The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, December 1999. Order Now From Amazon.com.
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Source: New York Post
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Liz Smith from the New York Post
Forever Young
�NINETEEN NINETY-NINE was the most violent year in the modern history of weather. So was 1998. So was 1997. So was 1996. Anybody who glances at a weather report from time to time can see something extraordinary is happening."
So write Art Bell and Whitley Strieber in their new Pocket Books offering, "The Coming Global Superstorm," which arrived to give me something new to fret over at the very moment I was sighing in relief over no Y2K or terrorist havoc!
Forget Stephen King. Bell and Strieber have written the scariest tome ever. And they insist, convincingly, that it is not science fiction; it's something that could happen and probably is happening. The weather is going bad because of a change in ocean currents, temperature and flow, and this will soon release meteorological energy from global warming. Only the Earth won't grow warmer; storms unleashed by this phenomenon will sheathe a quarter of the Earth in ice and snow. Bell and Strieber say we are on the brink of a new ice age.
I picked up this book just as those New Year storms were savaging Europe, leaving almost 100 people dead. But those storms are only a drop in the bucket compared to what this book claims is in store for us unless we get busy and do something about it.
The "superstorms" described here will offer sustained winds of 100 mph, with death rates approaching 100 percent for everything at the interior of these storms. Flooding will even bring down the skyscrapers of Manhattan. Large mammals such as polar bears will move down from the north and be buried alive under mountains of falling snow. Electrical grids all over the world will fail and Western civilization as we know it will cease to exist. Many creatures will become extinct, and many cities simply will disappear.
It's always something, isn't it? And you thought gossip was all you had to worry about.
