The drop in temperature simply is the politically induced error into the system that is now being taken out.

The development of reversible climate-engineering technology?

We should not be basing public policy on science fiction.

Or potentially opening Pandora’s Box — even wider — to unknown calamities of our own making.

Frankly, a few extra blankets or space heaters will be sufficient to keep us warm for centuries and centuries to come.

What we *do* need, however, is as much abundant, efficient energy as possible. Energy is, literally, what drives human civilization.

Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) — Sweden’s best-known ski race is in jeopardy after the warmest winter on record left the Nordic country bereft of snow.
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Weather disruptions have caused the race’s 48,000 participants, including members of the royal family, to improvise before. The 56-mile event was canceled for the third time in its 86-year history in 1990. In 2005, locals had to scrape up snow from nearby lakes and import it from high-altitude ski resorts. The search resulted in a 3 million-krona ($470,000) loss and a decision to start a special fund for artificial snow production.
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Temperatures this winter in Stockholm, the capital, are on course to be the highest since 1756, when records began, according to the Swedish National Meteorological Agency. Snow has previously fallen in winter for as many as 100 straight days.

I am, in fact, a global-warming skeptic, but I’m not a global-warming denier. Ditto for global cooling. Basic research is needed, and development of reversible climate-engineering technology is needed.

Dinocrat writes:

…it is only a matter of time until the global huckster community does a 180 and finds a way to blame this too on human activity, exploiting this new form of “climate change” as an excuse for more taxation and regulation.

I too have recently noticed the usage of “climate change” in places where “global warming” would once have been written.

Climate change is a legitimate concern for an advanced planetary civilization, but I’m not sure which is the greater danger: climate change itself or its political misuse as a pretext for a power grab.