Everyone knows by now that the Earth is ill. It must be because its temperature is reported to be rising. Well, it's not so simple. A warming trend began about 300 years ago, during the Little Ice Age, but this has nothing to do with human activity, or the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The 300-year trend and the fluctuations within it are closely correlated with solar activity.

Within this trend there are smaller cycles, up and down, and we don't have enough information to know exactly where we are within such cycles. Uncertainty about natural phenomena should not become the excuse for governments to restrict the use of fossil fuels, but the crazy fact is that if the sun continues its 300-year warming trend, in the next few years environmentalists may succeed in closing down half of humanity's energy supplies.

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