Friday, June 13, 2008

The "we're all gonna die" headlines of the week

Sun Seems Eerily Calm
By Andrea Thompson
Senior Writer
posted: 11 June 2008
09:28 am ET

The sun's surface has been fairly blank for the last couple of years, and that has some worried that it may be entering another Maunder minimum, the sun's 50-year abstinence from sunspots, which some scientists have linked to the Little Ice Age of the 17th century.

Could a new sunspot drought plunge us into another decades-long cold spell?

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no, not really.

More on the Maunder Minimum HERE.

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