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From: Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com>
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Subject: Re: "Washington Post Accidentally Admits Earth at Coolest Point in
 the Last 485 Million Years"
Date: 28 Sep 2024 14:12:59 GMT
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On 2024-09-28, William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
....
> Changes in ocean circulation can have a strong impact on regional 
> climates and can occur quite rapidly, as we may discover later this 
> century.  Ice age climates are even more variable, with the younger 
> Dryas cooling setting in over less than five years in the Northern 
> Hemisphere, cooling winters several degrees C, while leaving summers 
> unaltered.    There is some reason to believe that this event was set 
> off by volcanic cooling.   But at the moment that's just an idea.
>
> Solar.  While this doesn't seem to ever amount to much, it does exist, 
> and if it adds to the above, which it may have done in the little ice 
> age, it can be significant.
>
> But none of these processes is active now.

Hmm. I thought we had entered a period of solar output actively
affecting climate.

The reduced solar output is very minor and obviously no overall
temperature reduction is occurring now in this time of global warming,
but I did think it was active.

Chris