Could the sun save us from global warming? - Science - Salon.com

Carbon emissions have warmed the planet dramatically, but we happen to be entering a new sunspot [i.e., heartbeat] cycle -- the 24th in our recorded history. Many experts believe that not only will it have weak maximum temperatures, but very deep minimums. If this is true, it's the best thing that can possibly happen. The sun would effectively buy us time to switch over to non-fossil fuels. If we end up having strong or even normal maximums, temperatures in 2015 could be hotter than humans have ever seen before.

[q] I'm guessing that skeptics of global warming have willfully ignored this research.

They have, and to our great peril. The fact that the sun has kept global warming down over the last 10 years has given some people an excuse to declare that it simply doesn't exist.

Dramatic Changes in the Arctic | Real Science

Scary stuff. That hasn’t ever happened before!

- Bishop Hill blog - Guardian: "No agenda"

The Guardian has an interesting thread in which it appears to deny having an agenda on the AGW issue. Or sort of denies it

“No, you mustn’t say what it means!” « Calder's Updates

[startling remark by Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Director General of CERN] I have asked the colleagues to present the results clearly, but not to interpret them. That would go immediately into the highly political arena of the climate change debate. One has to make clear that cosmic radiation is only one of many parameters.