In the late 1960s and early ’70s, climatologists envisioned the start of a new ice age because it was becoming clear that a cycle of planetary cooling was detected in the post-1940s record. The Central Intelligence Agency of the United States commissioned studies of the global political stresses that would ensue with a 1 °C (1.8 °F) temperature decline. The central question revolved around the locations of the political hot spots in a cooling world. The results of these studies were published under the title The Weather Conspiracy. In the late 1970s, Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs addressed these ...(100 of 37038 words)