Well, I didn’t really move north in the hope that tropical temps and accompanying increased property values would soon follow...
Indeed, everything is occurring in a manner I have predicted for a few years now, based on a personal theory of a 34-year (+/-1) cycle. If I’m right, we have been in a cooling trend since about 1995 which will bottom out with the winter of 2012-13 (if you remember 1978-79, you know what I’m talking about, and it’s Not Scottish).
By 2015 I would expect to see the “next Ice Age” scare stories begin to reappear. Too late, however, as we will already be on the next upward slope.
So I guess we could call that prediction a micro-Ice Age centered on 2012-2013 ? Let us hope such a cooling event will indeed be short. Gee, I sure wish I could afford 30 year old Scotch.