Sun’s Activity Is Extremely Weak Compared to Similar Stars – “We Were Very Surprised

Sci-Tech Daily ^ | May 1, 2020 | Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research

[SkyDancer]

And either a million miles closer we’d fried to a crisp or a million miles further away we’d all freeze - well I guess the climate change people would happy.

[Reily]

An excellent book!

[ssfromla]

If only they could put chemicals in the sun's atmosphere. They may be able to cool it down at their leisure.

They have the technology. They've dropped chemicals in our atmosphere for over a decade. /s

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin. Natural climate fluctuations, radiocarbon fluctuations, and archaeoastronomy (not in the usual sense, though).

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

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[SunkenCiv]

Karl's hit it exactly, imho, this is just another "the Sun's fluctuation doesn't cause climate change" story.

[shanover]

I just want to know what Hitler’s great granddaughter Greta thinks.

[a fool in paradise]

Maybe the sun is giving us a break as the earth is giving us an attack with a virus. Where the nature people on that?

[minnesota_bound]

I am thinking higher taxes would solve this problem.