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No, We're Not Headed For a New Ice Age

Posted by Soulskill on from the snowboard-stocks-plummet dept.

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."

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  1. Lack of Mammoth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course we are not headed for a new ice age. You can't have an ice age without mammoths.

    Nobody is working on cloning mammoths, right?

    1. Re:Lack of Mammoth by amliebsch · · Score: 3, Funny

      Uh oh.

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  2. Re:And we know this because...? by tripleevenfall · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shun the non-believer

    Shunnnnnnn

  3. I'm not believing anything until.. by gearloos · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not believing anything until Al Gore says it's so.

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  4. Re:First Post! by daedae · · Score: 3, Funny

    Come on, an article about an ice age would've been the only appropriate time to refer to a first post at frosty piss.