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Published: Nov. 21, 2017, 7:45 a.m.

Origins \n\n

Roland Emmerich. And from a book by Art Bell! \u2026of all people. Not known for hard scifi.

\n\n Climate science communication \n\n

Some examples are better than others.

\n\n Arctic vs Antarctic \n\n

They are\u2026 different! How they are different and why the movie might have chosen to go with the \u201cwrong\u201d one for the real-life event on which the opening scene based. Larsen B Ice Shelf. Continental ice vs glacial ice.

\n\n \n Antarctic ice shelves\n\n \n\n A. J. Cook and D. G. Vaughan CC-BY-3.0\n\n \n\n Thermohaline circulation \n\n

Arctic/antarctic events and affect on the thermohaline circulation. The Younger Dryas event as an irl historical example of extreme climate shift which still took decades longer than the events of the film.

\n\n Paleoclimatology \n\n

Human records. Ice Cores! Meteoric ice. Tree rings! Water body beds! Caves!

\n\n Ice cores \n\n

Age and layers. Ash, gas, life, temperatures from oxygen isotope ratios.

\n\n Climate modeling \n\n

Colbert\u2019s insights from The Supercomputing Conference. The big data; it is very big.

\n\n \u201cLandicanes\u201d \n\n

\u2026 which are the name we\u2019ve made up for the misnomered \u201churricanes\u201d that seem to form over land in the movie. Air flow. the Coriolis effect, thermodynamics and superfreezing in the center of the storm.

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1. \n\t\t\t\tInside The Giant American Freezer Filled With Polar Ice by tom Scott: YouTube\n\t\t\t
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2. \n\t\t\t\t13 Misconceptions About Global Warming: YouTube\n\t\t\t
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