[Mariner]

"How tragic for algore and the rest of his posse..."

Far more tragic for the people of Europe. Most of their farmland is north of the worst weather and if things stay this bad or worse for a couple of decades they will starve.

Many countries east of the old dividing line...even south to Romania and Ukraine...are still very poor. Hell, even east to the Czech Republic and Hungary. The Balkans.

If we really are in a cyclical mini ice age, the human cost will be enormous.

The only saving grace is that most of these folks are from good Celt, Slav, Goth, and Saxon stock. That's about 20% Neanderthal.

They will survive. Even if they have to eat their dogs.

[Noob1999]

................Even if they have to eat their dogs................

Now, ya didn’t hafta’ go there, did’ya??

[JSteff]

That's about 20% Neanderthal.

For literary reasons that might be okay, but realism says Neanderthals did not exchange genes with the other cohabitants of earth... at least not those that survived and developed further.