November 29, 2006 10:51AM 

# Global Warming? Let’s Hope So … 

By [Jerry Taylor](https://www.cato.org/people/jerry-taylor) 

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If the climate researchers at the [Russian Academy of Sciences](http://www.ras.ru/index.aspx?_Language=en) are right, global warming might turn out to be a blessing. Based on their analysis of solar cycles, scientists there [are increasingly worried](http://www.playfuls.com/news_003020_Russian_Scientists_Predict_New_Ice_Age_In_50_Years.html) that a mini ice-age is around the corner. Warming might be the only thing standing between us and a glacial blitzkrieg due around 2055.

Just throwing that out there.…

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