Main story at stuff.co.nz for the last hour or two: “Solar Minimum could trigger ice age”
Check the article’s opening paras:
The world could be heading for a new ‘solar minimum’ period, possibly plummeting the planet into an Ice Age, scientists say.
Researchers say the present increase in sun activity with solar flares and storms could be followed by this minimum period.
The period would see a cooling of the planet, refuting predictions of global-warming alarmists.
The research for this comes from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences.
WHAT THE HELL.
“Refuting the predictions of global-warming alarmists”? What kind of language is that? Completely inappropriate.
To google, and in moments I’ve found the abstract and ScienceDaily’s summary. From the latter:
…those findings cannot be directly transferred to future projections because the current climate is additionally affected by anthropogenic forcing.
So, from “climate is affected by anthropogenic forcing” to “refuting predictions of global warming alarmists” in one easy step.
This is UNACCEPTABLE. Where did it come from? A media release from one of the “climate sceptic” pressure groups? Heads should bloody well roll over this.
Too angry about this to say any more.
EDITED TO ADD: see also Hot Topic and The Atavism