With the planet allegedly on the brink of fiery apocalypse, alarmist is "worried" about lower temperatures

Theories on calmer sun flare up - Kansas City Star

If the effect is to cool the Earth, as in the so-called Maunder Minimum, the Little Ice Age that ran from 1645 to 1715, some scientists worry that it would mask the effects of global warming caused by a buildup of greenhouse gases.

“The problem is if the sun is, indeed, going into a minimum, which we don’t know yet, people will think that we don’t have to act on climate change,” said Angela Speck, an astrophysicist at the University of Missouri. “The sun came back out of that minimum in the 18th century” — when the River Thames turned to ice — “and it will come back out of this.”

“I’m inclined to think the effects are real,” said Adrian Melott, another KU astrophysicist. “But the evidence is nowhere as solid as it is for the carbon dioxide buildup in the atmosphere” and climate change.

“My worry,” he said, “is that it will lower temperatures and cause people to think it’s OK to burn all that coal and oil.”