Tokyo, today, also cold at sunset.
(Click to enlarge.)la venue d'un âge de glace mini
It is very cold in Japan. It snowed even in Hiroshima.
Some scientist has actually predicted that a mini-ice age has actually come.
30 Years of Global Cooling Are Coming, Leading Scientist Says
Published January 11, 2010
Latif thinks the cold snap Americans have been suffering through is only the beginning. He says we're in for 30 years of cooler temperatures -- a mini ice age, he calls it, basing his theory on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the world's oceans.
Latif, a professor at the Leibniz Institute at Germany's Kiel University and an author of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, believes the lengthy cold weather is merely a pause -- a 30-years-long blip -- in the larger cycle of global warming, which postulates that temperatures will rise rapidly over the coming years.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/11/years-global-cooling-coming-leading-scientist-says/
According to a theory, the fall of the Roman Empire and the subsequent social stagnation in Europe could be ascribed to a climate change or global cooling of a large scale that happened between the third century and the fifth century.
If so, the coming 30-years long cooling might trigger a fall of Europe and America, though a possible scenario in this line is yet to be drawn.
Anyway, Mencius said:
"Once, one of disciples of Confucius was recruited by an avid king to be promoted to the premier.
But, this ex-disciple of Confucius could not correct vicious behaviors of his king.
What is worse, he doubled a tax rate to please the greedy king and increase his own fortune.
Accordingly, Confucius said to his disciples around him that they should criticize the ex-disciple fully since he was no longer their friend."
Especially Japanese politicians of today should fully take heed of this teaching.
And, do not increase a tax rate by 100%.