[hoosierham]

Popular Science magazine of the 1980s had articles about the coming min-ice age;the Maunder minimum of the geologically recent sunspot cycle was mentioned.We have had an extended period of low sunspots for several years.

The alarmists are like the blind Indian men examining an elephant,one said it was like a tree after feeling the leg,another said it was like a snake after feeling the trunk, another .....

[Aevery_Freeman]

Fortunately, the Sun has once again become active, very active. I'm looking forward to warmer winters and an increased carbon dioxide level so plants grow better making more food for all.

C'mon Sun!

[StAnDeliver]

"Maunder Minimum of the geologically recent sunspot cycle was mentioned"

Of which, Maunder II could rapidly re-assert itself in the very short-term, much as Maunder I took a pause before basically wiping the spots from face of the sun for three score and ten...a continuing sum decline off the Mid-20th Century Maximum is a statistical inevitability....