[Paladin2]

"This is highly unusual and unexpected"

Of course. Isn't everything that dumps on the lefty parade these days?

[Paladin2]

“If we are right,” Hill concluded, “this could be the last solar maximum we’ll see for a few decades. That would affect everything from space exploration to Earth’s climate.”

[gleeaikin]

Actually, what was being predicted 50 years ago when I took an astronomy course, was that in the next few years one of the periodic sun cycles, the 88 year one, would have us seeing drought conditions like the dust bowl/depression years. Incidentally, have you seen the Phoenix dust blows?