[Hot Tabasco]

the protective shield of energy that surrounds our solar system, has weakened by 25 per cent over the past decade

Any ideas as to how that shield is energized? (No, not the bunny....)

If this isn't a new phenomenon then the theory is bogus. In the past 50 + years it should have been depleted by now.......

[John W]

Besides that, the story is out today and they’re launching the IBEX tomorrow. NASA is a government agency. When did they really discover this-10 years ago?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Note the time frame! This article addresses just the past decade of trends in the solar front.

Over the past DECADE, global temperatures on average have DECLINED slightly, (not risen!); but over the previous 28 years (from the low point near 1972 to the high in 1998).

So the century-long trend (rising from 1900 to 1940, falling from 1945 to 1972, rising from 1972 to 1998) remains valid over a 70 year periodicity.