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A grand solar minimum would barely make a dent in human-caused global warming
2013-08-14 06:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Recent articles in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten (translation available here) and in the Irish Times both ran headlines claiming that another grand solar minimum could potentially trigger an "ice age" or "mini ice age" this century. These articles actually refer to the Little Ice Age (LIA) a period about 500 to 150 years ago when global surface temperatures were approximately 1°C colder than they are today. This is quite different from an ice age, which are more like 5°C colder than today....
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