Maunder Minimum Redux?

Maybe all this concern about cooling is justified?
Take a look.
http://www.space.com/23934-weak-solar-cycle-space-weather.html
The Little Ice Age coincided with the Maunder Minimum in solar sunspot activity of the late 17th Century.
Ice Skating on the Thames, Valley Forge, Greenland iced over and settlements gone.

Get the Lead Out.

The last lead smelter in America is closing.
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Antarctic Record Cold

The ice storm is our problem, imagine the problems for the Penguins? And here is something to consider, this record was set during the Southern Hemisphere summer. (Corrrection, the record reports were not current, but from older winter time down at the south pole.
I apologize.)
And it is 50 degrees below anything seen up our way. Maybe Siberia gets to -135.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/cold-dis-comfort-antarctica-set-record-1358

Cosmic Rays are Cooler

Ever since I learned from Fred Singer that cosmic rays increase cloud cover and that’s why sunspots make things hotter, I thought, I am an astrophysicist? Right? That’s why this is important for aspiring astrophysicists.
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Nobel Winner Dings Nature and Science Mags

Good news from Nobel Prize winner Dr. Randy Schekman.
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Let's Ask Dr. Spencer

JunkScience detectives can always benefit from satellite man, the wise and well informed Dr. Roy Spencer.
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Let's Talk Fallacies

This essay by JW Buckley is a wonderful exploration of a wicked development–dishonest post modern anti-science science in the service of political ideologies.
Yes Houston, we have a problem.
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Linear Non Threshold–Junk Science Exhibit 1

Linear no threshold (LNT) toxicology is junk science. But great for aggressive government nannies.
Toxicologist Ed Calabrese PhD of U Mass, Amherst, is trying to expose the junk toxicology that now is “consensus.”
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It's Over, Fat Lady Takes the Stage

What if I told you the warming panic movement had an empty tank? Was an empty shell?
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BRRRR, Y'all

Yesterday I made the second leg of a trip back home to Texas from Omaha, and in Northern Texas ice was 1 inch and more on the roads. The ice is so damn thick in the pasture that my horses look goofy walking around because they are scared of falling.
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More on IED Vehicles

There is some sort of blinker effect when it comes to compressed natural gas. Since it always is compressed in tanks and in writing compressed with “green” or “clean” there is a blind spot that is silly.
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Psych Unbound or Unleashed

There are few writers on psychiatry, social and cultural matters who can improve on the commentary of Theodore Dalrymple (the nom de plume of Anthony Daniels, a Brit psychiatrist).
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