On Aug 22, 5:21*pm, Chris L Peterson wrote:

Sure. But nobody is predicting the return of massive glaciation here.
Just something like the Little Ice Age that hit the northern
hemisphere a few hundred years ago.

True. But if the crops fail all across the Northern Hemisphere because
of a "year without a summer", it's unclear where we are supposed to
buy our food from.

So that it could be more catastrophic, even if just for the developed
world, than the ordinary consequences of global warming does seem
plausible in that case as well.

John Savard