I'm inclined to think we are heading into a mini Ice Age, similar to the Dalton Minimum, which lasted from 1790-1830. Lord Byron wrote about the"year without a summer" in one of his poems.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_MinimumAlso, see "Maunder Minimum", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_MinimumThe sun is in a phase of virtually no solar activity, so, yes, I expect the climate to change but it's hardly anything humans can affect, one way or another.http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-257438069
@HollyHobby: The "year without a summer" in 1816 was the result of a massive volcano eruption in Indonesia. It followed a series of smaller eruptions. The combined dust/debris in the atmosphere shaded the earth, temperatures dropped and crops were devastated. This was the basis for the concept of a "nuclear winter" during the Cold War.BTW, since it was very rainy and cold that summer, many people stayed sheltered inside as much as possible. During a Swiss vacation, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and other friends challenged each other to write the scariest story. Shelley wrote Frankenstein, Lord Byron wrote A Fragment and the poem Darkness. A Fragment was then used as the basis for The Vampyre (written by another friend at the Swiss vacation), which lead to Dracula by Bram Stoker.So Lord Byron wrote about the "year without a summer" from actual experience while he sheltered from it, and Frankenstein was "born" during that summer.
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