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Thread ID: 135980 2014-01-05 23:51:00 Polar Blast / vortex in USA beetle (243) PC World Chat
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1364379 2014-01-05 23:51:00 This feels a bit sureal....... reminds me of the movie The Day after Tomorrow ? i think its called.

hope its not as bad as predicted...........

Is Surfer Joe in the bad Zone ? any one heard from him lately?

:(
beetle (243)
1364380 2014-01-06 00:05:00 Isn't Surfer Joe in Montana? If so, then he will be affected by this weather.

Haven't seen him around the forum in ages.
Jen (38)
1364381 2014-01-06 00:48:00 Global warming strikes again :) CliveM (6007)
1364382 2014-01-06 00:55:00 Yup that was a good movie and potentially quite accurate. Webdevguy (17166)
1364383 2014-01-06 02:09:00 Weather has always been variable and there have been extremes.
We just hear about it more now - and think it's more common now. Look up the little Ice Age...
pctek (84)
1364384 2014-01-06 02:59:00 Weather has always been variable and there have been extremes.
We just hear about it more now - and think it's more common now. Look up the little Ice Age...

The catch is that now we are having winter and summer extremes more regularly and they are more extreme.
Webdevguy (17166)
1364385 2014-01-06 03:20:00 Daughter in West Virginia is getting heavy snow as I type this, and is getting prepared for big freeze over next few days. They are expecting around -14° C tomorrow!

LL
lakewoodlady (103)
1364386 2014-01-06 05:36:00 Yup that was a good movie and potentially quite accurate.

Saw a science program about 6 months after the movie came out and basically debunked the whole story line as it was shown in the movie..
paulw (1826)
1364387 2014-01-06 05:44:00 Saw a science program about 6 months after the movie came out and basically debunked the whole story line as it was shown in the movie..

Yes in the move the next ice age came on in about 2 days.

they actually take about 10,000 years or so.

And weather can only get worse it cant be nice all the time.

And yes I hope all the global warming experts are watching the USA right now. (Oh thats right its climate change now)

Or are they all on that island in the pacific waiting for the water to rise?
Digby (677)
1364388 2014-01-06 06:23:00 Latest thinking is that a flip into permanent ice-age could take as little as 25 to 100 years not thousands of years.

So the idea is that the losses in the system (so-called global warming) result in increasing weather extremes and then in the end as the feedback loops lose control and move from nice smooth sin wave changes into square wave extremes then the poles and the equatorial regions stop sharing temperatures and the poles get colder and the equatorial regions get much hotter until we have a fully fledged ice age in the Northern hemisphere and I'm not sure what happens in the South but judging from what I have seen along the road on the journey to Arthur's Pass there has been significant glaciation here in the South Island at some time in the past.
zqwerty (97)
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