[RightWhale]

It belonged right here. The sun is a variable star, but some are seeing a little more variability than is actually occurring. More whiteness equates to a hotter sun, and some think they are seeing a whiter sun. The trend is toward a hotter sun, but the change wouldn't be appreciable or significant in a generation. Millions of years from now the oceans may boil, etc., but we need to look somewhere else for abrupt climate changes, if they are happening at all.