"It's just a thing, a Maunder minimum/maximum", all of the excuses the astronomical experts within the ranks of the climate change denier Orcs will throw out even as the Earth has been breaking temperature records, year after year, month after month, Al Gore!!! grr-gah-grrblesnarlspit!!
Here you have it, coincident to the beginning of the Industrial Age, the Anthropocene: Defined as "Anthropocene |ˈanTHrəpəˌsēn|
adjective
relating to or denoting the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment.
• (as noun the Anthropocene) the Anthropocene period.
AL GORE!!!! Watch the live graph here, Pilgrims.......
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