"Explain that better please," the President invited him. "Tectonic plates movements, a slight shift of Earth's rotation axis caused by all the events I mentioned earlier, and finally a slight variation of Earth's orbit due to an alteration of gravity fields. The result of the sum of the effects of these three changes, as I said earlier, is that many places are no longer in the geographical position they were in until a few months ago. And so now they are subject to different climatic situations." "It's incredible," Kowalsky said. Ross nodded silently. "I suppose you didn't ask to see me just to talk about the weather ..." the President said. "Yes," agreed Hope, "here the climate changes are the minor problem." "Are you kidding? So what would be the biggest one?" Kowalsky asked. "What

