This is another “global warning hockey stick”. Take a look at the same graph, but go back 100 years. It’s convenient that they started in 1985.
The article is silly, granted, but it won't take much more of a drop to put us in Dalton Minimum territory.
Not drawing any conclusions and I’ve seen it back to the Maunder Minimum. There was no pattern like this before that but they seem to think it’s leading to another Maunder Minimum.