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The Sun is central to everything in our existence; it is also central to our potential demise, for many reasons. It is a relatively stable main sequence star, but proxy records from antiquity indicate that its output has varied often over past millennia (Fig. 4.1).
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Cooke, A. (2012). The Variable Sun. In: Astronomy and the Climate Crisis. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4608-8_4
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