The Blog from the Core - New Movie Wreaks Havoc on Science

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		The Weblog at The View from the Core - Thu. 05/27/04 09:08:18 PM


		New Movie Wreaks Havoc on Science Is anybody surprised? Patrick Michaels looks at The Day After Tomorrow at USA Today (yes, USA Today) the day before the day before yesterday: .... Oh, the plot. Global warming causes the Gulf Stream to shut down. This current normally brings tropical warmth northward and makes Europe much more comfortable than it should be at its northerly latitude. The heat stays stuck in the tropics, the polar regions get colder, and the atmosphere suddenly flips over in a "superstorm." The frigid stratosphere trades places with our habitable troposphere, and in a matter of days, an ice age ensues. Temperatures drop 100 degrees an hour in Canada. Hurricanes ravage Belfast. Folks in Japan are clobbered by bowling-ball-size hailstones. If we had only listened to concerned scientists and stopped global warming when we could. Each one of these phenomena is physically impossible.... (Thanks, Big Trunk.) Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 05/27/04 09:08:18 PM Categorized as Media.

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