Wouldn’t all the people who had gas fireplaces or gas stoves and enclosed a small enough place to be kept adequately warm survived? Camping equipment would have worked too.
Domestic natural gas lines are pressurized. Compressors are needed to keep the gas flowing. My MSRs, Sveas, Optimuses, and Colemans would keep us warm. I would cut down my neighbour’s trees for the fireplace, siphon their fuel from vehicles and heating oil tanks. My biggest fear would be getting cut off from a source of Lactaid skim milk.
So it would seem. The sudden, flesh-freezing weather system was portrayed as a passing phenomenon, like a tornado. If the people holed up in the library were able to create a den for weathering that moment, then why weren’t the guys in the Scottish weather outpost station able to do something similar?
Folks survive Mt. Washington winter weather every year, it’s not so tough to do. Hard to beat Mt. Washington for extreme weather, Denali is pretty bad sometimes.
Any day I was holed up with Emmy Rossum would be a good day. Anyone who can sing the way she did in Phantom AND Songcatcher is okay in my book.
Oh, I remember that movie. Eh…kinda left me cold.
By the time abrupt climate change can occur all the actors in the movie will be long past their prime, that’s why I didn’t find it very realistic.
Thanks for clarifying my cloudiness about this movie. They really only needed super heating during the super coldness. After that, normal heating would be sufficient. Maybe the weather outpost didn’t have super heating potential. I am not sure what an antiquated fireplace in a New York City library would have that would permit superheating since most of the heat goes up the chimney.
Not if it’s a Rumford. Been around since the 1790s.
Yeah, there’s that…I was hoping instead for a “Ba-DUMP chaaaa” rimshot thingy. But, waddayagonnadoo. 
Anyway, along your lines I recall a review of TDAT that said, " a great movie and lousy science." I didn’t worry too much about that, because when it comes to any flick I expect as a matter of course to have to suspend incredulity and try to ignore inaccuracy when I’m aware of it. For me, with movies the former is generally easier than the latter, though, I’m afraid.
so then i shouldn’t ponder the possibilities of Avatar too much?
No, per your wording I would never say such a thing. Isn’t it from dreams and intuition that leaps in culture, technology, and science are born, as much as advances come from sheer plod? 
Probably would wind up being the modern high-efficiency fireplaces would fill up with snow and freeze over but the old fashioned wasteful system will send enough heat out to keep the chimney clear.
Weren’t the Scottish guys caught off guard? Like, when the tornado of ultimate coldness descended upon them, and they discovered how cold ultimate coldness really was, it was already too late?
The Izzlets love to watch that movie when it’s particularly hot day in the summer. I think watching people freeze to death cools them down, or something. 
Seeing anything that reminds me of home would warm the cockles of my heart.
I don’t think so. They sat around wryly discussing their upcoming fate, the one regretting how he’d miss seeing his baby grow up. Then they opened the rare bottle of booze they’d stashed. I think they could have created some sort of fortification and a fire. I would have.
Some things are just too much bother to be rushing around in a state of panic. I would have promised everyone a nice Clam Chowder if they did all the work lickedty-split.
Hmm…you could be right. I haven’t watched it in a while. I will say, that despite it’s possible use as an accelerant, I would have drank the booze too. But someone HAD to have at least matches. Or a lighter. Or something. They could have burned all their books.
I want to talk about the evil frost menace that tried to take over the library. It looked almost X Files-esque. If I had seen that stuff coming under my door, it would have scared the bejeezus out of me.