More On The Dimming Sun

National Geographic notes the odd quietude of the sun. "[Global warming] skeptics tend to leap forward," said Mike Lockwood, a solar terrestrial physicist at the University of Southampton in the U.K. He and other researchers are therefore engaged in what they call "preemptive denial" of a solar minimum leading to global cooling." So now the warmists are the denialists. Whatever fits the AGW narrative I guess. I prefer this take: "There are many uncertainties," said Jose Abreu, a doctoral candidate at the Swiss government's research institute Eawag. We don't know the sensitivity of the climate to changes in solar intensity. In my opinion, I wouldn't play with things I don't know." In ten years we will know. But will it be too late to roll back the damage caused by the politicization of science?

Update: Kate McMillan's Small Dead Animals blog links to a useful graph showing CO2 as a percentage of the entire atmosphere. Just keep scrolling. And scrolling. And scrolling....