[C210N]

Needs a catchy name...

We’ve had Daltan Minimum, Maunder Minimum, Spörer Minimum and Homeric minimum.

What say you?

Algore Minumum? HockeyStick Minimum? ManBearPig Minimum?

[DuncanWaring]

ManBearPig Minimum.

[rockrr]

Oh I definitely vote ManBearPig!

[Red Badger]

The Inconvenient Minimum...................

[ETL]

We’ve had Daltan Minimum, Maunder Minimum, Spörer Minimum and Homeric minimum. What say you?

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From BBC News [yr: 2004]:
"A new [2004] analysis shows that the Sun is more active now than it has been at anytime in the previous 1,000 years. Scientists based at the Institute for Astronomy in Zurich used ice cores from Greenland to construct a picture of our star's activity in the past. They say that over the last century the number of sunspots rose at the same time that the Earth's climate became steadily warmer."..."In particular, it has been noted that between about 1645 and 1715, few sunspots were seen on the Sun's surface.

This period is called the Maunder Minimum after the English astronomer who studied it. It coincided with a spell of prolonged cold weather often referred to as the "Little Ice Age". Solar scientists strongly suspect there is a link between the two events - but the exact mechanism remains elusive."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3869753.stm
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[citizen]

They’ll try to call it the Global Warming Minimum, ‘cause they will tell us this time of cold weather is the result of our failing to deal with all the man-made, carbon fueled heat in the first place.
“It’s all fault of the Climate Change Deniers!!”