The more important part to your chart, imho, is that the decreasing sunspots also are indicators of a cooling period for the earth.
HOWEVER - the number of sunspots doesn’t affect the STRENGTH of a CME (coronal mass ejection) from what I understand - but it does increase the likely-hood of a big one, and also increases the chance that it might be headed in our direction. I believe earlier this year their was a very large flare - but headed away from us.
The following is a short article about this year’s past solar flares. It must have been the late October one that I had hoped to see the Northern Lights, but no such luck so close to the city.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/10/23/sun-unleashes-seventh-x-class-flare-of-2012
Sun Unleashes Seventh X-Class Flare of 2012
The sun is nearing its most active period, according to NASA scientists.
Does the sun always have that large cool dark area on the top?