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This is just too funny! I just read this 1987 geology paper on glacial deposits around Calgary. These are the concluding remarks:
"Following the end of the last ice age [10,000 yrs ago], the climate of the northern hemisphhere continued to warm until about 6000 to 7000 years ago WHEN IT REACHED A PEAK. Since that time, the climate has been generally COOLING. The 1700s and 1800s .D. were marked by a cool climate period which is known as the "Little Ice Age".... .... However, people everywhere should realize that the past 100 years have seen some of the MOST FAVOURABLE WEATHER to be experienced during the past millenium. This weather has created bountiful harvests and has in part permitted the human race to increase its numbers to unprecendented totals. A repeat of the "LITTLE ICE AGE" could cause crop failures which might precipitate massive famines.... This eventuality, in the short term, and not the possibility of another ice age in the dim future, should capture our concern and be a factor in our management of our natural resources and our own number"
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From: The Quarternary History of the Calgary Area. Published in 1987 by the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists in a booklet titled "Geology of the Calgary Area" The author: L.E. Jackson Jr. of the Geological Survey of Canada and of the Institute for Quarternary Research, Simon Fraser University.
"Following the end of the last ice age [10,000 yrs ago], the climate of the northern hemisphhere continued to warm until about 6000 to 7000 years ago WHEN IT REACHED A PEAK. Since that time, the climate has been generally COOLING. The 1700s and 1800s .D. were marked by a cool climate period which is known as the "Little Ice Age".... .... However, people everywhere should realize that the past 100 years have seen some of the MOST FAVOURABLE WEATHER to be experienced during the past millenium. This weather has created bountiful harvests and has in part permitted the human race to increase its numbers to unprecendented totals. A repeat of the "LITTLE ICE AGE" could cause crop failures which might precipitate massive famines.... This eventuality, in the short term, and not the possibility of another ice age in the dim future, should capture our concern and be a factor in our management of our natural resources and our own number"
DON`T You love it?
From: The Quarternary History of the Calgary Area. Published in 1987 by the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists in a booklet titled "Geology of the Calgary Area" The author: L.E. Jackson Jr. of the Geological Survey of Canada and of the Institute for Quarternary Research, Simon Fraser University.