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Old 17th-April-2007, 09:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Skeptic
Just a comment about the sun. You are correct in that solar activity has not altered appreciably for 30 years, so has had little influence on climate change over that time. However, it is still at an awesomely high level, and could drop at any stage, which would be a strong cooling influence. Some would-be prophets are claiming that past solar cycles permit a prediction of such a drop in 2030. I will probably still be alive to see it, if it happens.
If you consider that the melting of our ice 'could' alter ocean circulation (potentially causing another mini-ice-age or worse) and combine this with the predicted decline of solar output we could have a recipe for disaster. We may be looking back on 2000-2010 as the good old days.

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