Peter Stenning (Edward Judd) in the newsroom of the Daily Express in Val Guest’s 1961 film, “The Day the Earth Caught Fire”. Stenning and Bill McGuire (Leo McKern), the science editor of the Express, investigate the disastrous consequences of US and USSR strategic experiments. The images of London straining under severe weather disruption are stunning.

The Independent’s Cahal Milmo wrote today that Prof Phil Jones of the Climate Research Unit at UEA is predicting that 2007 will be the warmest year on record. The combination of global warming and the El Niño weather system are poised to combine their effects this year. Prof Jones said,

El Niño makes the world warmer and we already have a warming trend that is increasing global temperatures by one to two tenths of a degrees celsius per decade. Together, they should make 2007 warmer than last year and it may even make the next 12 months the warmest year on record.

“The Day the Earth Caught Fire” was picked out as a neglected classic in one of the Independent’s holiday supplements.

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