I called Nikon and used some of my female charm and found out that we will all want to keep the manual to this awesome Nikon close at hand. It will have a special section with instruction to piece the pages together to make a tent to protect a family of 10 from all, that's right, it says ALL weather elements! And will be able to provide separate sleeping rooms for every 2 people. They claim the manual will be the first one with easy instructions, even an engineer as young as 10 years old will be able to understand it. And to sweeten the deal they are providing a reinforced backpack(s) for the manual and they are going to be released them early for the latest cameras manuals that are out now!!!

A while back, we were discussing SD cards and their limits. Pounder35 jokingly suggested a high-temp camera and cards with limits in the 150F range. I did some digging and questioned a friend who works for Nikon. He finally agreed to give me details of a Global Warming camera they have in development. Nikon designed this camera to survive extremes of temperature and severe storm conditions. It should be released within a year, and it will be available even to those people who do not believe in GW. Below are the specs, so far. Please keep this a secret because no one is supposed to know about it.

Rated -50F to 150F, using special SD cards with same rating
Dual batteries, with a hand crank to recharge batteries in an emergency. Can operate off a 12v car battery
Non-removable 15-500mm VR IV AF-S lens to prevent the entry of dirt during lens changes
Inner workings separated from the outer body by rubber cushioning
Special coating on body to resist damage from wind-blown abrasives
Anti-abrasion coating on lens
Seals developed by NASA to prevent water from being blown in by 100 mph winds
Submersible to 100 feet
Built-in airbag so that if the camera is dropped during storm conditions, it will have a gentle landing. G-sensor built into the camera will detect a free fall and activate the airbag.
Six-way heavy duty carry strap that will keep the camera attached to the user. This strap can also be used as a lifting harness to hoist the photographer into a helicopter.
Personal Emergency Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) that will help responders locate the photographer in an emergency
Electronic ID included in the body of the camera so that if the photographer is unconscious, his camera will have his medical records to assist medical personnel. Should the photographer not survive, his camera will be able to identify him.
NOAA weather receiver
Built-in LED lighting
LED backlight can be used to watch movies on the LCD.
Internal storage capacity for five full-length movies
MP3 player
The camera will be upgraded every eighteen months as weather conditions worsen.
Model name: DGW-1000. No pictures available.

If you contact Nikon about this camera, they will deny any knowledge of it.

Unfortunately, December 21, 2012 is less than 5 months away. In typical corporate fashion, Nikon will be late to market in hopes of building market anticipation and high initial sales figures to boast about. There will be nobody left to sell it to except those few who built luxury condos in the bottoms of 12/20/12-sealed Atlas missile silos around the U.S.

But even for them, there won't be an Adorama Online or B&H to order the Nikon from - nor an Internet! All the local Mom & Pop camera stores will be leveled to the ground with their "our retail price" signs covered with volcanic ash and seabed sludge (congrats online companies - they're finally gone!). UPS trucks will be burnt charcoal black instead of diarrhea brown and their drivers eaten by world dominating rogue cock roaches and fire ants that weren't destroyed in the catastrophic events.

New York City and Mayor Intrusive Bigmouth Bloomberg will be under 1 mile of sea water while glistening Atlantis becomes high and dry upon a mountain top (awesome photo opportunity but nobody around to shoot it - neither a hopeful amateur with a T3i nor an aloof professional with an overly-expensive 50MP something with a $5K lens on it).

Sony didn't built a competitive model yet, only the shock-proof sensor for Nikon's model, because they produced the movie "2012" and know about the potential catastrophic events. They will, as usual, wait until their competitors either live or die with their models, then enter the marketplace in late Spring 2013 (from deep within their underground bunkers built right after WWII) to bulk advertise their way to dominance - if a marketplace or their Chinese manufacturing plants still exist.