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To: i-node who wrote (542728)	1/10/2010 10:48:06 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575146

"Did anyone accurately predict that Global Warming was going to become Global Cooling, and the date on which it would happen, using Chaos Theory? What is the value of it if you can't do that?" Yes: amazon.com "Starred Review. Earth continues its relentless plunge toward environmental collapse in Robinson's well-done if intensely didactic follow-up to Forty Signs of Rain (2004). As a result of global warming, the Gulf Stream has stalled, and when winter comes, impossibly frigid temperatures hit the Eastern Seaboard and Western Europe. As people starve, multinational corporations explore ways of making a profit from the disaster. When Antarctica's ice shelves collapse, low-lying island nations quite literally slip beneath the rising waters. In Washington, D.C., clear-sighted scientists must overcome government inertia and stupidity to put into effect policies that may begin to salvage the situation. An enormous fleet of ships is dispatched to the North Atlantic to dump millions of tons of salt into the ocean in the hope of restarting the Gulf Stream. This ecological disaster tale is guaranteed to anger political and economic conservatives of every stripe, but it provides perhaps the most realistic portrayal ever created of the environmental changes that are already occurring on our planet. It should be required reading for anyone concerned about our world's future. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition."

To: i-node who wrote (542728)	1/11/2010 5:52:12 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575146

Have you or anyone else predicted when Global Cooling will end and become Global Warming again? Global Warming at least become Climate Change, most likely without the need to apply Chaos Theory. The UK has a Minister for Climate Change. While less busy with the Global Warming, my guess is that right now he may be extremely busy with the Global Cooling in the UK department. /Taro