"Metres of snow every day for months on end", as seems to have occurred before, would kill everyone in northern countries - Russia, Poland, Germany, Scandinavia, northern Britain, Canada, northern USA - from Moscow to Seattle - in just a few days.
Elementary risk analysis shows that, at the very least, detailed studies of possible counter-measures and even preparations for a "crash program" are URGENTLY needed.
Governments have already spent hundreds of millions, supposedly to avert global warming, yet even the worst-case risk is decades away.
The coming ice age could be just one winter away.
Dr. Patrick Collins, Azabu University, Japan, is Collaborating Researcher with the Institute for Space & Astronautical Science
Squirrels have a lot to teach us about gathering what will be needed for the winter. Sustaining life and knowing what winter can be like, the squirrel collects enough to get through the hard months.
Maybe this is why I have the idea strongly in my mind to weave blankets? 'URGENT' it is, to understand that we will be subject to the turning cycles of nature and individual human awakening to the clear and present state of things as they are in this world, will probably determine how the human race and 'if' the human race meets what the future brings ... is bringing now.
In a strangely juxtaposed everyday world, to the enormous and most amazing paradigm shift that is happening, I am off now to walk the dog, collect sawdust for a compost loo, paint a shed and dig the garden.