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[TCRS]

global warming they said.

 

[SteveWinwood]

"Go back about 100 years"

That's what, a hundredth of a second in the lifespan of a star?

No, it's one hundred years in the lifespan of a star.

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

Didn't we just have a massive solar flare like last week?

That was just you Steve

 

[Guerrillas in the Mist]

I wish The Sun would be quiet.

I wish my SON would be quiet.

Nice.

 

[Sorcerer]

Blame Green Lantern for luring Parallax into the Sun.

 

[SolidusDave]

That's nothing in geological terms. So why is this news?

Because it seems to happen faster than ever recorded (including when calculated from those ice samples), so it could go down further. Also, it goes completely against the usual 11 year up&down activity cycle.

Apparently those fluctuations aren't big enough to have too much of an influence on the global temperature, but maybe we get another few years of buffer out of it that allows to limit human impact further?

 

[maquiladora]

Didn't we just have a massive solar flare like last week?

There was an x-class flare from one of the biggest sunspots in years, yeah. So it's not like the sun is dead, it's just not as active as expected, on a broader timescale.

 

[KHarvey16]

Did you guys happen to read all of the article?

He explains: "If we take all the science that we know relating to how the Sun emits heat and light and how that heat and light powers our climate system, and we look at the climate system globally, the difference that it makes even going back into Maunder Minimum conditions is very small.

"I've done a number of studies that show at the very most it might buy you about five years before you reach a certain global average temperature level. But that's not to say, on a more regional basis there aren't changes to the patterns of our weather that we'll have to get used to."

 

[IdreamofHIME]

How will Superman survive?

 

[davepoobond]

How will Superman survive?

Looks like he's going to have to change to Maunderminimumman

 

[witness]

Thanks Obama

 

[sammex]

Low solar radiation?

Mission to Mars is back on!

 

[SquiddyCracker]

I was really hoping this was the other Sun

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

Did you guys happen to read all of the article?

Yeah. Now that's what I call a "wishy washy" statement.
I guess he could have been even more ambiguous, but it would have been a borderline Onion News level statement and he couldn't have that.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Silence will fall when the question is asked.

 

[Oriel]

Obligatory.

 

[Musolf815]

 

[Rhomega Beta]

OUENDAAAAN!

 

[Nilaul]

It's going to balloon into a red giant. No worries.

I have a needle on standby.

 

[Elfforkusu]

global warming they said.

Good thing we prepared for the sun going dark by boosting our atmosphere with 2x the greenhouse gases!

All according to keikaku!

 

[Chumpion]

This is a good thing because it reduces the chances of a massive CME, which could fuck us royally.

 

[Buzzman]

I didn't see him deny that humans are causing problems. He's a well known right wing troll, but he simply said that global warming is a joke. Which it is.
The sun will always have the last word.

empty vessel

right wing troll

did I miss something

 

[commedieu]

wow.. You get 5 points.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

I like to think that the sun keeps a watchful eye over us and that this cool-down is merely her way of balancing things out.

I like to think the sun wears sunglasses and drinks pepsi