• It’s getting colder

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the last decade, the Arctic ice and snow cap has expanded 12 per cent, and for the first time in this century, ships making for Iceland ports have been impeded by drifting ice.

In England, the average growing season is a week shorter than in 1950, and in the United States, the warm-blooded armadillo is retreating from the Midwest to the South.

In Africa, the Sahara is creeping southward and six years of drought in the Sahel region have only recently been interrupted by rain.

In the U.S., corn crops fell off last year because of a freakish combination of excess spring rains and summer drought: Great floods ruined the Bangladesh harvest: Drought ravaged large parts of India.

Many climatologists see these signs as evidence that a significant shift in climate is taking place — a shift that could be the forerunning ef an Ice Age like that which gripped much of the Northern Hemisphere before retreating 10,000 years ago.

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No scientist is forecasting a full-scale Ice Age soon, but some predict that in a few decades there might be little ice ages like the ones which plagued Europe with severe winters from 1430 to 1850.

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Source: Associated Press (Chicago Tribune)