When I was a child, the doomsayers claimed we were entering another ice age. I would imagine snow in South Florida and got excited when we actually had flurries in 1976. When I was a young adult, the doomsayers claimed the ice age theory was wrong, that mankind was polluting the environment with greenhouse gases such as methane and that global warming was coming. This refrain continued for years despite revelations that cows and trees are some of the biggest producers of "greenhouse" gases.

Now that I am middle-aged, a Russian astronomer claims temperatures will peak in six or seven years and that I can look forward to chilly golden years with my grandchildren as we enter a mini ice age. At least his theory makes sense, has a testable timeframe, and explains why Mars has been warming at the same time as the Earth even without mankind, trees, or bovines.

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