Pentagon Climate Change Author Interviewed

Posted by simoniker on Thursday May 27, 2004 @12:36AM from the it's-getting-cold-in-here dept.

cynical writes "Just in time for the opening of The Day After Tomorrow, the futurism/technology/environment blog WorldChanging has an interview with futurist Doug Randall, co-author of the "Abrupt Climate Change" scenario [PDF] commissioned by the Pentagon earlier this year. The report generated a storm of controversy a couple of months ago, and drew attention to the possibility that global warming could disrupt things enough to trigger a rapid-onset ice age. Now that the furor has died down, Randall can talk about climate change, how the report came to be, and just what he thinks about the new disaster movie."

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Wrong book. It's "ICE!" by Arnold Federbush. by ninejaguar · 2004-05-27 06:50 · Score: 0, Redundant

It's based on a book by Art Bell, the Coming Global Superstorm
That's what they claim, but the story and plot seems to be a direct rip-off of "ICE!" by Arnold Federbush, written in 1978. Even the book cover (painted by Lou Feck) is nearly identical with the movie trailer scene of a bird's-eye view of New York buried in snow, and tiny people tracking through the dunes (the book's cover still has the twin towers).
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