Climate Allegedly in Crisis [from warming or cooling] | The Cornell Daily Sun

President Barack Obama diagnosed the social and biophysical climate during his January 20 Inauguration speech to three million onlookers huddled in the freezing cold. “Each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet,” he said. Though the government supports the theory of warming, critics believe this theory represents a gross misrepresentation of data, and that the world may instead be at the start of an extended period of global cooling.
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If droughts and extreme weather events become severe enough, Mahowald mused, an ice age might be a relief. “The new ice age will come, but not soon enough to save us,” she said. Mahowald added, “There’s a lot of inertia in the system, and the carbon dioxide we’re producing will stay in the atmosphere for hundreds or thousands of years.”

“This cooling is only going to last a few years, and then we’re going to have the same problem [of global warming],” asserted DeGaetano. “We’re due for another ice age, but not in our lifetime.”

Earth Hour 2009: An extremely sparse list of well-known supporters this year?

A host of high profile ambassadors across the world have also lent their support to the campaign, most notably Nobel Peace Prize recipient Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett.