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No, We're Not Headed For a New Ice Age
purkinje writes "Unusual calm in the solar cycle — called a solar activity minimum — has sparked claims that the Sun will cool the Earth, leading us into a new ice age. While Europe did experience a Little Ice Age during a solar activity minimum three centuries ago, the connection between sunspots and climate is a lot more complicated, and it's unlikely this change in the Sun's activity will cool Earth down — or even affect the climate at all. Plus, any cooling that might come from this would be less than the global warming that's been going on. So don't pull out that parka yet; a new ice age seems more than unlikely."
not so fast. You give the global warming scare story too much credit by calling it a theory. It doesn't even have that status as the data (and let's make it clear that computer model output does NOT equal data) does not support the hypothesis. To date, the null hypothesis has yet to be ruled out. Until it is, the CO2 driven global warming hypothesis will never be a theory.
For the record, I am not some right-wing talking head. I am just a supporter of actually employing the scientific method.