Scientists ridicule ice age claims

[DesertFox]

Climate scientists have been stirred to ridicule claims in an upcoming Hollywood blockbuster that global warming could trigger a new ice age, a scenario also put forward in a controversial report to the US military.

The $125-million epic, The Day After Tomorrow, opens worldwide in May. It will show Manhattan frozen solid after the warm ocean current known as the Gulf Stream shuts down.

The movie's release will come soon after a report to the US Department of Defense (DoD) in February predicting that such a shutdown could put the northern hemisphere into a deep freeze and trigger global famine within 15 years.

But in the journal Science on Thursday, Andrew Weaver of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, surveys the current research and concludes "it is safe to say that global warming will not lead to the onset of a new ice age".

More (http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994888)

[DesertFox]

Shiver me timbers.

[Chap]

I getting out my extra layers now!!!!!!
O my gosh....we're all gonna die!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tacitus]

Freezing Manhattan into a solid block of ice isn't a bad outcome. It would be better to freeze all the blue states into a solid block of ice, after the conservatives left.

[DesertFox]

Actually, the conservatives would hang around to erect ski lifts and build snow men. The liberals are yella; they'd all flee to Arizona and Florida and and California and then go back to ski after the conservatives had all the dangerous stuff done.