Environmental scientists Morgan Page, Michael Angove and Peter Gleick review the scientific validity of scenes from “San Andreas,” “2012,” “The Day After Tomorrow,” “Volcano,” “Twister,” “Geostorm,” “The Core,” “Interstellar,” “Sharknado,” “The Perfect Storm,” “Pompeii,” “Noah,” “The Impossible,” “The Happening,” “Hard Rain,” and “Into the Storm”.
Environmental Experts:
Michael Angove – Tsunami Program Manager, NOAA
Dr. Morgan Page – Geophysicist, USGS
Peter Gleick – Hydrologist & Climatologist, Pacific Institute (www.gleick.com)
Tornado Safety info: https://www.weather.gov/safety/tornado
Tsunami Safety info: https://www.weather.gov/safety/tsunami
California Tsunami Safety info: https://www.tsunamizone.org
More about the UN/IOC Tsunami Program here: http://www.ioc-tsunami.org
The Pacific Institute: www.pacinst.com
Can my boat outrun a tsunami?
https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/Documents/Tsunami/Can-my-boat-outrun-a-tsunami.pdf
NOAA’s influence on Twister: https://www.noaa.gov/stories/noaa-tornado-scientists-inspired-twister-creators-20-years-ago
Special thanks to Hollywood Math & Science Film Consulting: https://www.hollywoodmath.com
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I live in Tornado Alley. Real Tornados are scarier than the movies.
i see that you guys have a book about twister witch is a movie🌁📀
Have historians review Droughts and famines pls 😊
Of all the problems with The Core, they picked the birds to focus on?
3:13 but that’s the end of the world ma’am 😭
Plants making people crazy: It has been proposed that toxoplasmosis can cause schizophrenia. Toxoplasmosis is a parasite that infect warm-blooded animals and is often spread by cats.
That’s all they talk about for “The Core” is the migratory pattern of birds? Could you not have talked about how impossible it is to travel to the core of the earth? Unless they already built the ship in real life
Snowpiercer… THEY HAVE FORGOT SNOWPIERCER
San Andreas holds the best CGI I've ever seen. However, there is one thing that makes me feel disappointed is that the movie uses the Richter Scale, which is absolutely obsolete in the real life, to measure large and devastating earthquakes instead of the Moment Magnitude Scale.
I believe that the director and the writer should have done more research or cooperated with seismologists to make their film more accurate.
She said Pee waves :3
Cool I didn’t know that there was a real flood in the Middle East
They forgot Dante's Peak.
The Perfect Storm is based off a true story right?
"At the very least, maybe the tsunami will put out some of the fires."
That's just Cities Skylines.
I’m not eating insects
Next : A Scientists react to Scientists who react Scientists in movies.
What would be true if humans called scientists to fact-check? They'll all say lies and fiction. Fools. Movies are creations, so they're fiction. They put false settings to make the audience more interesting!
I hope that the day I couldn't find anything better than Sharknado to watch never happens! Actually, I'll give the movie industry time to catch up before I ever watch that movie!
I wonder what would happen if we replaced current politians with scientists.
You know that scene with the birds in Trafalgar Square in The Core, one the birds you see flying through the window is a fish. Little joke probably added post.
"Hollywood's biggest disaster films" and cats isn't even on the list
The earth is just fine, we are fcked – George Carlin
God Bless everyone!!!! Jesus Loves you all very much!!!!
1:06
The closest thing you can get to a tsunami like that would be the tsunamis caused by the meteor that killed the dinosaurs.
There's no such thing as man made climate change.
3 Californians, not good.
The movie can be an exaggeration but never doubt the nature if it can make the mount everest and mariana trench it can do anything everything.
why would someone care?
18:15 why are they so fu king iconic i can‘t 💀💀
She said a wood house is the safest place to be in smhhh. She should go back to school. Is that were the case, the second little piggy wouldnt run to the brick house
the juxtaposition of sharknado (one of the most famously ridiculous and unrealistic movies of all time) between interstellar and perfect storm (both famously very scientifically accurate movies) is one of my favorite details about this video
I love watching disaster movies and I feel bad for these people because they will never enjoy such movies as much as I/we do. They're too smart.
These guys have great chemistry. They have all the aspects of a “perfect” friend group lol
Sharknado- no.
Bearvalanche- yes.
08:33 umm, this exact thing happened recently in Venezuela 🇻🇪
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