Slashdot Mirror
Big Drop In Solar Activity Could Cool Earth
coondoggie writes "Scientists say the Sun, which roils with flares and electromagnetic energy every 11 years or so, could go into virtual hibernation after the current cycle of high activity, reducing temperatures on Earth. As the current sunspot cycle, Cycle 24, begins to ramp up toward maximum, scientists from the National Solar Observatory and the Air Force Research Laboratory independently found that the Sun's interior, visible surface, and corona indicate the next 11-year solar sunspot cycle, Cycle 25, will be greatly reduced or may not happen at all."
If you -actually- believed any of that you would be a vegan living in the wild. But you arent. You use electricity and cars and support the killing of the other living things on the earth just as much as the next guy. Be mature enough to admit it.
"You are completely right. We can burn all the fossil fuels we want forever and it will never change the temperature of the planet by a single degree."
Being a skeptic about global warming/climate change/whatever you're calling it today does NOT necessarily mean a person has a selfish reason, such as wanting to burn more fossil fuels with a clean conscience. I think we need to burn less gas at least for the pollution since I've seen the effects, having had to live through smog alerts before.
"However, unless you believe that the Earth is some sort of oil factory that we can crank up at our convenience, you must know that eventually there won't be anymore."
True, but we've become jaded by the false predictions of the chicken littles. We were supposed to have run out of oil by now -- run out of food too. We were supposed to be doing a Soylent Green by now according to them.