By Viv Forbes, with help from friends
A long time ago
the universe was made of ice.Then one day the ice began to melt,
and a mist rose into the sky.Out of the mist came a giant made of frost,
and the earth and heavens were made from his body.That is how the world began,
and that is how the world will end.Not by fire
An Ancient Scandinavian Legend, quoted by Robert W Felix in his great book: “NOT BY FIRE BUT BY ICE”.
but by Ice.
Earth is living in the latter days of the Holocene Warm Era. This is the latest short, fertile, warm interlude within the long, barren, Pleistocene Ice Age.

We are at the top on the RHS of that cycle. Does that look like a bottom, or a top?
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