Indications are that what had been predicted to be a peak part of the sun’s 11-year sunspot cycle is, for some reason, moving in to a lull period. The last time we had a Maunder Minimum, humanity lived through the coldest period of the Little Ice Age. But, thanks to global warming, we should make it through with no net effect. Thanks, global warming!
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Burt, please go and find some actual information. IIRC, we’ve just been through increasing global temps right through an unusually low and long solar minimum (on the 11-year cycle).
Lighten up, Barry. I wasn’t being entirely serious here.
Sorry – I was being rude. In defense, I’ve seen this again and again and again. Denialists seize on every blip in the data to argue that global warming is over. Or a rather, every downward blip in the data.
It seems that if the Sun did go into prolonged down cycle, that would counter a decade or less of greehouse gas growth.
Right, and if you assume that the Vostok ice core data is wrong, too… well, you’d look at the temperature curves deduced from those core samples and obviously assume temperatures would be going up and to the right, right? No….
Ah, but what the hey… we’ll see…
and, by the way, I do have a degree in Engineering and I’m REALLY good at inferring trends from graphs… 🙂
“…and, by the way, I do have a degree in Engineering and I’m REALLY good at inferring trends from graphs… :)”
I was referring to the previous denialist line, which was to use the 1998 blip as evidence that global warming was over, and that we were cooling (even well after the trend had caught up to the blip).