[geeks] Mr Bill?

[Phil Stracchino]

Sandwich Maker wrote:
> " From: Mike Meredith <very at zonky.org>
> " 
> " 
> " Personally I can't see the link between sunspots and 'periods of cold',
> " and the most likely cause of a _serious_ "mini ice-age" is likely to be
> " something happening to the gulf stream.
> 
> the 'maunder minimum', 80 years when as far as is known there were
> -no- sunspots, coincided with the 'little ice age' [15th c?] when not
> only the thames but also the dutch canals [hans brinker...] and the
> straits between denmark and sweden froze over.
> 
> causality is not established without more and better-observed
> experiments...


Simple truth here:  We orbit a variable star whose activity cycle we do
not fully understand.


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