I didn’t know this.

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“Enjoyed the column, but there is one thing you should know – maybe as a follow-on.

The book that inspired the movie is The Coming Global Superstorm, by Art Bell and the Communion alien visitor guy – forget his name, too lazy to look it up.

They have explicitly disavowed the premise of the movie, that global warming will cause an ice age. Their view is that there are global fluctuations that happen, and we may be overdue for a series of superstorms and a subsequent ice age, but that is something that happens from time to time. The movie maker, Emmerich, added the global warming stuff.

I didn’t read their book – they are kind of nutty guys – but I heard them being interviewed on the radio.”