiercer that they have visited Sulawesi (Indonesian Island), Gujarat (India), Managua (Nicaragua), the Atacama (Chile) and that not one of them was warm enough for life.<ref name=":10" />
* Big Alice later arrived at the [[New Eden|warm spot]], a microclimate (inversion), in a valley, in the Horn of Africa and found the temperature to be above freezing, with a lake of liquid water and melting snow.<ref>[[The Original Sinners|''The Original Sinners'']]</ref>

== Trivia ==
* The mean annual temperature of the interior of Antarctica is -57°C, making the world in the Freeze almost three times colder.
* As mentioned by Alex, nematodes (roundworms) will survive.<ref name=":5" />
* After the Freeze killed all life on Earth, the only animals left are on ''Snowpiercer'' and ''Big Alice''. They include, a pet tegu (in First Class), [[Erik Sotto|Erik Sotto']]s cat ([[Snowpeter]]), aquatic life in the Aquaculture Cars, fish in a tank (in [[Jinju Seong|Jinju Seong']]s quarters), pigs, goats, poultry, sheep, rats with the Tailies or the [[Headwoods' Lab (Big Alice)|Headwoods' Lab]], 2 or 3 dogs, (including [[Jupiter]]) cockroaches, bugs and worms (in Sanitation Cars).
* Bees<ref name=":1" /> and cows<ref name=":2" /> survived on Snowpiercer for 4 and 7 years, before they went extinct.
* CW-7 was originally engineered to last a thousand years, in order to protect the Earth from Global Warming for that long.<ref name=":5" />
* According to the first weather balloon launched from the Engine, the temperature in the upper atmosphere is at least -86 degrees Celsius (presumably -26 degrees or more, due to beeping heard from the computer every time the readout got warmer).<ref name=":5" />
* In reality, creating a thing like CW-7 would be [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injection Stratospheric aerosol injection].
== Gallery ==
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Chicago prefreeze 2.JPG|Chicago before the Freeze
Chicago prefreeze 3.JPG
Chicago prefreeze.JPG|Chicago broiling
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WilfordIndustriesCompound.jpg|The final days of the Freeze
SnowpiercerWheels.jpg|Departure
Chicagopilot2.JPG
Chicagopilot3.JPG
BigAliceInChicago.png|Chicago frozen
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</gallery>


==References==
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