Global cooling

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It is not often that residents of Mumbai get an opportunity to wear their woollies or show off their pashmina shawls. Mumbai’s winter is a bit of a joke, over before it begins, with little more to show than a nip in the air for a few days. But this year has been different, very different.

Not only here, but all over India, even the world, winter is showing an unusually sharp bite this time round. In Mumbai, plunging temperatures have been at the lowest in nearly 40 years.
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Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It erroneously led many to believe that henceforward there would be no winters to speak of. To disprove it as it were, winter has struck back with vengeance.

Is this a freak winter, or an early sign of an impending ice age? Though influential scientific opinion favours the theory of rising temperatures due to greenhouse gas emissions of the reckless lifestyle of the last century and more, there is a scientific minority putting forward the thesis that it is time for an ice age to return — warm interludes usually last for about 10,000 to 15,000 years.
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Whatever the truth and implications of the big questions and big answers, we are left to cope with the cold that creates unbearable conditions, especially for the poor. The authorities are usually unprepared to deal with the plight of the poor, especially the homeless because there are no night-shelters, and the idea of a soup kitchen is almost non-existent.