The detective story began at Cambridge University seven years ago, when Tjeerd van Andel and a team of
paleoclimatologists started combing through environmental and archaeological data to try to solve an old mystery: Why did Neanderthals vanish from Europe 28,000 years ago?
We should prepare now for dangerous global cooling (By
Paleoclimatologist Tim Patterson, professor in the department of Earth Sciences at Carleton University in Ottawa)-- Excerpt: Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be
starting into its weakest Schwabe solar cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on Earth.