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Apparently we're to expect[^] a new Maunder minimum[^].
Admit it, you're just trolling your favourite troll. 
On a more serious note, this breakthrough in science means that we can predict the climate with a lot better accuracy.
<edit>fixed wikilink</edit>
modified 13-Jul-15 2:26am.
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*gasp*
but everyone knows that humans control the climate with c02- that's heresy Jorgie
Bryce
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I realize I probably shouldn't have posted that in the Lounge.   
So if you want a serious discussion  we probably should move over to the soapbox. (where I won't answer for a day or so, since I'll be travelling)
Otherwise let me just state my opinion, that in the big picture we still don't know sh*t.
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but a gazillion scientists cant be wrong!
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Because they never been before?
BTW I'm not a GW denier, I just believe there's a lot more to it than that.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: BTW I'm not a GW denier
Methinks he doth protest too much...
Denier! Denier! The Consensus cannot be wrong! Outcast! Unclean!
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: in the big picture we still don't know sh*t
But on the positive side, we have a slightly better way of not knowing it now
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Bye,Bye, Global Warming"!
Dave.
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I reckon Michael Martin can give you an appropriate definition of a Maunder Minimum...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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does it relate to beer?
B
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It's MM we are talking about- everything has to do with beer or Bundy!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Link fail.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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bloddy wikipedia links. 
Fixed.
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I tried pulling that one last year[^]. Bob still hasn't paid my heating bill. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
modified 13-Jul-15 7:42am.
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That's funny, Leslie never told me so.
Probably should've asked him.
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Somewhere around 2000 I remember reading about two different research groups that both created long term solar cycle models (none of the older ones attempted to go beyond one cycle ahead). Both did good postdiction of the 20th century and predicted that the most recent peak would be delayed and smaller than normal. One of the two had a similar prediction to this one that the few after would be even smaller; the second that the peak after this one would be closer to normal and the one after that would be normal.
Unless the back to business as usual model's been found to have a fatal flaw (that was never covered by any of the press I've seen), I'm going to take a wait and see attitude until we have some idea what the next peak will look like.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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On my tablet, I'm importing a lot of contacts - it's a long story - and it seems to have locked up on one of them. So...tap the "importing Sue..." notification in the messages bar and it gives me the option to cancel the import:
Cancel Import of Sue blah blah.vcf?
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| Cancel | | OK |
-------- ---------Now, does the "Cancel" button cancel the operation, or does the "OK" button cancel it?
Needless to say, "Cancel" cancels the cancel, and "OK" does a cancel.
What's so difficult about "No" and "Yes" buttons? Huh?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No, you are right
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OriginalGriff wrote: Now, does the "Cancel" button cancel the operation, or does the "OK" button cancel it?
Yes?
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Yes | No | Maybe
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Ignore it and the problem will go away on its own. Eventually. Maybe.
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Similar to what I heard during my first visit to the US about fifteen years ago -
"It ain't not work". Will it work? Will it not? Not sure (to me).
"It ain't not happen". Will it happen? Or not?
Have never visited the UK, so am not sure of this usage there. But, the English taught in India (in my childhood days, more than 35 years ago) didn't have such usages.
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When you hopefully finally visit us here in the UK, you will find that we do indeed speak the English you learnt 35 years ago. I visited the US many times during my time with IBM and I very quickly came to the conclusion that they speak American in the US. It bears as much resemblance to English as Brazilian Portuguese does to Portuguese. They both have the same derivative language but time has taken its toll on the way it is spoken today.
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Great. I thought so too.
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