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As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientist are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meterorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past two decades.The trend show no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.

Telltale signs are everywhere__from the unexpected persistence and thickness of ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest. Since the 1940's the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7 degrees F. although that figure is at best an estimate, its is supported by other convincing data."

Cite-From Time magazine, June 24, 1974
Reprinted WSJ April 30, 2015 in Notable & Quotable