The Independent reports about what is happening on the Sun (the star, not the newspaper). ‘But now the speculation has grown louder because of what is happening to our Sun. No living scientist has seen it behave this way. There are no sunspots.’
You will recall that not so long ago if you referred to the climate and solar activity in the same breath you were a heretic. Not now, it seems. ‘solar scientists have been reticent about it because of its connections with those who those who deny climate change’; yes indeed.
‘When the Sun has gone quiet like this before, it coincided with the earth cooling slightly and there is speculation that a similar thing could happen now. If so, it could alter all our predictions of climate change, and show that our understanding of climate change might not be anywhere near as good as we thought.’
Don’t you get impatient with these people? A new term, ‘climate change denier’ is coined to make it sound like holocaust denier, and the coterie of self-selected experts froth at the mouth when anyone even questions their orthodoxy, whilst quietly, in the background, the whole thing is being reappraised.
If this turns out to be correct, and we are in for a mini ice-age, I should like to see the whole damned lot of them rounded up and put in a large fridge.
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