Another bit of evidence for cooling, not warming - from The Bellingham Herald:
Fall mushroom season starts early in Northwest
Pacific Northwesterners who forage for wild mushrooms are noticing that the late summer and fall delicacies are coming in early this year. Edible wild mushrooms are now flooding wholesale markets.
In the maritime Northwest, chanterelles are coming in at least three weeks early. In the Cascade Mountains, porcinis (aka king boletes) and matsutakes (aka pine mushroom) are poking up earlier than normal too.
“We’re already seeing mushrooms coming in that generally don’t show up until the middle of September,” Charlie Wiley, a commercial mushroom buyer in Southwest Washington and owner of Pacific Northwest Wild Mushrooms, said. “We’ve got pine mushrooms coming in. I can’t remember ever getting them in August.”
It is our sun that drives our climate and our sun is unusually quiet. Very low output. The solar wind hitting Earth's magnetic field forms a shield against cosmic rays and prevents them from hitting our planet's atmosphere. With this shield diminished, the cosmic rays are promoting cloud formation - providing nucleation sites. This raises Earth's reflectivity (albedo) and more of the sun's light is reflected back out to space.
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