“The event is significant as many climatologists now believe solar magnetic activity – which determines the number of sunspots — is an influencing factor for climate on earth.”
That’s because the REAL SCIENTISTS are telling the CLIMATOLOGISTS they better wake up, and get the campfire going, because it’s gonna get colder for a while, if the sunspot activity stays absent.
I think you're missing an important fact:
It's been CLIMATOLOGISTS all along (most prominently, Richard Lindzen of M. I. T., but also others like Patrick Michaels of the U. of VA) who have been the most effective and informed critics of the "pop theory" of global warming.
Of course, there have also been climatologists on the other side. But whenever there's something like an alarmist global-warming petition by scientests on a full-page New York Times ad, you'll find that the vast majority are from non-climatologic specialties -- geography, biology, chemistry, etc.
Just finished a great book, “The Last Centurian”, by John Ringo. It deals with the coming COOLING quite nicely.