About a year ago, I watched "The Blob" (the original 1958 version) via Netflix. As you're probably aware, it deals with an alien lifeform coming to Earth, a little blob of goo that assimilates human beings into its body and grows, eventually getting large enough to engulf a diner where Steve McQueen is hiding. My favorite moment came at the end of The Blob, when they discover that the blob doesn't like cold. So they spray it with CO2 fire extinguishers & freeze it. Then the Air Force comes in and air-lifts it up to "the Arctic." The police chief character says to Steve McQueen: "At least we've got it stopped." And McQueen replies, I kid you not: "As long as the Arctic stays cold." Oh, Steve, if only you knew! Looks like we've got one more hazard that climate change is going to unleash...

Labels: climate change, global warming, movies