Sun down?

By stoat on June 29, 2011.

Don't bother read this post. Watch the video "Earth facing mini-ice age!!" say the media. Now for the science... instead. Or read the RC post.

I ignored this when it first came out, and am only posting now because the Economyth has picked it up. They lose points for not putting a question mark in their headline, but gain points from the byline "Several lines of evidence suggest that the sun is about to go quiet", i.e. not talking rubbish about a new ice age. And similarly, for spending much of the article on what it is actually about, viz solar activity. They lose somewhat for not putting in the proper caveats of "but we don't actually know this is true". But then they blow it right at the end with And it is interesting news for those who worry about global warming. If the Maunder and Dalton minima actually did affect the climate, then a new one might counteract the effects of the extra greenhouse gases people are now pumping into the atmosphere--at least, until the solar cycle returns which appears to be entirely made up. As far as I can see from the graph at RC, the suggestion that the solar-relative-cooling would counterbalance GHG warming is wrong.

[ht to Eduardo the neck-biter for the Economist link, and for the lulz of his not being able to say Rahmstorf's name -W]

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As far as I can see from the graph at RC, the suggestion that the solar-relative-cooling would counterbalance GHG warming is wrong.

Oh, yeah? Well, what if the sun goes out, huh? Have those CAGW alarmist warmistas at realclimate thought about that one?

Yes. And in the banner: Less CO2 emission - StatOil. Powered by Norwegian gas :-)
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Like reading: Less radioactive radiation - Powered by Fukushima

I find it intriguing that a stats nut like Eduardo talks about cycles when folks such as Tamino totally debunk notions of climatic cycles...is there a meeting-point?