Why Europe will soon be cold, page-15

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    Firstly the paper referred to makes no suggestion that Europe faces an ice age, its about sunspots

    "Heartbeat of the Sun from Principal Component Analysis and prediction of solar activity on a millenium timescale"
    • Scientific Reports 5, Article number: 15689

    Sunspots have been flogged to death.

    For a summary of the peer reviewed literature

    http://www.skepticalscience.com/solar-activity-sunspots-global-warming-intermediate.htm

    See also

    http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sun-spots-and-climate-change/

    Summary

    Peter Foukal of the Massachusetts-based firm Heliophysics, Inc., who has tracked sunspot intensities from different spots around the globe dating back four centuries, also concludes that such solar disturbances have little or no impact on global warming. Nevertheless, he adds, most up-to-date climate models—including those used by the United Nations’ prestigious Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—incorporate the effects of the sun’s variable degree of brightness in their overall calculations.
 
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