The sixth winter

[loreta]

I am so sorry that you don't like the book because I recommended it. When I read the book, long time ago, I like it. I'm still waiting for the book from Amazon.UK.

Loreta

 

[Laura]

I am so sorry that you don't like the book because I recommended it. When I read the book, long time ago, I like it. I'm still waiting for the book from Amazon.UK.

Loreta

Not liking the book doesn't detract from the fact that a couple of useful concepts were there! The basic idea of "The Sixth Winter" - that is, if there are six very bad winters, an ice age starts, and the meanderings of the jet stream and the "dancers" are very useful. I realize now that the "papers" included in the book as scientific speculations are the total sum and substance of the science within.

The idea of the dancers is interesting due to the suggestion that this could be a mechanism by which the mammoths in Siberia were flash frozen. It's not too crazy an idea, either. But I think it is more than just an "ice tornado," but is rather more like the "global superstorm" idea as depicted in "Day After Tomorrow." It seems that this movie (and Streiber's book) are amalgamations of this idea along with the better science in "Mother of Storms." Of course, both of them try to contain the causative elements to strictly earth-bound events, excluding cosmic factors.

 

[Devar]

Not to say I didn't like it at all, I kinda got into it as I read it on an airplane trip with some crazy aircon going so it felt quite winterish, really put me in the book! :P

I wonder what winter "this" one would be (I say "this" as it is summer here in the Southern Hemisphere) as defined by the book. The last few winters in the Northern Hemisphere have been worse than the last. Winter three? Four?

I think of this as it's March and I read that there are still record snowfalls being set!

How many more winters in the north until all the snow doesn't melt over summer in time for the next winter (Increasing albedo)?