In response to my item from the Telegraph below about the big lightbulb in the sky, Planet Gore reader Patrick Higgins expects the doomsayers to start looking for the real culprits behind this so-called natural solar variability:

Look for these headlines soon:
HELIOSPHERE HAS BEEN SHRINKING SINCE THE DAWN OF THE SPACE AGE
HAVE OUR ROCKETS PUNCTURED THE HELIOSHPERE? SCIENTISTS WONDER
LEADING EXPERT: WE COULD SOON BE SWIMMING IN A “SEA OF GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS” — THANKS TO SPACE EXPLORATION

The next growth industry: government-funded studies on man’s interstellar footprint. Heh.