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Thursday, June 16, 2011

Sunspot Drop Won’t Cause Global Cooling | Wired Science | Wired.com

Sunspot Drop Won’t Cause Global Cooling | Wired Science | Wired.com: "News that solar activity might fizzle for a few decades has prompted talk of a new “Little Ice Age,” even a quick fix for global warming. But that’s just not going to happen.

The cooling impact of the last prolonged solar lull “was probably only a couple tenths of a degree Celsius,” said climatologist Michael Mann of Penn State University. “It’s a tiny blip on the radar screen if you’re looking at the driving factors behind climate change.”"

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