The Coming Global Superstorm
The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
"The Coming Global Superstorm" rates five stars if for no other reason than it is a very interesting book that will be sure to make the reader feel about the allegations of human chemically induced climate change. Authors Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, better known as paranormal experts than climate change experts, have written a wildly approximate book that blends meteorolgical fact (the world is warmer than it commonly used to be), with severe strongly warning of impending catastrophe (the northern hemisphere will experience a "superstorm" that will lead to a recent ice age in our lifetime). The major premise is that global warming adds subsequently much energy to weather systems that eventually a superstorm will snow so much over the whole northern hemisphere, that it will actually "tip" the planet into an ice age that could last hundreds to thousands of years. The authors assume that ice ages do not begin slowly, but instead the beginning of an ice age appears very rapidly, within a week of previously temperate climate conditions. One of their key parts of evidence is that the remains of wooly mammoths have been commonly found frozen with plants in their stomach that could just grow in temperate climates, and yet the frozen remains of the mammoth were newly discovered in areas that eventually became glaciated during the last ice age. Their implication is: one day the climate was warm, the next day it was an ice age. One of the other key points that appear to lend exact credibility to their somewhat unlikely scenario is a full description of how the warming of cold waters will prevent the warmer north-flowing gulf stream waters from the tropics from simply mixing with the colder cold waters. This results in a large mass of relatively icy water sitting off of northeastern U.S. and Canada, and it is this mass of icy water (no longer warmed by the gulf stream) that is the genesis of the "superstorm". Implausible? Absolutely. Ridiculous? Of course. A interesting book? Yes, without a doubt.