“...that the sun is in a period of reduced output causing the the global climate to cool.”
Umm - it IS. Look at a chart that correlates temperature to sunspots. We were calling this YEARS ago. Personally, I think we are headed for a ice age. A REAL, 1 mile of ice over Seattle, Ice Age.
So do I.
Every time some damnfool liberal shrieks “global warming”, I wanna slap ‘em upside the head.
No ... at the most, I think it’s a “Maunder Minimum” type of “Little Ice Age” - of which we have historical evidence for. I would say this is a pattern that has been repeated in the past (and we do have a real example of it - i.e., the “Maunder Minimum”).
It would be better to have global warming, though - because even having a Maunder Minimum will mean mass starvation over the world. At least with Global Warming, we would be growing a lot more food for everyone!
I don't think we're heading for an Ice Age. We may be heading into a cooling trend. As I said up-thread, cooling would be bad: shortened growing seasons, more crop-damaging freezes, etc. If the price of food goes up significantly, many people in the Third World who are living on the edge will fall off the edge -- starvation, malnutrition, unable to afford decent housing or medical care because they have to spend all they have on food, etc.
The Third World will not starve quietly. They will want to come into First World countries and leach off their welfare systems, driving them into collapse. Read Camp of the Saints