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[gothwalk]

Here's an an article about global climate. It argues that contrary to the majority opinion, there is in fact no global warming, and that we're about to start the slide into a Little Ice Age, bottoming out around 2030. It's well written, and fairly convincing in and of itself, although it's not for the faint-hearted, containing sentences like "Two consecutive negative extrema transgressing the threshold indicate grand minima of the Maunder minimum type, whereas a single extremum below the threshold goes along with an event of the Dalton minimum type.".

What I'm finding interesting is that either way, Little Ice Age, or global warming leading to the Gulf Stream shutting down, Europe seems to be in for some cold times. I'm not getting my hopes up, though - my bet is that the global warming (which I do think exists) will counter the effects of the cyclical minima, leaving us with pretty ordinary weather, barring the odd storm.

But it'd be nice to have real winters in Ireland.

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A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
James Joyce, "The Dead"