Mini-Ice Age: Sunspot Cycle Won't Counteract Global Warming

Which just goes to show that you shouldn't read today's papers.

"We have not predicted a Little Ice Age," Frank Hill of the National Solar Observatory told Reuters. "We have predicted something going on with the Sun." There's a key difference.

This is certainly the view of Michael Marshall who, writing in the New Scientist, has been quick to refute the claims of a global cooling event.

"The reality is that, while the sun may well be about to give us a shove in the direction of cool temperatures, the evidence suggests it won't be anything like enough to drown out the warming effects of our greenhouse gas emissions," he said. Read the full report here.

Source: by Gordon Macrae, International Business Times, UK.