You said — IMHO I think that there is no coincidence that the earth has cooled slightly and the sun has gone dormant at the same time.
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If you look at that documentary that I posted up above and read up on on the scientific information about it, you’ll find out that it’s not the “heat output” of the sun that affects the earth’s temperature. No..., it’s a more *convoluted process* from the sun that affects something else that affects something else and then, down the line, it eventually has an effect on temperature of the planet.
It’s not what you might think at first. Most people think that... “Oh, the sun is heating up, the earth heats up, and the suns cools down and the earth cools down...” — but it’s not quite like that... :-)
The fact that the solar wind is off by 25% or more allows cosmic rays to bombard our upper atmosphere which in turn creates particles there that allow for more cloud formation. (This greater amount of clouds has a cooling effect all its own as it blocks the suns rays from reaching the Earth and its oceans and warming it/them.)
I don't know if you have noticed but this "summer" has been the cloudiest (and coolest) I can remember in my forty years of life on this planet.
Like I said, there is no coincidence.