Return of the Storm

It's beginning to look like the long quiet period of the sun last year is over.

So perhaps we escape the initiation of another Ice Age this solar cycle. Perhaps what's been keeping us out of another Ice Age- and what took us out of the Little Ice Age- are the very carbon emissions that endanger the Poles.

The CO₂ pollution that would turn Florida into Atlantis and drown the coastal cities of the world may be all that keeps Manhattan from being buried under a kilometer of glacial ice and the North Polar ice cap from extending all the way to the Ohio river.

Or maybe not. Still, Winter fades, and it's nice water is occasionally a liquid again.