If you look at a small part of a sin wave, you could think it's going up forever, going down forever (stop snickering, this is... ehhh. snicker) or flat.

Take the Sun, our baseline for accurate observations and how it affects the Earth is around 40 years yet nobody ever seems to mention that.
Looking at ice core samples, for instance, can only give gross measurements, the margin for error is huge. It's only since we've had advanced satellites and good computers to parse the data that we could understand it. And even if you go back say, 4,000 years taking Chinese astrologers/astronomers into account, that's less than an eyeblink to the Earth, much less the Sun. Say the Earth is 4 billion years old, 4,000 years is like less than a 100th of that. Probably a lot less.

So the Sun kind of shut down in 2008 and surprised and scared the hell out of scientists. They've been saying, "It'll start up real soon and boy will it go crazy" for about 2 years now, and it just refuses to do what they want.
Well, it finally kind of started and scientists heaved a sigh of relief, until they realized it still wasn't doing what they expected.
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But for the past two years, the sunspots have mostly been missing. Their absence, the most prolonged for nearly a hundred years, has taken even seasoned sun watchers by surprise. "This is solar behaviour we haven't seen in living memory,"

It's freaking them out too.
Read the whole thing, notice that it's been in the last 5-10 years that they've had accurate readings with one satellite going up 15 years ago. It's funny how they tapdance around how much effect the Sun has on the climate, but the article is surprisingly fact-ful.

It won't do any good for committed global warmmongers, but it's good for someone who's interested in actual facts and science and stuff.
Saw it at the puppy blender's.

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