A WHOLE NEW REASON TO FREAK OUT ABOUT THE WEATHER

Damn scientists can’t make their minds up. Now that we’ve all been trained to worry about the Earth warming up a few degrees (the horror!), some scientists are now claiming that we have a bigger problem to worry about: the coming of a new ice age. The twin culprits are the sun’s magnetic field and the flow of ocean and wind currents (no room for science here... go Google it) with the bottom line being that we’ve suffered the coldest winter since Al Gore became a superhero and glaciers are once again growing rather than shrinking. According to Australian geophysicist Phil Chapman, a lack of sunspot activity and the weakening of the sun’s magnetic field is to blame for the world’s rapid cooling since January 2007. "This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930," said Dr Chapman. "If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over.” But only until it starts again... (Times of India)