and the sun's magnetic field is declining...(needs 50 gauss for sunspot formation)...
can you say a new ICE AGE....
DING!
We’re in the depths of the deepest, longest solar minium in 100 years. Here’s some undisputed science for ya — deep solar minima are associated with cold weather spells and active solar maxima with warm ones. Look up the Maunder minimum and the Medieval maximum. All the so-called Global Warming data was collected during the Modern Maximum, and era of quite high solar maxima, which ended in 2004 at the end of the last solar cycle (#23).