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Article: Whatever happened to global cooling?

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June 5, 2008
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What do scientists know about global warming? In the 1970s, they predicted a coming ice age, right? Not quite. Owen Amos discovers why experts soon weren't so hot on the idea

The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin Engines stop running, but I have no fear 'Cause London is drowning and I live by the river.'

- London Calling, by The Clash (1979)

THE warning is stark. "There are ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically, " the article says. "And that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production - with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth. The regions destined ...

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