New Island...

...forming.

Fascinating...

...history of planet earth. Kinda drives home the real possibility that some day we will be extinct.

Please, please, please, please, please,,,

...I hope this is not true:

New data backs 'ice age' prediction

"As the United Nations prepares for its 2014 Climate Summit in New York this month with an agenda to advance a new carbon-emissions regulatory agreement to supersede the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the Russian scientist who correctly predicted the lack of global warming over the past 19 years has gained new scientific support for his belief that Earth is in the beginning of a prolonged ice age. (Emphasis mine)
A new study from Lund University in Sweden, published Aug. 17 in Nature Geoscience, has reconstructed solar activity during the last ice age, the last so-called “global maximum” extending from 20,000 to 10,000 years ago. Analysis of trace elements in ice cores in Greenland and from cave formations in China indicates the growth and melting of a thick ice sheet stretching from the Arctic to northern Germany were related to variations in the sun’s UV radiation output.

“The study shows an unexpected link between solar activity and climate change. It shows both that changes in solar activity are nothing new and that solar activity influences the climate, especially on a regional level."

Maybe he's just trying to bolster the justification for the seizure of Crimea by the big boss in Moscow.

Contrast and compare:

Certainty Humans Are Driving Global Warming: New Study

Al Gore’s global-warming rhetoric is put on ice