CO2sceptics News Blog | Sun Still In Deep Slumber - 2008 Now Ranks #2 Since 1900 in # Sunspotless Days

With the number of sunspotless days reaching 16 so far this month, we have now exceeded 1912 as the 2nd quietest sun year since 1900. Only 1913 ranked higher with 311 days. With 12 more days this month as of this writing, we could reach as high as 266 days. Note that 2007 also ranked in the top 10.

Heliogenic Climate Change: Little Ice Age blamed on European conquest of the Americas

I kid you not...

Stanford University researchers have conducted a comprehensive analysis
of data detailing the amount of charcoal contained in soils and lake
sediments at the sites of both pre-Columbian population centers in the
Americas and in sparsely populated surrounding regions. They concluded
that reforestation of agricultural lands-abandoned as the population
collapsed-pulled so much carbon out of the atmosphere that it helped
trigger a period of global cooling, at its most intense from
approximately 1500 to 1750, known as the Little Ice Age.