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A New Ice Age?
barakn writes "Scientists have savaged the new movie The Day After Tomorrow, which depicts global warming causing a new ice age and freezing New York solid. The movie follows on the heels of a report to the Department of Defense in February, written by two guys who are not climatologists, about the implications of global warming triggering the growth of ice sheets in the northern hemisphere. There is a plausible theory which suggests that melting ice may release enough fresh water to halt circulation of warm water from the Gulf Stream, thus significantly cooling Europe and the east coast of North America. Note that this theory depends on melting ice, not growing ice, which may be one reason scientists find the ice age scenario so hard to swallow. New satellite evidence suggests a part of this circulation may already be slowing down. Those on the North American west coast will not have to worry about ice sheets, but changes in Arctic ice could mean the western drought will be permanent. For those of you who would rather do something before it's too late, iron seems to work, but the long-term ecological implications are still unknown."
Wait... so you're telling me that a movie writer is being loose with the truth?
What is the world coming to!?
There will be no need for the upcoming 2Kg heatsinks.
Did they touch God or did they touch the Sun?
Next you'll be telling me that Jurrasic Park, Armageddon, etc. are based on junk science!
So climate's changing. So what? It has always changed. The big news would be if it wasn't changing. - Dr. Philip Stone
I personally was unaware we'd been tracking the earth's temperature for 5 billion years.
Thanks for enlightening me.
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I was hoping for global warming! I already had ordered a few 100.000s tonnes of pearly white sand to make some lovely beaches in soon-to-be-sunny Greenland... Damn it!
Hate me!
Could the person who modded parent informative please translate it into English? (Spanish or French will do, I'm not too fussy).
Nature probably thinks we are spyware or something, and figures the only way to fix the problem is to do a "cold boot"...
The real problem these movies point out is the shocking rise in bad acting. Apparently something in the future (possibly estrogen-like toxins?) is destroying humanity's ability to emote properly. This is what scientists should be studying. At the rate it is occurring, bad acting could sweep the planet in just a few decades. This could have a profound impact on Broadway, Shakespeare festivals, and even school plays.
So if we fill the Irish Sea with them, Manchester will finally have nice weather...
But _The Day After Tomorrow_ is by the director of Independence Day -- how could it be anything but a quality picture?
I object to that article, and to the next reply.
10% of zero hours of sunshine is still zero hours :-P
As hard as it can be to find a scientist to tell the truth about something, it's even harder to find two scientists who agree on it.
So long as there are at least two people on the planet calling themselves scientists, there will be disagreement over a significant portion of what we call "facts".
Here's a fact you can take to the bank. "Green" scientists were arguing for Hitler to stop the V2 launches because their exhaust would louse up the ozone and bring an end to the planet. It never happened, Jack.
...their servers froze
Table-ized A.I.
"So if we fill the Irish Sea with them, Manchester will finally have nice weather..."
Wouldn't it be easier to just kill the last male Bundy?
"Derp de derp."
OTOH they are scandanavians.