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>> “My guess is that no one wants to face the fact that we can do little to reverse the trend.” <<
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The trend ended in 1933.
We have had 81 uninterrupted years of cooling since then, all caused by changes in the sun. Nothing that happens on Earth can get in its way.
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About ten years ago, I visited McDonald’;s observatory in Texas. At the visitor’s center they showEd a film that was partly animated. I still recall the depiction of the earth as a small blue stone glowing in the fiery rays of the sun, kept from burning to a cinder only by the magnetic field surrounding is