Is the sun cooling us down?
Monday, April 27th, 2009
A report in today’s London Independent suggests that over the past few decades the sun has quietened its sunspot activity, thereby cooling the earth, at exactly the same time as greenhouse gasses were heating the planet to dangerous temperatures. Is this pure coincidence, or could it be that the Gaia theory doesn’t just hold for the earth but for the entire solar system? How comforting and awesome to imagine that this system, and who knows, perhaps the whole universe, is a sophisticated organism, self-regulating and self-healing – much as our microcosmic little bodies are…?
