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Re:Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of... by geocrasher on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:52PM (#28079629)
Sensationalized? Sure. Hollywood. But incorrect? It's hard to know.
Re:Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of... by jacquesm on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:14PM (#28079948)
The basic premise is faulty, a chance in the ocean currents would not immediately cause massive climate change, it would take a couple of centuries but would be pretty much inevitable. It likely would also accelerate other processes already in motion, so more extreme weather would be a pretty safe bet but not to the degree depicted in the movie.
Re:Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of... by jbay808 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:39PM (#28080282)
Well, they forgot to account for adiabatic heating of that cold air getting pulled out of the upper atmosphere, which would have made it quite hot when it hit the ground. If I recall, that cold air was the central threat in the movie.
Re:Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of... by rjldev on Friday August 06, 2021 @08:04AM (#28085968)
We actually ran the numbers on that as an exercise during my undergrad degree (meteorology), iirc it would end up the same as the surface air temperature