Which can be found in of all places the Farmers Almanac 2013 edition as strange as it sounds. “When the Sun Takes a Vacation” looks not only at Global Warming, but at the growing theory that we are soon to fact another mini Ice Age. Yep for real. It tells of how conditions now were very similar to where they were before the mini Ice Age (1550 to 1850). When Global Temperatures dropped 1.8 degrees when it because so cold you could actually walk across New York Harbor, and massive Ice Fairs took place on the Thames River in England. When years earlier it was so warm sheep actually grazed in Greenland and wine could be produced in Scotland…and we thought we were warm.
Although the article does not give a definitive answer. It does give us an insight on the controversy that is the weather of late.