Change is inevitably off course. What has been happening is the north pole is melting like fuck, evaporating into the local air and subsequently causing a lot of bad weather and precipitation around NW EU. For the past 10 years or so I have felt grateful every year that there was still at least a few of months of summer, been averaging I'd say 3-4 months of hot sol per year over here. There has been a noticable difference, but it could be a trend that will reverse itself, only I think polar ice takes longer to freeze up again. There is no way that anyone can say whether it will progress into an ice age, certainly there is a likelihood that Europe could face a severe winter like they get in Canada sometimes.

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I just saw an arial photograph of that large chunk of ice breaking away from the antarctic shelf, and it really does look like it is melting.