UK: THE DAY THE SEA STOOD STILL (From Bournemouth Echo)

And, in scenes reminiscent of the big freeze of 1962-3, a half-mile stretch of the shoreline and the inner harbour were covered in ice.
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The plummeting temperatures have earned this winter a place in the weather record books, alongside the great winter of 1962/3 and the blizzard of 1978.

The winter of 1962/3 was the coldest since 1740 and saw the sea freeze in Poole Harbour, with seagulls stuck to the ice.

Alberta: icy weather, warm pools

To deal with the cold, Calgarians did things that would make greenies explode.

Heading to Safeway to pick up a few groceries? Leave the car running and lock the doors. Going to be really cold outside? Use your remote car starter. One Calgarian I met hit the start button every four hours, getting his car chugging (Toronto's bylaw officers would call that idling) for 15 minutes.

"The car is never cold," he boasted.

Road salt? Forget about it. Way too cold. It's sand all the way here. The good thing about the weather is it does test the boasts of anti-freeze manufacturers. Good to -40C? We'll see.

The Free Liberal: A Different Kind of Depression May Decide Cold War II

But what if Global Warming doesn't happen? What if the prophecies don't come true? What if it turns out that the Earth cools, no matter the size of your carbon footprint?

What if, in other words, everything you do doesn't matter after all?

That's what Frankl called an "existential crisis." It's what Kierkegaard and Heidegger called "angst" (or "profound boredom") and what Camus called "the absurd."

And it's what a normal person would call "life-threatening depression."

Of course, such a widespread, crippling depression in the Church of Environmentalism would open the way for a much-needed Reformation. (A return to focusing on real pollution and on beautification, for instance, would be wonderful). But one wonders whether the Church could survive at all.

And with so much of our politics now tied up in the success of the Church, what effects would the spiritual depression caused by Global Cooling have on a new Cold War? The shreds of trust that citizens still have in their "leaders" will be gone. Entire programs, and billions (?) of dollars, will have gone to waste.

Furthermore, what would Global Cooling do to the messiahship of Obama? Obama isn't a politician like all the rest. You could lose your faith in politicians, and still believe in Obama.

But what if he claimed to be the Earth's healer, and then we discovered the Earth wasn't sick (at least, not sick in the way he said)? What "political will" would there be left to "fight" another Cold War in a culture who's new depressive catch phrase would be, "What's the point?"