True, but watch the sun my friend, watch the sun.
If it stays as quiet for the next 6-12 months or so as it has been the last couple of months, that is another Maunder Minimum, which means we will be heading into another Little Ice Age like the one we had around 300 years ago.
And to be honest, we're due for it timewise.
Total time-scale inaccuracy. The Maunder Minimum is considered to be 1645-1715. The Sun has been at the minimum end (rather than the minimum beginning) of the current solar cycle, hence low sunspot numbers. There have been predictions of a possible low-sunspot-number cycle following the next one, based on the "solar conveyor belt" speed. To be a sunspot minimum, it would have to be low sunspot numbers over a couple of solar cycles, particularly notable at the maximum stage of the solar cycle.
The Dalton Minimum was 40 years long, and the Sporer was 100-150 years long. So what happens over the next year does not indicate a minimum of this type. What happens over the next 6-20 years might.
