THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW
June 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLWORRIED about the onset of an Ice Age in one week, following the switching-off of the North Atlantic Current, a la recent Hollywood blockbuster the Day After Tomorrow? Well kick back, and don't worry. It's not going to happen, says the European Environment Agency (EEA). "There is scientific agreement that the probability of a Gulf Stream switch-off and a substantial cooling in the Northern Hemisphere in the next hundred years and beyond are extremely low, since ongoing global warming would offset regional cooling", says the agency. However, there ...
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