Could it happen??

[hattster]

I watched a film recently were the world was plunged into an ice age and the temperatures dropped so rapidly that people couldn't escape it it and it showed buildings freezing over and people freezing to death in an instance. It got me thinking, i know it was only a movie but was wondering if we were plunged into an ice age would the temps actually drop as rapid as the film suggests?? brr...i feel cold now.

[andy-hughes]

No, is the short answer. Even if the sun exploded, residual heat would give the earth's population time to assimilate the changing situation, and make at least some alternative arrangements.

That's not to suggest that an ice age would not be a catastrophe for the planet, but only to confirm that such a change would be much slower than this film suggested - but as is often the case, fact is far more boring and unexciting than fiction.

[hattster]

Cheers for that Andy.....i feel much better now, especially with this cold snap we are having LOL

[Tammera]

im assuming thats day after tomorrow? awsome film. ive spoken to people about this a few times. when that film was first in the cinema i watched it and watched it from a point a view as i did independance day, if that sort of thing does happen it wouldnt be in my lifetime at least. then in the short time that film came to video and i bought it and watched it again, with all the climate changes we have had i thought, hmm i could wholeheartedly expect seeing some of that in my lifetime (obviously less dramatic than the film) with the weather changes we have had in the last few years including england with the floods, tornados and the earthquakes (one shook my house a few years ago in nottingham) and with the hurricanes and tsunami the weather is changing and changing fast.

but as andy said if something like the ice age was to happen it would be foreseen reasonably early and i dont think the government would ignore it and would make fast plans to move people elsewhere and put people underground. i really dont think its something for people to worry about though.

[mata hari]

I know it's not directly to do with it, and I really thought "The Day after Tommorrow" was super, but did anyone else wonder where the smoke went to when they lit that big fire in the library fireplace?

Heaven forbid if we are plunged into another ice age, it's -9�c over here and I just cant get warm! Pperhaps this is where the dinasaurs

[mata hari]

sorry, pressed the wrong button (I was concocting a load of old codswallop anyway) I was going to suggest that perhaps the dinasaurs were all fluffy and furry, and were hunted for their skins lol, (of course I know that this would have been impossible!) happy new year!!

[sunnyside]

If you believe in God the Creator, you will know that we won't have an ice age like the film suggests. That's my comfort for ya.

[Clanad]

My only disagreement with andy is that, if the sun exploded (an impossibility, by the way) we would have precisely 8 minutes to bend over, put your head between your legs and kiss your posterior a quick goodby!