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The danger that interracial comparisons will be inhibited by considerations of political correctness is less serious than that interracial studies will be wrongly used, yet much benefit could come from well-planned research.
The condition of the Sun in the seventeenth century suggests that reduced radiation could have accounted for the Little Ice Age, but there is only a small chance that a recurrence will head off global warming.
