h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, there's a shrot answer and a long answer.

The short answer is: No

The long answer is: I'm not likely to know for sure for quite some time, as I am (as you've probably guessed) stark raving bonkers, and not likely to return to sanity before the next Ice Age.

Have you seen "The Day After Tomorrow"? You'll be sane within a week.

Only if the movie turns out to be true. Not that any of us will be around to gloat. If New York gets inundated by a massive tidal wave driven by the storm as it comes down from the North, then Boston will be drowned first.

My father, who used to be a meteorologist for the government, says that the movie describes an impossibility. Storms do not pull super-cold air out of the Ionosphere and bring it down to earth. Rather, they take surface air and pump it up to the upper atmosphere. I hope my father is right.

I just saw a huge, bright double rainbow out my front window, does that count? It stretched across the sky in a huge arch with a thick violet band between the two bows. I stood watching it until it finally faded away.

Meteorology has always been one of my favorite subjects ... fascinating! Science is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

There will still be rainbows after the ice age starts, but there'll be far fewer people to see them.

One theory about ice ages is that they become more prevalent as the world's landmasses get higher in average altitude. When the dinosaurs ruled the earth, the continets were fairly low, and there were a lot of shallow seas. So, very few ice ages.

The Rockies and the Himalayas and the Alps came along, and the continents are, on average, 2,000 feet higher then they were 30 or 40 million years ago. Ice ages have become very prevalent. The Himalayas block warm tropical air from blowing into Russia and warming up Siberia.