Mail Online “absolutely wrong” to infer global cooling from new
research - but that doesn't stop it warning of new ‘Ice Age’ -
09 May 2012, 15:45 - Verity Payne new research was published in
the journal Nature Geoscience suggesting that a period of low
solar activity about 2,800 years ago was associated with a
sudden increase in windy weather in western Europe in late
winter and early spring. A Mail Online article uses this
research to infer that we might now face ' global cooling' -
adding to the ongoing series of articles the Mail has published
that appear to be an attempt to dismiss man-made Just as on a
number of previous occasions in which the Mail has linked new
research into the sun's effects on climate to the prospect of a
' new ice age' or ' mini ice age', the Mail's interpretation of
the new scientific paper is plain wrong. The researchers
involved studied lake sediments from Germany which were
deposited around 2-3 thousand years ago. They find that during a
period of very low solar activity called