Now, let's try a little reality. He, like the mastodons, had food in his tummy, and he died in a snowstorm, not a superstorm. Miraculously, the atmosphere did not flip over. That's because it can't. Even high school freshmen know that there is very little convective admixing of air between the stratosphere and the troposphere.
Supercooled water is water that remains liquid but is below freezing.
Maybe supercooled air remains gaseous at temperatures below its liquefaction point, which isn't much above absolute zero. That speaks volumes about The Coming Global Superstorm and the culture that buys it. According to Nature magazine, University of Virginia environmental sciences professor Patrick J. Michaels is probably the nation's most popular lecturer on the subject of climate change. The Science and Politics of Global Warming. Return to May 2000 contents .