From the OP's link:

>>"The Sun is in a changed state. It is brighter than it was a few hundred years ago and this brightening started relatively recently - in the last 100 to 150 years."

To the best of my understanding, the Max Planck institute is not a collection of woo-woo's.. (but it's amusing that people who say the same thing here are labeled thus)


The difference is one of scale. The woo-woo's think it's visibly changed color and the scientists are talking about well under 1%.