One Less Thing

Here's the lede from a story in today's New York Times, headlined "Scientists Back Off Theory of a Colder Europe in a Warming World":

Mainstream climatologists who have feared that global warming could have the paradoxical effect of cooling northwestern Europe or even plunging it into a small ice age have stopped worrying about that particular disaster...

That's a relief. Now we can all get back to worrying about incessant heat waves, snowless Alps, and the watery fate of the Netherlands.