But it's been pretty well canvassed that that doesn't produce anything you could rationally call a "mini ice age", hasn't it? Sure, it can affect the jet stream and thereby you could get a long period where arctic air is being pushed farther south than usual but it's not a global temperature cooling. It probably won't even affect most of the planet. Also my understanding is that this is mostly an argument based on correlation (i.e. "this happened in the 1600s) when the atmosphere was pretty different than it is today - not the least of which differences would be a bunch of volcanic ash in the atmosphere.
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