I was browsing the Croatian press, as one does, and came across an article in the (English-language) Croatian Times about a scientist at Zagreb University who has been expressing views sharply at variance with what had until recently been conventional wisdom in the Salons and Huffington Posts of the West: Forget global warming, says "renowned physicist" Vladimir Paar (whose photo on the Croatian Times website is oddly blurry, like a KGB mug shot from the old days); "most of Europe will be under ice, including Germany, Poland, France, Austria, Slovakia and a part of Slovenia. Previous ice ages lasted about 70,000 years. That's a fact," says Dr. Paar, who clearly brooks no dissent, "and the new ice age can't be avoided. The big question is what will happen to the people of the Central European countries which will be under ice?"

That is, indeed, the $64,000 question. Maybe if Antarctica sticks to the original script, the solution could lie there: New Zagreb-on-Sea, with luxury condos overlooking McMurdo Sound.