Are We Entering a New Ice Age? 13 Mar 1947. Nope; No second ice age is as yet in sight. They’ll say anything
Britain has been engaged in a deadly battle against the forces of “General Winter.” England and Europe have been in the grip of the most severe cold in living memory. With snow piled high in London’s streets and with recollections of the recent cold winters of 1939-40 and 1940-41 still fresh in their minds, people in Europe may well ask themselves whether they are in for another ice age such as the one from which their countries emerged barely ten or twelve thousand years ago.-By CT.
The present freeze-up is not the first, nor is it likely to be the last. History records periods of cold and heat, drought and rain, and the influence of weather and climate on the course of human history is greater than many of us are inclined to admit.
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Old people of all generations are convinced that the weather is not what it used to be; it has either become colder or warmer, drier or rainier. Sometimes, this impression may be purely psychological, due to extreme
colds or droughts having been experienced at an early impressive age.
On the other hand, we have seen that the climate does have its “ups” and “downs,” but of one thing we may
be certain; during the last twenty-five centuries there has been no overall change, no profound modification of climatic conditions towards a colder or warmer state.
No second ice age is as yet in sight, although just when Europe will be in for another long mild spell may be anybodys guess.