[teeman8r]

I thought sunspots were areas of the sun that were colder... hmmmmm

[Alas Babylon!]

In fact, sunspots are cooler than the plain surface of the sun, but they strongly affect the solar winds and radiation coming out of the sun.According to Wikipedia:

Indicating intense magnetic activity, sunspots accompany secondary phenomena such as coronal loops, prominences, and reconnection events. Most solar flares and coronal mass ejections originate in magnetically active regions around visible sunspot groupings.

According to Danish scientist Henrik Svensmark, when there is less or fewer sunspots, the solar wind decreases. This allows cosmic rays from the overall universe to hit Earth's atmosphere and cause increased cloud formation, that reflects more sun off of the Earth.