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Scientist predicts ‘mini Ice Age’
Lessee, thats twenty cords a year…plus…mmmmmm …and carry the 2, then…
Oh,no! where am I going to store the firewood!!!
I suppose the northern hemisphere will have some vegetation of sorts. Conifers will predominate, not too good for burning. Cedars, pines and poplar all over the place, no more hardwoods. Summers will be 40 days long, cold climate grasses and mosses will appear. The ice will hold up a lot of water. The 200 mile limits will no longer exist in most cases. National boundaries built on shorelines will need to be redrawn, skirmishes arising there also.
For the ones that stay, diets will suffer has we go to meat diets, lotta paunchy looking stunted(body mass) people passing these stunted genes into the 22nd century. Snowmobile sales will skyrocket and so will ice fishing gear. Population explosions too caused by too much snuggling. Close quarters has drawbacks too(snuggling not in that category
), tempers will be short due to cabin fever, and national boundaries will become a joke inspite of the armies.
I’m not a gun nut, even though I’ve done a stint in the 3rd 30th, but anyone who’s serious about protecting his family and food better be well armed. The people who don’t have primitive survival instincts and don’t plan ahead will discover that too late and start looking for the food caches of the wise ones.
Carnivores will start eyeing two legged pray has food becomes scarce, and polar animals will start heading south for the holidays.
For the ones that move, Mexico and equatorial nations will start to look mighty nice, and they will become the next industrial nations. Heated exchanges will arise has governments try to hold back the tides. Vegetation there will start to change from tropical to temperate, but soil conditions will not be able to sustain the globe has temperate sandy loam does in the north. Gone will be days of huge agri-businesses, everything subsistance. The locals will have a bad time keeping the foreigners out
So we visualize a cramped globe with everyone jostling for prime real estate around the equator. Arab nations will suddenly be handled with kid gloves, has favored nations get diplomatic go ahead by them, while the others will be victims of a score to settle. On the excuse of global policing, the powerful nations will be watchful for any slip, no matter how minor another nation will make to validate aggression. Sort of an extended cuban missle crises atmosphere will prevail, if not a complete war.
Not a happy scenerio.
Andy
