Ice on the pond this morning. Ducks not happy, but not all that upset either.
That's because the ocean currents are turning colder, you see, and won't warm up until 2015. (Despite the inconvenient fact that ocean waters warm up or cool down BECAUSE of colder or warmer surface temperatures and air temperatures and solar irradiation levels, not CAUSING less radiation!)
Let's see: Cycle 24 - if it ever starts - should be about 11 years long. 2008 + 11/2 = 2013-2015.
But after 2015, Solar Cycle 24 begins to decrease, thus indicating the sun's magnetic influence lowers, causing less cosmic ray shielding, more cosmic ray interaction, more cloud cover, less net solar radiation received on earth, lower overall temperatures.
Solar Cycle 25 has been predicted to be a very low cycle - determined from low levels of deep layer sun currents by NASA.
So the global warming extremists are claiming that we will see lower temperatures from now until 2015 - then greatly increasing temp's after CO2 builds up.
Solar GW theory predicts lower temperatures for a little while before Solar Cycle 24 begins, then a short period of warming temps during cycle 24, then a period of lower temps between cycle 24 and 25, then overall lower temperatures during Cycle 25 - since Cycle 25 has been long predicted to be very, very low activity.