[StAnDeliver]

"Maunder Minimum of the geologically recent sunspot cycle was mentioned"

Of which, Maunder II could rapidly re-assert itself in the very short-term, much as Maunder I took a pause before basically wiping the spots from face of the sun for three score and ten...a continuing sum decline off the Mid-20th Century Maximum is a statistical inevitability....

[Eurotwit]

Some solar scientists predicted a while back that sun spots would be gone totally by 2015 or so. So far their prediction seems right on track. We might be heading into uncharted waters goes as an advanced society...