Global Cooling

In the below linked article Saku Tsuneta, a scientist is quoted as saying, ""That's a small concern, a very small concern." What is he talking about? The sun is the topic, specifically that it is very inactive. The article never comes right out and says what exactly he's concerned about. "What's the problem with an inactive sun?" is never asked or answered.

We do get a hint, however. In what must have been this reporter's effort at balanced reporting we read,

"In the past, they observed that the sun once went 50 years without producing sunspots. That period, from approximately 1650 to 1700, occurred during the middle of a little ice age on Earth that lasted from as early as the mid-15th century to as late as the mid-19th century."

What they don't say is that many scientists believe it didn't just happen during the middle of the little ice age but was rather the cause of the little ice age.

Sun Goes Longer Than Normal Without Producing Sunspots

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