Episode Detail: Hot Planet---Cold Comfort - Scientific American Frontiers
“Hot Planet, Cold Comfort” examines the paradoxical possibility that global warming could lead to plunging temperatures. The program also explores glaciers in Alaska and Siberia's Lena River, and charts cooling “events” in the last 12,000 years, including the “little ice age” that kept Europe and North America cool in the 17th and 18th centuries.
