This could be just a different type of ice corer though. They look a little more heavy duty than most of the ones I have found pictured on the internet (one is pictured right). In my opinion this looks like a pretty good match for an actual corer, since they likely used one in real life while filming the movie. Most ice cores can extend up to 3km in depth, far exceeding what they started to do here ( British Antarctic Survey).Ġ:03:35 - What is the equipment that they use? We get a brief glimpse of the actual drill going into the ice.
The 26 feet depth of their drill is really just the start of most ice core drilling.
The movie has this pictured pretty accurately ( NASA), although each drilling station in real life is going to be different due to the individual personalities working on the project. Pictured left is some of the ice core drilling that is going on in Greenland. The main purpose of an ice core is to obtain information locked in the ice. Ice cores are typically drilled using mobile installations since you want to drill multiple cores over a variety of areas, similar to drilling cores for oil but you never actually find any "oil". In the movie, they start by retrieving ice cores that are 26 feet deep. Most of the world's ice-shelves are typically found around Antarctica but they can be located anywhere where a glacier runs into an open body of water ( NSIDC).Ġ:03:15 - The first part of the movie is actually rather commonplace in the world of geology, retrieving ice cores. An ice-shelf is a floating piece of ice attached to the land, fed by an advancing glaciers (a large sheet of ice on land). Not a bad goal but causing panic is not always the best way of going about it.Ġ:00:53 - In the movie, the scientists are retrieving ice cores along the Larsen B Ice Shelf, off the coast of Antarctica (pictured right). Now, I have not read this book so I can not make a review of the it, but according to the reviews of the book it seems that it is written by some extreme ecologists who are just trying to push global ecological reform.
Other critiques of the movie can be found at 2016: The Year without a Summer, ClimateSight, and .įirst off, the movie is not an original idea but is actually based on the novel The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber. I will also make time notes for when that part of the commentary is referring to. With that over, on to the geological review. This is not a critique on the acting, this is about how scientifically accurate is the movie. Personally with all the "science" in the movie pushed aside I rather enjoyed this move as a mindless "action movie". Indiana Jones and the Chronology of Chaos.
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