[Paul R.]

This won’t post as an image, but it’s a rather interesting pattern!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age#mediaviewer/File:Vostok_Petit_data.svg

and:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age#mediaviewer/File:Five_Myr_Climate_Change.svg

[Paul R.]

In the Newsmax version of this article, Casey speculates that cooling could be part of the reason Putin wants Ukraine — that Russia has in the past heavily depended on Ukraine’s wheat when cold periods occurred, and crops in Russia failed. Wouldn’t that be interesting, if indeed Russia did come to need Ukraine wheat as much as Ukraine needs Russian gas...

http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/dark-winter-cold-global-cooling/2014/11/16/id/607672/