Today WUWT-ers are in a dilemma. They are being asked to look at a climate discussion about the role of the sun in climate change. (The WUWT article is archived here.) Marcel Crok has posed a question for discussion at Climate Dialogue, namely:
What will happen during a new Maunder Minimum?
This question has been discussed at HotWhopper in the past, for example, here and here. And here is a link to a scientific paper on the subject, and one to a realclimate.org article. Even a grand solar minimum would only have a small temporary impact on global temperatures compared to the impact of rising greenhouse gases.
If you want to read the discussion by scientists, go to Climate Dialogue. The scientists who have presented their various scientific findings are:
- Mike Lockwood from the University of Reading
- Nicola Scafetta from Duke University
- Jan-Erik Solheim from the University of Oslo
- Ilya Usoskin from the University of Oulu
- José Vaquero from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
The only public comment that appears so far is by Jos Hagelaars.
