With all the recent attention being given to the topic of global warming, very little attention is being given to something that in the long run may be even more serious to plant and animal life on Planet Earth. And that warning is the exact opposite of global cooling.
Global cooling? With the earth’s arctic (and Antarctic) ice caps, glaciers, and snow caps on mountain ranges melting at an unbelievably fast pace, who would even consider an adverse phenomenon as global cooling? It now appears that a growing number of scientific researchers are saying just that; with theories and data to back up their beliefs that the present, largely man-made global climate changes will soon begin to reverse themselves and result in much colder winters, shorter spring and summer growing seasons, and even a possible ice age.
Although higher temperatures have recently in many parts of the world, even much lower winter temperatures are coming to light in many countries such as China, South Africa, Greece, Argentina, and many parts of the USA, including southern states like Texas. For the past few years now, severe winter storms have hit many parts of the U.S.A., some of which have caused many deaths and widespread property damage. These storms often referred to as “blue northerns”, have arrived as early as mid October, and as later as March or even April! Many parts of Europe have also been hit with similar storms with heavy snow falling in London in early April. China recently experienced winter ice and snow storms so severe that more than two thirds of this nation of 1.3 billion people was brought to a virtual standstill.
It doesn’t take much of a global cooling trend to cause these types of weather changes to occur. Meteorologists and other scientists studying global climate changes say that a very small drop in world temperature of between 0.60 – 0.80 Celsius (4-6 degrees Fahrenheit) is enough to greatly affect world weather patterns. What causes this to happen, is a combination of many factors, including increases in sunspots and other changes in our only source of extraterrestrial heat, the sun. Volcanic activity, forest fires, and other phenomenon, including great increases of dust and other particles in the atmosphere, lessen the effectiveness of the sun’s warming rays.
Whether these changes will result in another ice age or “mini ice age” (as occurred about 400 years ago) is still not completely certain. But recent sci-fi thriller movies, including one entitled “The Day After Tomorrow” are based on these theories that this kind of severe climate reversal could very well happen. In the so called “mini-ice age” of the 1,600’s, the harbor around the New World Dutch colony of New Amsterdam (New York) was frozen over, and wolves were common in the streets of Paris.
All it takes are some reverse direction in ocean currents, and other changes as previously mentioned to cause the earth to turn colder and create a dire danger to human life that all of Man’s technological advances will not be able to counter-act.
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