Weather Change
"As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several
years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly
contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval
However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when
meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the
atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the Past three decades.  The trend
shows no indication of reversing.  Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly
apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of
another ICE AGE.

Telletale signs are everywhere - from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack
ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature
like the armadillo from the Midwest.  Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has
dropped about  2.7 deg F.  Although that figure is at best an estimate, it is supported by
other convincing data.  When Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University's
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and his  wife Helena analyzed satelite weather
data for the Northern Hemisphere, they found that the area of the ice and snow cover
had suddenly incresed  by 12% in 1971 and the increase has persisted ever since. Areas
of Baffin island in the Canadian Arctic, for example, were once  totally free of any snow in
summer; now they are covered year around."

If this sounds a little unusual, given the current GLOBAL WARMING craze - - that's only
because of date.  These two paragraphs were printed in TIME magazine, June 24, 1974!
It goes on to blame global cooling for an increase in tornados.  Seems like any weather
change causes tornados.

But, we can take courage from the fact that the Earth did not freeze up!  Just
like it is not going to burn up - - unless, GOD has decided he is fed up with these
two-legged creatures and is going to cook them!

Marv