FALLEN ANGELS WAS JUST A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL, RIGHT GUYS? RIGHT? GUYS? Glaciers on ice — for now: Rise in carbon emissions is delaying Earth’s next icy era. “Earth’s next big chill may be on hold. Earth should be nearing another frosty period — with a year-to-year expansion of polar and mountaintop ice. But that is not happening. And the reason seems to be a growing buildup of chemicals that warm the atmosphere, the so-called greenhouse gases. Chief among them: carbon dioxide, better known as CO2. . . . ‘Most probably, the next glaciation should have already started,’ says coauthor Paul Renne. He is a geoscientist at the Berkeley Geochronology Center in California. (Geo means of or relating to the Earth. Chronology refers to the order and timing of past events.) ‘We are experiencing a climate that has been modified by human activity,’ Renne says.”

So should we regard the discovery of massive new stores of fossil fuels via fracking at this very point as some sort of Divine Providence? . . .