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."

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The data shows...

[Mage66]

That we've been in a cooling period since 1998 that has reversed ALL of the observed warming that took place previously in the early 20th Century and more.

The assertion that the calm Sun activity won't reverse the warming is true only in that there is no longer any warming to reverse.

Re:Denialists are the only ones

[operagost]

Carbon dioxide concentrations would have to increase by about 30 times to actually cause health issues.