Marc PD4U wrote: > But is the solar minimum the (only necessary and sufficient) explaining > factor for a global cooling? > As we say in Holland "One swallow doesn't make it summer" meaning: one > cannot 'jump to conclusions' based on unsufficient data, and beside that > the swallow is not the explaining factor for summer to arise, but a > result of it.
There simply is not enough data yet for either global cooling or global warming. A 100 year period could be simple blip in the geological climate record. The temperature data over the last few thousand years shows several temperature blips, both to the warm and the cold side, as well as a longer term warming trend coming out of the last ice age. Whether or not the data from the last 100 years means anything within this trend probably won't be clear for another century or two. -- All rights reversed.
