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'.