Whatever happened to the grown-ups section of Slashdot?

It disappeared a long time ago. I came back out of a fit of procrastination and had the reason I left confirmed by an article about "OMFG, they drank urine! LOL".

No. The sun has shown a slight cooling trend over the last 3 decades. Not only is the sun not contributing to global warming, it has had a slight, long term cooling effect.

Determining the long term solar trend
(There are numerous peer reviewed science journal papers referenced in that link.)