It is an odd and chilling feeling to see Hurricane Sandy called a superstorm. It’s going to go down in history as Superstorm Sandy.
I didn’t coin the word ‘superstorm’ but the Coming Global Superstorm, certainly brought it into the language. And the movie based on it, the Day After Tomorrow, fixed the idea of such storms in the public imagination.
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The UK is experiencing weird weather too–in fact, that country has experienced its "weirdest" weather on record in the past few months, scientists say. The driest spring for over a century led to the wettest April, May and June ever recorded. This could be the start of periodic wings of alternating droughts and flooding–here in the US too?
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6.5 million people in the Northeast US are without power, including all of Manhattan below 39th Street. Nuclear power plants in the region are on alert because of the danger that they may lose outside power supplies, or their water exchange systems may be flooded. The power plants rely on diesel generators for backup power. Outside power is essential to the continued functioning of their cooling pumps.
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Given the news in this week’s Climate Watch, it seems to us like a good time to provide free for Unknowncountry.com subscribers the classic Coming Global Superstorm read by Whitley Strieber and Art Bell. It is worth noting at this point that, despite the jeering that Whitley and Art took during their author tour in 1999, NOT ONE prediction in Superstorm has been shown to be wrong, and the word ‘superstorm’ has now entered the scientific vocabulary as paleoclimatologists have discovered one situation after another where climate change has been abrupt, violent and long-lasting. As difficult as the future it predicts is, Superstorm is also a story of human strength in the face of great change–and that, also, is part of its predictive value.read more