Decipher Scifi : The Show About How And Why

Origins Roland Emmerich. And from a book by Art Bell! …of all people. Not known for hard scifi. Climate science communication Some examples are better than others. Arctic vs Antarctic They are… different! How they are different and why the movie might have chosen to go with the “wrong” one for the real-life event on which the opening scene based. Larsen B Ice Shelf. Continental ice vs glacial ice. Antarctic ice shelves A. J. Cook and D. G. Vaughan CC-BY-3.0 Thermohaline circulation 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. Paleoclimatology Human records. Ice Cores! Meteoric ice. Tree rings! Water body beds! Caves! Ice cores Age and layers. Ash, gas, life, temperatures from oxygen isotope ratios. Climate modeling Colbert’s insights from The Supercomputing Conference. The b