File Under: Global Atmospheric Change

This feels like an out-take from the beginning of The Day After Tomorrow. Once again, nobody seems to have anything conclusive to offer. Theories competing with theories, but nobody knows for sure. Portent-of-doom paragraphs:


Instead, Wickwar’s explanation is that a vertical atmospheric wave discovered in their LIDAR data lowered the temperature in the region above their radar installation near Logan, Utah. But then you have to ask, he noted, “Where’d the wave come from?”

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The recent observations of noctilucent clouds at all kinds of latitudes provide an extra impetus to understand what is going on up there. Changes are occurring faster than scientists can understand their causes. “I suspect, as many of us feel, that it is global change, but I fear we don’t understand it,” Wickwar said. “It’s not as simple as a temperature change.”

My gut says "Uh-oh.."