The x-axis was labeled “time” and the y-axis was labeled “luminosity loss.” The line was exponential, for sure. “This can’t be right,” I said. “It’s right,” she said. “The sun’s output will drop a full percent over the next nine years. In twenty years that figure will be five percent. This is bad. It’s really bad.” I stared at the graph. “That would mean an ice age. Like…right away. Instant ice age.” “Yeah, at the very least. And crop failures, mass starvation…I don’t even know what else.”
