But you should probably hang on to that giant tub of banana-flavored Laffy Taffy because you never know. So if you were stockpiling Snuggies and cocoa for your ice-age bunker over the weekend because someone posted such one of these stories on your Facebook feed, now might be a good time to take them back to Costco. Particles in the air from volcanic eruptions may have been reflecting away solar radiation that would otherwise have been keeping the place warmer. The Morning Mix story also noted that Zharkov's solar model predictions were not yet part of a published study in a peer-reviewed journal, and pointed out that the Little Ice Age wasn't global and wasn't necessarily caused by the state of the sun at all, citing Scientific American article blaming volcanoes. The reference to a mini ice age in the presentation description wasn't a quote from Zharkova herself - and what's more, in an interview published July 14 on, the scientist said she never mentioned "anything about the weather change" in the presentation itself, though she does think there could be an impact on the climate. The Washington Post's Morning Mix blog, however, noted that the story seemed to have blown past what was in the original source. "#IceAge" even became a trending topic on Twitter. Stories ran places like UPI, The Daily Mail and The Huffington Post saying Zharkova had predicted the coming of a "mini ice age" or a new "Little Ice Age," referring to a famous temperature drop that occurred across North America and Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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