2007 saw the greatest single drop in temperature in recorded history

Scientist who study climate change have now come up with a new prognosis for the future of our planet:  2007 saw the greatest single drop in temperature in recorded history.  The ice age which had been receding for the last few centuries seems to be returning.

Global Cooling is a serious problem.  The last time our planet suffered from global cooling, there was also a troubling increase in crop failures, disease and the decline of habitable areas (Greenland and Iceland, for example, had much more vegetation and warmth.)

It is difficult to say if mankind can stop global cooling, but it is not difficult to say what the reaction of policymakers around the world should be to this newest and real natural threat.  Governments should encourage the mining of coal, the drilling for oil, increasing industrial activity, more vehicles on the highways and the introduction of heat-retaining chemical compounds in our atmosphere.

Unlike the mythical global warming, mankind’s ingenuity has given him the tools to deal with global cooling – if we act in time.  Invention has often been a human response to cold and its effects.  Indeed, human progress has largely been a response to the challenges of nature in general.  Often – the vast majority of the time – this has been futile.  Mankind cannot stop volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis.  But sometimes, if we are prescient like the Medieval Dutch, we can hold back the sea and win quiet victories against our enemy, nature.